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Professional education in complementary and alternative medicine: challenges for the public universities

  • Marilene Cabral do Nascimento
  • Valéria Ferreira Romano
  • Ana Claudia Santos Chazan
  • Carla Holandino Quaresma
  • Marilene Cabral do Nascimento

    Universidade Federal Fluminense, Centro de Ciências Médicas, Instituto de Saúde da Comunidade, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

    Valéria Ferreira Romano

    Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Medicina de Família e Comunidade, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil

    Ana Claudia Santos Chazan

    Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Departamento de Medicina Integral, Familiar e Comunitária, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

    Carla Holandino Quaresma

    Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Faculdade de Farmácia, Departamento de Medicamentos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.



Abstract

Legitimated by the World Health Organization, Complementary and Alternative Medicine have shown an increasing demand in the Western world. Professional training is considered one of it’s biggest challenges to its advance in the Brazilian National Health System. The descriptive quantitative study presents the availability of modules of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in six public institutions of higher education at the state of Rio de Janeiro, 2014, identified on these respective websites and secretariat, and classified according to the variables: institutions of higher education, health subarea, level of education (undergraduate and graduate), subtopics of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Meditation etc.); Format (mandatory, elective or optional) and content (informative or formative). The results shows an offer of 56 modules distributed in almost all sub-areas of health care, mainly in Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing, with a predominantly optional and informative approach. The main themes are Homeopathy, Meditation and Body Practices. The analysis of this offer, based on the perspective of integral care and referenced in national and international literature, points out challenges for the expansion and qualification of the teaching of Integrative and Complementary Practices, among them the integrated insertion in health courses aiming at the interaction and complementarity between knowledge.

Keywords

complementary and alternative medicine,
complementary therapies,
professional education in health care,
medical rationalities,
integrality in health

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