Integrative Medicine, part 2 – Research and Practice recording

All forms of IM share one key feature: they integrate the personal features of a patient in the diagnosis and treatment. This puts some specific demands on how you investigate IM therapies. Orthodox medicine research focuses on the effect on single clinical points such as the main symptom. IM uses more personal features and specific symptoms to evaluate the person’s progress and quality of life.

This day is divided in two parts: first we use some papers to learn how to read them critically; what is the aim of the study, and how this is ‘translated’ into a protocol, and what are the possibilities to unite a systematic protocol with the variety between participants in the study? And which types of study methods are appropriate to evaluate personalized treatment – with a keen eye on how a person develops in life?

In the second part we put this into practice, to score directly from our files the different data – symptoms, features, biography – in such a format that we end up understanding better what we are doing, and also can share our work with colleagues, and eventually do a common research project.

We will exercise with each other, so participants are asked to bring some case data, which we will insert in the personal format.