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Students in the integrative medicine program will receive dual degrees: 1) an MD in conventional medical practice from St. Martinus University Faculty of Medicine in Curacao and 2) an MS in Maharishi AyurVeda and Integrative Medicine from MUM.
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by Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa, USA, The Review
27 March 2015
After seeking for years to offer a medical degree, Maharishi University of Management (MUM) will begin collaborating in the coming academic year with a modern medicine school to provide a medical degree in integrative medicine.
Students in the program will receive dual degrees: 1) an MD in conventional medical practice from St. Martinus University Faculty of Medicine in Curacao and 2) an MS in Maharishi AyurVeda and Integrative Medicine from MUM. The four-year curriculum will integrate the two approaches to medicine, with one class period per day on natural and traditional medicine.
MUM faculty will travel to Curacao in the Caribbean to teach onsite; in addition, MUM will be hiring a new faculty member who will be based in Curacao.
"The students will receive a high level of training in science and in evidence-based approaches to both types of medicine," said Robert Schneider, MD, FACC, dean of MUM's Maharishi College of Perfect Health. "They will be well qualified to fill the increasing number of job openings in integrative medicine clinics and centers in the U.S."
Students who enroll in the program will spend their first two years at the St. Martinus campus studying the basic science courses of medicine. In their third and fourth years, they will rotate through American hospitals for clinical training in specialties such as internal medicine, surgery, family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, and psychiatry. One of their rotations will be the MUM campus clinic directed by Dr. Jim Davis. During the clinical rotations, students will continue their studies to integrate modern medical and natural medical practices via ongoing teleseminars with MUM faculty.
"St. Martinus has a strong track record of training doctors who subsequently practice in the U.S. and Canada," Dr. Schneider said. "Approximately 97% of their graduates obtain residencies in North America, which is a common measure of success for a medical school. A residency is the last step before licensure."
Dr. Schneider said that the MUM/SMU program in integrative medicine is unique, and that he feels the integrative medicine specialty will be in great demand whether the graduates pursue clinical practice, academics, or public service/policy.
As the students learn facets of conventional medicine, such as the organ system, each day they'll spend one class learning how that correlates with Maharishi AyurVeda. The class will also include introductions to other traditional systems.
For example, they'll learn to treat high blood pressure with pharmaceuticals in their conventional education, and then in their integrative medicine study they'll learn nondrug methods such as the Transcendental Meditation technique and other approaches.
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