Newsflash from CAMRN:

Online Conference Series: Complementary Medicine & Health Education

30th June - 1st July 2005

Combining Evidence with Best Practice

For health practitioners, educators and students The growth of complementary medicine (CM) in the last 10 years has been accelerating worldwide. In Australia, the United States and Great Britain up to 50% of the population uses CM regularly. In Australia we spend more on CM products than we spend on out of pocket contributions for pharmaceuticals. In the United States demand for and expenditure on CM has doubled in the years 1990-2000.

Despite this, mainstream education in the health sciences contains very limited content about complementary medicines. ACCMER is putting together a series of forums to provide an opportunity for a wider discussion of issues related to professional education and practice in complementary medicine. The forums are aimed at health educators, students and practitioners from orthodox, integrative and complementary healthcare backgrounds.

For further information please contact the Australian Centre for Complementary Medicine Education & Research on (07) 3840 6120 or Email: accmer@uq.edu.au http://www.accmer.edu.au/education/conference/index.shtml