1. Luann Drolc Fortune, PhD Saybrook University October 25, 2016
Suitability of eLearning:
Addressing the Shift to Integrative Medicine
Luann Drolc Fortune, PhD Saybrook University October 25, 2016 .

2. Integrative Medicine & Healthcare
Global shift to a new model of wellness
In the US: Encouraged by new national healthcare
Departure from conventional service delivery models
Refocus from treating pathology to preventive measures
Elevating wellness to a priority: Optimal human performance and experience

3. What is Integrative Medicine?
Integrates the concepts of holistic wellness and complementary medicine into healthcare systems, research, and professional practices.
Challenge: How to best apply these principles in health services & communities.
Involves both a structure and components.
What is Integrative Medicine?
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5. Integrative Medicine Structure: Prevention and Healing
Patient-Centeredness
Holistic: Mind-body-spirit
Multi-disciplinary
Multiple specialties
Coordinated teams
Contextual:
Culture
History
Values
Shift responsibility to patient

6. The Interprofessional Model
Multi-disciplinary coordinated teams of practitioners include physicians, nurses, behavioral health providers, nutritionists, health coaches, and complementary medicine specialists.
Decision making is collaborative with the patient being the ultimate decision maker.
Models for practice are evolving

7. Integrative Medicine Components “Complementary” treatments-Life Style Medicine
Nutrition
Life style coaching
Exercise & movement
Manipulation:
massage, chiropractic
Acupuncture
Mind-body techniques
Meditation
Biofeedback
Hypnosis
Guided Imagery, etc

8. “Lifestyle medicine is a branch of evidence-based medicine in which comprehensive lifestyle changes (including nutrition, physical activity, stress management, social support and environmental exposures) are used to prevent, treat and reverse the progression of chronic diseases by addressing their underlying causes.”
(Sagner, Katz, et al., 2014, definition endorsed by The American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the Australian Lifestyle Medicine Association and the European Society of Lifestyle Medicine).

10. Instructional Demands
Additional training for healthcare professionals and medical practitioners
New roles, e.g. healthcare coach, nutritionist
Research: Evidence for best practices
Explanatory studies: identify mechanisms
Exploratory scholarship: develop frameworks
Each of these requires
Technical training
Scholarly knowledge acquisition
Developing translational researchers
Multi-disciplinary collaboration to draw from multiple traditions and modalities

11. Who is Trained and How U.S.: Self-selected & market driven
Increasing demand for technical knowledge: higher base levels of education credentials
Multiple public & private institutions
Graduate programs geared to healthcare workers
Vast majority offer training for certification
For integrative medicine
Graduate education augments primary knowledge
Increasing number of medical school programs
Need is stratified and geographically distributed
Well suited to eLearning hybrid environments

12. Emerging Strategies and Instructional Approaches
Graduate & post-graduate programs (apprx 100)
Hybrid Learning: Combine online & residential
Saybrook Univ: Humanistic research Institute
Adult Learning Pedagogy: Andragogy
Scholar-Practitioner knowledge development
Programs: Structured to independent learning
Curriculum: Demanding, didactic, research-based
Technology: Sophisticated, flexible, interactive
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13. Saybrook University College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences
“Reviving the spirit and transforming the practice of medicine, the College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences emphasizes an integrative and humanistic approach for all healthcare.”
Unique as a research institute, non-medical school program in integrative medicine
Accredited master’s and doctoral degrees in mind- body medicine, nutrition, and healthcare coaching
Non-Degree Certifications
Certificate in Integrative Wellness Coaching
Certificate in Biofeedback and Neurofeedback
Certificate in Clinical and Applied Hypnosis
Certificate in Integrative and Functional Nutrition
Professional training for a new community of healthcare professionals.

14. Implications for Healthcare Leaders
Determining needs
Thinking beyond treatments to structures and models of healthcare services
Shifting paradigms
Obtaining appropriate training
Education beyond protocols: leadership
Pedagogy
Instructional Design
Creating dynamic educational experience
Operationalization
Technical effectiveness
Integration of newly trained professionals and their knowledge
Considerations for Educators
Considerations for Medical Practitioners

15. Pioneers in the field of integrative medicine are paving the way for others and requires courage and passion. Systems theory and complex adaptive systems suggest a spirit of innovation, experimentation. and opportunistic sharing.
Future Applications

16. Thank you for allowing me to share.
Luann Drolc Fortune, PhD
Saybrook University