title: Teaching self-care: taking charge of your health.
abstract: Content on integrative healthcare and complementary and alternative medicine is being taught in hundreds of educational programs across the country. Nursing, medical, osteopathic, chiropractic, acupuncture, naturopathic, and other programs are finding creative and innovative ways to include these approaches in new models of education and practice. This column spotlights such innovations in integrative healthcare and CAM education and presents readers with specific educational interventions they can adapt into new or ongoing educational efforts at their institution or programs. We invite readers to submit brief descriptions of efforts in their institutions that reflect the creativity, diversity, and interdisciplinary nature of the field. Please submit to Dr Sierpina at vssierpi@utmb.edu or Dr Kreitzer at kreit003@umn.edu. Submissions should be no more than 500 to 1,500 words. Please include any Web site or other resource that is relevant, as well as contact information.
authors.affiliation: Center for Spirituality and Healing, USA. kreit003@umn.edu
authors.forename: Mary Jo
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Kreitzer
authors.forename: Victor
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sierpina
authors.forename: Louise
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Delagran
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000193:education*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008910:Minnesota; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods*