Sisyphus Speaks 64: Should medical students be taught alternative medicine?




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Summary: CAM should absolutely be taught in medical school, but not as part of an " undergraduate curriculum for promoting treatments that are not underpinned by hard evidence that they work and are acceptably safe." but as object lessons on critical thinking, the medical equivalent of Scared Straight. Students learn valuable critical thinking skills by the examining the examples where it was applied so horribly wrong.