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In keeping with our commitment to fostering faculty/
student collaboration and student leadership,
The Global Medicine Education Foundation teamed with The American
Medical Student Association in 2002 and 2003. This collaborative
venture provided both students and faculty the opportunity to work
closely together, share ideas and expertise, and develop a program
that reflected the talents and vision of all involved. Because we
continue to expand our program in new directions, the Foundation
is currently offering a 2006 elective with a new focus (greater emphasis
on the interrelationship between ecology, environment, spirituality
and healing).
The Global Medicine Education Student Program 2006
is distinct but retains many of the elements and the spirit of our
previous curriculum.
Students
applying for the 2006 elective should understand that the basic day-to-day
schedule will remain intact and will continue to incorporate and
model a healthy lifestsyle through nutritious meals, yoga, Qi Gong,
meditation, living with nature, community building, and time for
personal reflection and creative expression.
To learn more about The 2007 Program in addition
to the information provided below, please visit our Media & Publicity page.
Please note that each day we will offer early morning
Qi Gong,Yoga, and exercise.
We will begin each morning session with a 20 minute meditation and
mindfulness practice, and a “sharing circle” to create
a space for listening to one another.
We will also encourage students to journal, pay attention to their
dreams, and share questions, insights, and constructive comments throughout the retreat.
Meals will be prepared by the students in teams. Students
will be asked to bring/create recipes that provide both healthy nutrition and possibly ethnic flavor.
Weekends will be free, with one optional weekend “Vision
Quest”.
Most evening are free, with creative arts options available: music, dance, drumming,
poetry, artwork, etc.
Class Times:
Morning 9 am – 12:30 pm (with
mid-morning break)
Afternoon 2 pm – 5:30 pm (with mid-afternoon break)
Sunday, April 2nd
Arrival
Evening – Opening Ceremony and Introductions
Monday and Tuesday, April 3rd –4th
“
Leading from the Inside Out”; Leadership, Communication, and
Team Building – Ron Kertzner, JD
The purpose of the first two days of our elective is to help our
students acquire skills that will not only serve them in the weeks
in which they live together as community, but in the days and months
to come of being in relationship with others, personally and professionally.
Creating the capacity for empathetic listening, learning how to have “difficult
conversations” and speak the truth while maintaining relationships,
listening to one’s own “authentic conversation”,
understanding “triggers/hotbuttons”, and developing awareness
of team dynamics and the power of “Collective Intelligence” in
building successful collaboration as a group.
Tuesday, April 4th, Wednesday, April 5th
Personal Ecology for A Healing Life – Pali Delevitt, Stephen
Dahmer M.D.
Self-evaluation and setting intentions for one’s own self-healing
and a sustainable lifestyle that promotes health and well-being,
physically, emotionally, spiritually. Establishing personal guidelines
for the month and for the future, essential to the well-being of
a professional health-care provider, including creating healing environments
to support the inner and outer life of the healer.
Wednesday Evening
The Aesclepian Dream Temples, and Dream
Time - Jonathan DeVierville, PhD.
The Aesclepian Dream Temples were a famous example of “Healing Environments”, and the Greeks understood the power of dreams to elicit healing response. Looking
at the historical traditions of “dreaming” as a healing instrument,
and the use of sacred space to induce healing potential, we reflect on how
to bring these elements into our own life and
healing practice. Students will be encouraged to keep a dream journal, share
their dreams, and consider how to create a “sacred space” in which
to sleep.
Thursday, April 6th
Environmental Medicine and the Ecology of Healing – Evan Buxbaum, MD
The burgeoning field of Environmental Medicine expands the allopathic model
of healthcare from a consideration of the individual, or too often just one
organ of that individual, to the broader local and global community in which
the individual lives.
How does our environment shape our bodies and our health? How does Nature or
the lack of natural surroundings affect well-being? How do the toxins in our
environment cause disease? How can Healers and Care-givers address the Environmental
influences on the individual’s health, and how can individuals help to
heal our environment?
Individual, community and ecological health as inextricably interconnected.
Friday, April 7th
Hands-on-Healing Therapies; The Body in
Balance – Star Urmstron,
Lic. Ac., LMT, Porangui MacGrew, LMT, Christa Fagan, M.D.
An experiential exploration of several hands-on therapeutic modalities,
including Massage, Polarity, Energy Healing, and Acupressure,
and a discussion of the differences of the techniques and their therapeutic application.
Students will get to participate in learning some of these techniques
and the discussion of their appropriate inclusion in patient treatment
protocols.
Monday, April 10th and Tuesday April 11th
Nutritional Approaches to Healing – Alan Gaby, M.D., Arti Chandra,
M.D., MPH
From preventative medicine to addressing chronic conditions, nutritional
approaches to health and illness are an essential part of healing.
Learning to take a good nutritional history, looking at potential “food
sensitivities” that underlie some chronic conditions, plus
the use of appropriate nutritional supplements will presented. A
discussion of “detox” diets as part of a program for
restoring health. Examining the value and limitations of various “diets” that
are currently advocated in the healing of both general and specific
conditions. Recommending the appropriate dietary regimen in a patient-specific
model.
Tuesday, April 11th
Documenting Homeopathy's Effectiveness In
Clinical Practice: A Video-Based Presentation Tracking
Patient Progress While Using Homeopathy - Malcolm
Smith N.D., Mitchell Fleisher, M.D.
Recent advances in the practice of homeopathy are now producing high
percentages of verifiable, curative outcomes in the treatment of
serious illness. Dr. Malcolm Smith will share startling video footage
of his patients before, during and after homeopathic treatment. He'll
demonstrate a technique used to identify the one substance in nature
that holistically correlates to the patient's presenting state of
disease. Students will then discuss the principles and practice involved
in taking a homeopathic case study, and the necessary follow-up.
Wednesday, April 12th
Herbal Medicine - Lori Fendell, P.A., Lic. Ac., MPH
The clinical use of herbs in the therapeutic treatment and promotion
of
radiant health and well-being.. Herb walks and local identification
of herbs
including herbal identification principles. Resources for the study
of herbs
including the historical usage and current research. Wild-craft-herbal
collection
and the preparation of teas and tincture.
Wednesday Evening
An Evening of Drumming, Music and
Dance
Creative/Expressive Therapies in Sound and Movement
Thursday, April 13th
Philosophies and Principles of Five Element
Acupuncture - Lori Fendell
Practical and clinical application of Five Element Acupuncture. This
ancient traditional healing practice creates harmony and health within
self and community as based on the Chinese perspective of Nature
and the seasons in relationship to the Five Element principles. The
role of nutrition from the Chinese perspective. Restoring balance
within the individual body and one’s environment. How does
Nature model self-healing that we can incorporate into our own lives?
Permaculture: Sustainable
and renewable ways of living – Lori
Fendell, Walton Deva, Evan Buxbaum
How do we live in harmony with the Earth? How do our actions, our
choices, our daily lives affect the environment in which we live,
and ultimately our health, the health of the community in which we
live, and the planet as a whole? What are the choices we can make,
the actions we can take, the principles we can put into practice,
both personally and professionally so that our lives, our health,
our human resources, and our ability to sustain all of the above
can be actualized? How is Global Health impacted by our seemingly “smallest” choices?
Friday, April 14th
Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Healing – Sylver Quevedo, MD,
Richenel Ansano, M.A.
Creating cross-cultural awareness, understanding, and competency
in the approaches to healing within community and cross-cultural
settings. The value, personal and therapeutic, of incorporating traditional
healing systems
in patient treatment. Healing from a Global Community perspective
with the consciousness of cross-cultural concerns that impact the delivery of healthcare. Exploring our own cross-cultural
issues.
Monday, April 17th
Chinese Medicine – Daniel Jaio,
OMD
And overview and introduction to the traditional methods of healing
that are practiced in Chinese Medicine, including acupuncture, tongue
diagnosis, pulse diagnosis, “cupping”, and the principles
and philosophies that underlie the utilization of these techniques,
including the nature of “Chi”, the Life energy, and its
role in bringing balance and healing. There will be both lecture
and experiential demonstrations of these methods.
Tuesday, April 18th
Ayurvedic Medicine – Dr.Reenita Mulhodra
Ayurveda is a 5,000 year-old healing system, whose traditional roots
are in India. An introduction and overview to the principles
and practices of Ayurvedic Medicine, and its current application
in western medical settings,
as well as its value for individualized approaches in the treatment
of health conditions and the promotion of ongoing wellness. Discussion of doshas, chakras, Vedas, nutrition, yoga, herbs, and
the goal of bringing the
individual into harmony with nature. Also, the role of meditation
and spiritual alignment
as essential to the creation of both harmony and healing.
Wednesday, April 19th
Spiritual Dimensions of Death and Dying - Betsy MacGregor, M.D.
Dying is a Universal experience for all human beings. It is also
the area most often shrouded in fear and mystery, especially for
those whose purpose seems to be to preserve life. Yet the passage
that is “Dying” also holds some of the greatest power
and potential for awakening the depth of human compassion and our
connection with our spiritual core. Through a series of experiential
processes and discussion we will examine our own relationship with
Death and Dying, the innate wisdom and compassion we each carry,
and the ways in which may transform our own lives and actions in
the presence of the profound journey that takes us beyond this life.
Spirituality and Healing – Fr. Sean O’Laoire’,
PhD.
What is the relationship between the nature of “Spirit” and
the nature of “Healing”? Is there a connection?
Is there, in truth, any separation? What is the “Cosmic Template” from
which healing emerges? What is the correlation between spiritual
practice and“
A Healing Life”? What has been your own “spiritual journey”?
Thursday, April 20th
Shamanic Traditions: Ancient wisdom, contemporary
application – Sylver Quevedo, M.D., Muz Ansano
Beyond recorded history humans have entered into special relationship
with the spirit of Nature and the nature of their own Spirit. The “Magi”, “Medicine
Men and Women, and “Shamans” of every culture invoked
an energy, a “knowing”, that they imparted to their community
for the purpose of spiritual awakening and healing. How does the
wisdom of these traditions still influence our cultures today, and
what may we continue to learn and practice that has relevance and
purpose in our own lives?
Thursday Evening
Shamanic Journeying
Using drumming and guided imagery, we will “journey” individually
and together via some traditional ways…
Friday, April 21st
Mind Body Energetics – Basil Segal, M.D.
Our bodies are the canvas of our lives. All our experiences, feelings,
thoughts, are held in our bodies at a deeper cellular level, and
reflected in our reactions, conscious and unconscious. How do we “read
the map” of our lives in our bodies? How do we alter
this road map that we have traveled when we are ready to go beyond
the boundaries of who we believe ourselves to be? How do we create
new and safe boundaries to insure that who are is held sacred? Through
experiential exercises we will explore some of the body’s “insights” and “knowing”,
and create new possibilities for ourselves.
Saturday, April 22nd
Reflections, Evaluations, and Closing Ceremonies
Off-site Synthesis – Choice of:
Faculty preceptor-ship at clinic of available faculty
Or personal paper or project on topic of choice relating to elective
Potential Faculty Preceptors:
Lori Fendell
Mitch Fleisher
Sylver Quevedo
Arti Chandra
Daniel Jaio
Mitch Krucoff
Michael Baime
Basil Segal
Reenita Mulhodra
Malcolm Smith
Evan Buxbaum
Stephen Dahmer
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