The proven advances of Complementary Medicine from the legal and ethical point of view”

Integrative Medicine is a field of Health Sciences that is in full development in the most advanced countries, with a large percentage of the population using complementary or alternative forms of treatment at least once in their lifetime: 48% in Australia, 70% in Canada, 42% in the USA, 38% in Belgium, and 75% in France. 

The push for this approach is motivating its inclusion in public health services in countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Nordic countries. For example, 90% of pain management services in the United Kingdom and 70% in Germany include acupuncture among the treatments they provide.

In 1998, the European Union completed a COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) project on non-conventional medicine. With the participation of several government, including Spain, they attempted to demonstrate the possibilities, limitations, and significance of alternative medicine, establishing a common scientific framework, harmonizing legislation, and helping to control healthcare costs. The CAMBRELLA project, a pan-European research network on natural therapies, was launched in January 2010 and has been funded with more than 1.5 million euros through the EU's Seventh Framework Program. The working groups that make up CAMBRELLA focus on terminology, legal framework, patient needs, the role of natural therapy treatments in healthcare systems and research methodology. 

The World Health Organization expressed in this regard the explicit desire to incorporate Traditional Medicine on a global level in its 2014-2023 Strategy.

Know all the aspects related to the development of the laws that regulate the use and application of Integrative Medicine"

This postgraduate certificate in Ethical and Legal Aspects in Integrative Medicine contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features of the program include:

• More than 75 clinical cases presented by experts in Integrative Medicine and Health
• Graphic, schematic, and eminently practical contents with scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Diagnostic-therapeutic developments on assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in Integrative Medicine and Health
• Practical exercises where the self-evaluation process can be carried out to improve learning
• Clinical iconography and diagnostic image tests
• Algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the presented clinical situations
• Incidence in evidence-based medicine and research methodologies in Integrative Medicine and Health
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

A course created to allow you to access the knowledge taught in the most comfortable and simple way, in a totally personalized way"

The teaching staff is made up of prestigious and renowned Spanish professionals, including experts from the field of integrative medicine and health, with a long career in health care, teaching and research, who have worked in different hospitals throughout the country, developing professional and teaching experience that they deliver in an extraordinary way in this course.

The methodological design of this course has been developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts. Integrating the latest advances in educational technology for the creation of numerous multimedia educational tools that allow the professional, based primarily on the problem-based learning method, to address real problems in their daily clinical practice. This will allow them to advance by acquiring knowledge and developing skills that will impact their future professional work.

This program is designed around Problem Based Learning, whereby the physician must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the course. For this purpose, the physician will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in the field of Integrative Health and Medicine and other related disciplines, with extensive teaching experience.

A teaching staff composed of experts in the field will be at your disposal to guide you through the course"

A high-capacity interactive video system will allow you to take over the contents worked on in a practical way from your computer"

This course aims to update and acquire knowledge and practices in integrative medicine and health, through the use of a problem-based learning system, which will place you in real situations, creating a practical environment of high didactic effectiveness.

Current controversies regarding the use and application of Integrative Medicine in a course of high academic and technological leve

General Objectives

• Acquire the knowledge and skills required to assess the suitability of each discipline in the clinical setting, so as to provide quality care based on scientific evidence
• Acquire up-to-date knowledge of Health Sciences Professionals in the various fields of Integrative Medicine
• Promote work strategies based on an integrative approach and multimodal rehabilitation as a reference model for achieving excellent care
• Promote the acquisition of technical skills and abilities through an effective multimedia system
• Encourage professional stimulation through continuous education and research

Specific Objectives

• Review the legal context of the application of Integrative Medicine, how to assess risk and mitigate cases of malpractice
• Understand common ethical issues that arise in current clinical practice
• Understand what can be disclosed, to whom, for what reason and what is needed to disclose it
• Reflect on the need for academic and professional organization according to the regulatory framework of some European countries
• Discuss the right of the individual as a patient to free access to Integrative Medicine
• Define and differentiate the categories of drugs approved in the Spanish public system and in other countries
• Review access to complementary medicine therapies in hospital settings
• Address the need to bring Integrative Medicine into the Public Health System
• Reflect the reduction in economic expenditure and improvement in quality of life related to the introduction of IM
• Identify community resources and referral network for patients requiring specialized care

A course backed by the prestige of TECH Technological University, one of the most prestigious universities in Spain, with the most experienced teaching staff and the best online technology adapted to the teaching of scientific content"