A Survey of Medical Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Urmia, Iran

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This is the first investigation that assessed the views of medical students about complementary and alternative medicine in West Azerbaijan, Iran. The participants showed interest in inclusion of complementary and alternative medicine concepts in the medical curriculum. There appears a necessity to integrate complementary and alternative medicine into the medical curriculum due to current trends of integrative medicine and holistic attitude toward patient care. Taking expectations and feedbacks of medical students into consideration would help us take newer approaches in the improvement of the existing curriculum and apply them in educational regulations

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