Médecine alternative et intégrative

Post-graduate Education in Traditional and Non Conventional Medicine: Italy poised between National Guidelines and Regional Variants

Abstract

Tognetti Bordogna M, Gentiluomo A and Roberti di Sarsina P

The present article completes our research which first part has been published in AIM, being the very first survey about Education in Traditional and Unconventional Medicine within the Italian Schools of Medicine. The present data also go into the choice of titles for the various education options, our article considering both the undergraduate and post graduate education programmes in this field and deals with also the particular regional organization of Italian Regions in the field of Health which extends to Upgrade Courses, shows a growing interest by Italian universities centres even if where regional decision-makers are not explicitly in favour of TCAM. The article also explores the extent of regional difference and the indirect contribution the Regions seem to have made to the TCAM education courses on offer.