October 18, 2005 – Students of medicine and health sciences at the University of Sherbrooke will now be able to familiarize themselves with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) thanks to the creation of the Chair for teaching the integrated approach in prevention .
Although it does not aim to offer specific courses on the different CAM, the new chair will make it possible to integrate into the training of the students “a learning program which will bring out different notions of prevention”, underlines Marianne Xhignesse, full professor. from the pulpit.
Nevertheless, students will be allowed to take part in continuing education activities or conferences that the chair will organize on occasion on different alternative approaches.
Receiving financial support of two million dollars from the Lucie and André Chagnon Foundation1, the team of the new chair intends to collaborate with partners such as the Teaching Chair on the Integrated Approach to Prevention at the University of Montreal, which was created on October 3, also with funding. of the Foundation.
The Rector of the University of Sherbrooke, Bruno-Marie Béchard, as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Réjean Hébert, were delighted that their institution had been chosen by the Lucie and André Chagnon Foundation. In addition to offering avant-garde training, this new chair will make it possible to set up “innovative learning methods in the field of prevention”, they argue.
The medical students of the University of Sherbrooke have already expressed their interest in CAM. Last March, they organized, on their own initiative, an information congress during which 150 of them came to hear professionals from different alternative approaches. The event then aimed to “promote open-mindedness”. The new chair will allow them to put it into practice soon.
Martin LaSalle – PasseportSanté.net
1. PasseportSanté.net is a subsidiary of the Lucie and André Chagnon Foundation.
