Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Special Interest Group (SIG)
Medical Library Association (MLA)
Visit the CAMSIG wiki to view selected CAM information sources
The CAM SIG is co-sponsoring the following section programs:
PH/HA Section: Teamwork for EBP: Collaboration for Improving Evidence-Based Practice. CAM, EBM/CL SIG.
This session focuses on all varieties of collaboration to achieve successful evidence-based practice.
This would be contributed papers that aim to include recounts of personal triumphs in collaborating outside the library as well as
detailed how-to strategies for collaborating with other organizations to help improve their practice (larger-scale efforts)
and/or collaborating with doctors, nurses, and public health professionals to help improve their research/work (smaller-scale efforts).
Hospital Libraries Section: Librarian as MVP of the Patient Safety Team.
As health information professionals, we are poised to become the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Patient Safety team at our institutions.
This program will explore ways in which we can align ourselves with patient safety issues and use our knowledge management skills to help to
prevent diagnostic errors and to provide the evidence necessary to inform decision-making by the team and by the entire hospital community.
Pharma Section: Interprofessional Education and collaboration. Dental Section and Public Health Section; MLES, CAM SIG, EMBASE.
Medical Informatics Section: Loading the bases: Teaching with technology and multimedia. CAM SIG, LIC SIG, OL SIG, Outreach SIG
This session focuses on the incorporation of technology and multimedia with on-site and distance education efforts, as well as technology-focused instruction. This includes the use of audience response systems and other in-class technological tools, screencasting, interactive tutorials and gaming systems, integrating social media into live and asynchronous instruction, and approaches to teaching technology to peers and patrons
What is complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)??
CAM encompasses a large group of therapeutic and diagnostic disciplines that are not usually taught or used in Western or US medical schools or hospitals and exist primarily outside mainstream health care institutions. Also referred to as Alternative Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) or Integrative Medicine, it includes a large number of practices and systems of health care that, for a variety of cultural, social, economic, or scientific reasons, have not been adopted by mainstream Western medicine.
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Officers
Co-Conveners
| Term |
Co-Conveners |
| 2012 -- 2013 |
Mariana Lapidus, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston and
Amanda Page, Countway Library of Medicine, HMS, Boston |
| 2011 -- 2012 |
Marilyn Rosen and
Sue Gray |
| 2010 -- 2011 |
Marilyn Rosen and
Lilian Hoffecker |
| 2008 -- 2010 |
Mariana Lapidus and Ruthann Gildea |
| 2006 -- 2007 |
Ruthann Gildea,Butler Hospital, Providence Rhode Island |
| 2006 -- 2007 |
Mariana Lapidus, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston |
| 2005 -- 2006 |
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| 2005 -- 2006 |
Marilyn Rosen, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester NY |
| 2004-- 2005 |
Julia Whelan Mass. General Hospital, Boston |
| 2004-- 2005 |
Marilyn Rosen, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY |
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MLA Program Coordinators:
- Marilyn Rosen 2007
- Julia Whelan 2006
- Ruthann Gildea 2005
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