Project Leads: Gabriella Danziger, Gabrielle Osher, Anna Haigh, Maya Frost, Dr. Melinda Ring, Dr. David Victorson (Northwestern University)

Brief Project Description, including Feasibility and Anticipated Impact:

In collaboration with the Osher Center at Northwestern, we established a medical student interest group to bring together students seeking integrative health opportunities and demonstrate how integrative medicine can be incorporated into education and practice. However, there is a lack of coordination between medical students and integrative health opportunities for career development (shadowing, education, etc.) at Northwestern and across Osher Collaborative sites. To address this, we aim to create and pilot test a scalable toolkit that equips medical student interest groups nationwide with the strategies needed to engage with integrative health. 

If funded, we will develop and test this toolkit across partnering Osher sites, based on a framework to establish and expand Integrative Health Interest Groups. This toolkit will have four key components: (1) creating integrative health shadowing opportunities, (2) offering well-defined research experiences, (3) designing curricula for hosting integrative health events, and (4) fostering collaboration through an online platform.

Estimated Budget Request: $20,000