Course Overview

The Future of Health Care: Salutogenic Science

Integrative Health seeks to transform our reactive disease-care system into a proactive health approach, acknowledging the gradual cultural shift and exploring how to co-create a salutogenic healthcare system for the future.
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2023 Annual Conference

October 6-8, 2023

Required Lessons

1 lesson with video, quiz, and evaluation

Time to Complete

40 minutes

Non-CME Eligible*

CME For this course has expired.

Detailed Course Info

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Course Description
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Course Description

Integrative Health was born to bring a better understanding of how to bring proactive health to a reactive disease-care system. Changing culture is slow and hard, but it is happening! We will explore this momentum and what we need to do to co-create the salutogenic health care system of the future.

Accreditation/CME

The CME for this course has expired, however you will continue to have access to your purchased content. 
For questions about CME credit, please contact us at https://www.aihm.org/contact/. The views and opinions expressed in this activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine and/or the Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine.
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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
  • Understand the financial incentives to bring a better balance between pathogenesis and salutogenic science in America's health care delivery system.
  • Learn pragmatic strategies of what salutogenic science will look like through reversing metabolic dysfunction.
  • Define the importance of inter-professional teams working together to solve complex problems and how this can bring meaning and joy to our work.

What's included in this course?

This course includes the following:
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  • Video Recording
  • Downloadable Audio
  • Speaker Handout(s)
  • Quiz
  • Evaluation
  • Certificate of Completion

Course Outline

Meet Your Faculty

David Rakel, MD

Dr. Dave Rakel, Professor & Chair of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin, has been a faculty member since 2001. Renowned for founding the Integrative Health Program, he received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award for excellence in care. Committed to accessible medical communication, he authored 11 books, including the Textbook of Family Medicine and The Compassionate Connection. His team transformed care in over 50 Veterans Health Administration systems with the "Whole Health" model. As editor-in-chief of Practice Update, Rakel offers insights on primary medical care. His diverse background includes private practice in Idaho after family medicine residency in Colorado, followed by a fellowship in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona. A Baylor College of Medicine graduate, Rakel's mission is bridging health, human experience, and environment.

Disclosure

No financial relationships with any ineligible companies to disclose.