This document outlines assignments for an entire course on alternative medicine. Students will: 1) Write a paper defining key terms of alternative medicine and describing its categories and philosophy. 2) Complete charts on alternative medical systems, complementary therapies, and dietary supplements. 3) Create a presentation assessing credibility of CAM information sources. 4) Write a team paper examining regulation of CAM therapies and how it affects consumers.

1. SCI 201 Entire Course
Survey of Alternative Medicine
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Resource: NCCAM website located athttp://nccam.nih.gov/
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that describes an overview of CAM and its
categories of treatments. Thefollowingareasshouldbeaddressed:
Define the terms alternative medicine, complementary medicine, and
integrative medicine and clarify how these terms differ.
Describe how conventional medicine plays a role in these three terms.
Review the philosophy of CAM and how it relates to or is different from
Individual
conventional Western medicine.
CAM
Therapeutic
Modalities
Describe the five domains of therapies according the NCCAM website.
Paper
Research and describe one CAM treatment modality within one of the five
NCCAM domains and give an example of how such a therapy could be used
as an alternative therapy, a complementary therapy, and an integrative
therapy for a specific medical condition. Explain how each example meets
the definition of alternative, complementary, or integrative therapy and
support the rationale for each of your selections.
Note. There should be a total of 3 examples in the completed assignment.
Include the results of scientific studies, if available, that show a clinical
benefit from the examples selected.

2. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Resource: University of Phoenix Material: Alternative Medical Systems Chart
Team
Complete the Alternative Medical Systems Chart.
Alternative
Medical Describe or define each system, delineate the key principles underlying the system,
Systems Chart list several treatment types included in the system, and briefly describe how this
system differs from conventional Western medicine.
Resource: University of Phoenix Material: Complementary Healing
Therapies Chart
Team Complete the Complementary Healing Therapies Chart.
Complementary Healing Describe, in the first column, the philosophy and principles of therapy
Therapies Chart for each treatment modality.
Identify, in the second column, some of the potential benefits of therapy
for each treatment modality.
Resource: University of Phoenix Material: Dietary Supplement and
Herb Chart
Complete the Dietary Supplement and Herb Chart.
Discuss, in the first column, the various therapeutic uses for the herbal
Team
agent.
Dietary Supplement and
Herb Chart
Write, in the second column, a summary of some available scientific
studies that provide evidence for efficacy in any of the therapeutic uses
listed in the first column. If there are no good scientific studies, note the
absence of good studies.
List, in the last column, any potential side effects or possible adverse
reactions that could occur with the use of the herbal agent.
Individual Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation on a
methodology you create for assessing credibility and reliability of
Assessing Reliability and sources of CAM information. Include detailed speaker notes and

3. Credibility of CAM reference citations.
Resources Presentation
Devise 3 to 5 objective criteria to judge the credibility and reliability of
a source of information on CAM, such as a book, newspaper article, or
speaker. Research websites on a CAM therapeutic modality.
Review one of the websites and determine how reliable the site is for
CAM information, using your 3 to 5 criteria.
Describe how a consumer’s attitudes and beliefs about CAM
could hinder objective assessments of reliability and credibility
in CAM.
Demonstrate, in detail, how you reached your conclusion about
the website. Consider using a grading scale or grid for this
exercise.
Discuss what steps the website could take to increase its
credibility.
Present the Assessing Reliability and Credibility of CAM
ResourcesPresentation.
For Local Campus students, these may be (at the discretion of
the faculty) oral presentations accompanied by PowerPoint®
presentations.
For Online and Directed Study students, these are PowerPoint®
presentations with notes.
Write, as a team, a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper examining the current
and future role of regulation and oversight in the field of CAM therapies
Learning Team
and how it affects the consumer.
Regulatory Issues in CAM
Paper
Note. Your instructor will assign each Learning Team a therapeutic

4. modality from each of the five NCCAM domains.
Address the following for each of the treatment modalities:
The current regulations and oversights that exist in the United
States today
The organization that provides the oversight
Potential deficits of the current regulatory oversight
Potential adverse outcomes that could occur with the current
system
Proposal and rationale for a new or alternative regulatory process
Analysis of how the new plan would improve consumer
protection
Potential obstacles to implementing the new plan