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Collecting Information About a CAM Practitioner’s Practice: A Preliminary Report of a Self-Interview Methodology

University of Kentucky, Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, Department’s complementary and alternative medicine curriculum integration efforts, welder{at}email.uky.edu

Hunter Purdy, RN, HN-BC

WaysMeet in Berea, Kentucky

Andrew Bentley

Lexington, Kentucky

To prepare allopathic providers to advise patients about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies, the University of Kentucky CAM curriculum integration project has identified and trained CAM practitioners to coteach, precept, and demonstrate their respective practices. This project is interested in integrating CAM practitioners as teachers into this university and has formed a multidisciplinary committee for advice. The committee has recognized the importance of increased understanding of CAM practices to enhance communication within itself and to decide to which CAM practices students should receive exposure. This article reports our attempt to create a CAM practice description, based on questions general to CAM practice and specific to a particular approach. Because there is limited existing systematic research on CAM practice characteristics, these questions may interest researchers conducting qualitative studies, especially those seeking an example of questions to ask CAM practitioners. We also believe this practice description will be of general interest.

Key Words: complementary and alternative medicine • practice characteristics • herbs • interview

Complementary Health Practice Review, Vol. 10, No. 2, 147-155 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/1533210105280369


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