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INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Majid Ali, M.D.
Course Description, Goals, Objectives, and Related Information

Course code and Course Name
    Integrative Medicine

Semesters
    Summer and winter

Type of class
    Combined lectures, case presentations, and discussion by student discussors

Instructors
    Drs. Majid Ali, Alfred Fayemi, Judy Juco, William Rea, Francis Waickmen, and Larry Yannick.

Required Readings and Supplemental readings
    See below

Course description
    Integrative medicine is defined as the practice of medicine that requires physicians to offer advice to the well and therapies for the sick that are safe and effective without any subservience to one or more schools of medical thought. The two parts of the courses (I and II) are designed to present the core philosophic principles of integrative medicine and health preservation. The instruction will cover in a broad survey of disorders of all major body organ systems as well as in major health hazards. Those principles will be illustrated presentation of case histories of patients suffering from a wide range of clinicopathologic disorders involving all major body organ systems (See the appended list of lectures/case studies.) The case histories will be selected from among those managed by the instructors in their clinical practices. Two or more students will be assigned to each case presentation and will be required to come prepared to formulate and discuss integrative management plans for individual patients. The course will also require the students to prepare reports for assigned projects for which they will graded.The materials covered will be taught over a period of two years in 24 practicum and case study sessions, each lasting for two hours and twenty minutes with one ten-minute break in between.

Course Goals
1.    To define health and teach methods of health assessment.
2.    To define the scope of integrative medicine from a clinical standpoint.
3.    To define the scope of integrative medicine from an administrative/management standpoint.
4.    To use case studies of patients managed by the teaching faculty for in-depth discussions of
        the pathogenesis, clinical diagnoses, and laboratory evaluation of individual patients.
5.    To use case studies of patients managed by the teaching faculty for in-depth discussions
        of the integrative management plans and expected clinical outcomes.

Course Objectives
1.    To give instruction in the core principles of integrative medicine.
2.    To give instruction in clinical and laboratory methods for assessing health and for formulating
        plans for health preservation for persons of different ages and philosophic perspectives on health.
3.    To conduct Practicums devoted to planning, organizing and managing "Integrative Medical
        Centers" for serving diverse populations as defined by governmental and corporate entities.
4.    To emphasize the roles of nutritional, metabolic, and ecologic factors in the causation of
        disease and therapies based on those factors for disease reversal and health preservation.
5.    To give in-depth instruction in the pathogenesis, clinical diagnoses, and laboratory evaluation
        of disorders of all major body organ/ecosystems employing case histories of patients managed
        by the course faculty with integrative treatment protocols.
6.    To give in-depth instruction in formulating integrative management plans that include the
        relevance and comparative benefits of all empirically recognized methods of reversing
        disease processes.
7.    To provide students a list of required reading to enhance the educational value of materials
        covered the 24 Practicums.

Evaluation methodologies
    Written examination, assigned project reports, and the general CUIM grading scale
List of lectures
    Appended
List of assignments
    IMC Project (Planning, organization, and management of an Integrative Medical Center using one of the options provided).

List of Case Studies and Practicums
1.    Principles and Practice of Integrative Medicine, Initial Patient Interviews, Organization of
        Clinical Charts, Designing an Integrative Management Plan Health Assessment and
        Essential of Clinical Diagnosis
2.    Organization of An Integrative Medicine Clinic (The IMP)
        (A project report by third trimester is a required grade for graduation).
3.    Spontaneity of Oxidation in Nature, Molecular Duality of Oxygen, The Oxygen Order of
        Human Biology, Oxidosis, Oxidative Coagulopathy and Lymphopathy, and Dysoxygrenosis
4.    The Pyramid of Trios of the Human Ecosystems: A Schema for Establishing Clinical
        Priorities in Integrative Medicine
5.    Laboratory Assessment of Health and Diagnosis of Clinicopathologic Disorders
6.    Digestive-Absorptive Disorders, Lesions of the Oral Cavity and Stomach
7.    The Battered Bowel Ecosystem (including various types of colitis)
8.    The Blood: Anemias, Leukemias, Septicemia, and Other Blood Disorders
        The Lymph: Oxidative Lymphopathy and Lymphedema
8.    Molecular Basis for Nutrient Therapies: Oral Nutrient Protocols
9.    Intramuscular Nutrient Protocols, Intravenous Nutrient Protocols, Oxygenative Therapies
10.  Diagnosis and Integrative Management Plans for Benign and Malignant Tumors, Part-I
11.  Diagnosis and Integrative Management Plans for Benign and Malignant Tumors, Part-II
12.  The Liver Ecosystem Including Various Types of Hepatitis
13.  Principles and Practice of Integrative Medicine, Initial Patient Interviews,
        Organization of Clinical Charts, Designing an Integrative Management Plan
14.  The Thyroid and Adrenals
15.  The Pancreas and Prostate
16.  The Cardiovascular System
17.  The Pulmonary System
18.  The Peripheral Nerve and Muscle
19.  Disorders of the Brain
20.  Oxidative-Genetic Brain Dysfunctions: ADD, Hyperactivity, Leraning Disabilities, OCD,
        Autism, Tourette's Syndrome, and Arrested Growth       
21.    Oxidative Menstrual Dysfunctions (PMS, Endometriosis), Hormones Receptor Restoration,
        and Hormone Precursor Supplementation
22.    The Skin, Bone and Joint Disorders (Including Trigger Point Injections)
            Organization of An Integrative Medicine Clinic (The IMP)
            (A project report by third trimester is a required grade for graduation)
23.    Integrative management Plans for Infectious Diseases.
24.    Anxiety, Sleep disorders, Panic Reactions, and Chronic Anger
        Self-Regulations And Spiritual Aspects of Healing

Required Readings

1.    Ali M. Oxygen and Aging. 2000 Aging Healthfully, Inc. New York
2.    Ali M, Why should you earn a degree in integrative medicine? What should such a degree mean?
        The Journal of Integrative Medicine. 1998;3:74-76.
3.    Ali M. Seven core principles of integrative medicine. The Journal of Integrative Medicine.
        1998;3:77-81.
4.    Ali MA, Ali O. AA Oxidopathy: The core pathogenetic mechanism of ischemic heart disease
        Part I. The Journal of Integrative Medicine. 1997;1:6-112.
5.    Ali MA, Ali O, Fayemi A, Juco J, Grieder-Brandenburger D. Improved myocardial perfusion in              patients with advanced ischemic heart disease with an integrative management program
           including EDTA chelation therapy. The Journal of Integrative Medicine. 1997;1:113-142.
6.    Ali M. Oxidative regression to primordial cellular ecology (ORPEC): Evidence for the hypothesis
            and its clinical significance. The Journal of Integrative Medicine. 1998;2:4-55.
7.    Ali M, Ali O, Fayemi A, Juco J, Greider-Brandenburger C, Carroll MA. Efficacy of an
            integrative program including intravenous and intramuscular nutrient therapies for
            arrested growth. The Journal of Integrative Medicine. 1998;2:56-69.
8.    Ali M. The use of high-resolution microscopy for in vitro evaluation of safety of injectable
            herbal extracts. The Journal of Integrative Medicine. 1998;2:70-72.
9.    Ali M. Ali O, Juco J, Fayemi AO, Grieder-Brandenberger C, Carroll MA, Baig MM, Radulescu C.
           Guidelines for intravenous therapies in integrative medicine. The Journal of Integrative Medicine.              1998;3:82-95.
10.    Ali M. Amenorrhea, oligomenorrhea, and polymenorrhea in CFS and fibromyalgia are cauaed
            by oxidative menstrual dysfunction (OMD-I)*. The Journal of Integrative Medicine.
            1998;3:101-124.
11.    Ali M. Oxidative menopausal dysfunction (OMD-II)*: Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
            or receptor restoration therapy (RRT)? The Journal of Integrative Medicine. 1998;3:125-139.
12.    Ali M.Fibromyalgia: An oxidative-dysoxygenative disorder (ODD). The Journal of
            Integrative Medicine. 1999;3:17-37.

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE SEMINAR/PRACTICUM
Number 1, January
Majid Ali, M.D.

Subject: Principles and Practice of Integrative Medicine
What It Means To Be An Integrative Physician
Cultivating the Clinical Sense
Physicians Observe Patients, Patients Observe Physicians
Demands of Acute Illness, Demands of Chronic Illness
Assessing Health

    Three Essentials of My First Visit With the Patient With Chronic Illness
        First, we will guide you and expect you to guide us.
        Second, we want to be free to recommend everything we think will improve your health and we
            expect you to be free to accept our advice or defer.
        Third, some weeks you do more and some weeks less. But stay on the course.

Hand-Outs and Reading Assignments:
1.    A copy of the clinical chart booklet in use at the Institute of Integrative Medicine, New Jersey and New York
2.    Ali M. The seven core principles of integrative medicine. J Integrative Medicine. 1998;2:76-80.
3.    Ali M. What should a degree in integrative medicine mean? J Integrative medicine. 1998;72-75.
4.    Ali M. A matter of passion: burdens of an integrative physician . J Integrative Medicine 1999;3:1-5.
5.    Ali M. The Seven for Stress. In What Do Lions Know About Stress? Life Span Press. Denville, New Jersey

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