Advanced Graduate Certificate in Integrative Ayurveda for ABOIM Certified Physicians

Program Description

This certificate program is intended for physicians who are already certified in integrative medicine by the American Board of Integrative Medicine (ABOIM) or its international equivalent. The curriculum consists of all courses in the Fellowship MS in Integrative Medicine and AyurVeda for Advanced Practice Practitioners except for the resources in general integrative medicine that MIU offers to the MS students through a collaboration with the University of Arizona’s Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.

The Advanced Graduate Certificate’s curriculum in Integrative Ayurveda constitutes approximately one-half of the Fellowship MS degree curriculum. Participants in the Advanced Graduate Certificate will register for the same courses and study alongside students in the Fellowship MS program but will learn and be examined only on the Integrative Ayurveda component. Credit awarded for each course in the Advanced Graduate Certificate program is approximately half of the credits given for the full course in the Fellowship MS program.

This certificate program is not eligible for U.S. Federal Student Financial Aid.

Program Learning Outcomes

Certified and licensed integrative medicine health care providers who successfully complete the Advanced Graduate Certificate in Integrative Ayurveda for ABOIM Certified Physicians will be able to:

1. Develop expertise in the knowledge and clinical practice of Integrative Ayurveda, a whole system of Consciousness-Based health care including personalized prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and health promotion for individuals and society using natural modalities that embrace all the domains of health.
2. Facilitate the whole person health in patients and clients, including all factors that influence wellness and disease: mind, body, spirit, and environment.
3. Practice self-care so that the practitioner experiences whole-person health by engaging in behaviors and self-care practices that promote optimal health and wellbeing.
4. Demonstrate skills in relationship-centered care, which is a partnership between provider and patient.
5. Utilize all appropriate approaches, professions, and disciplines of healthcare, including conventional, complementary, and supportive methods.
6. Emphasize the most effective, least harmful healthcare methods to facilitate the body’s innate healing response.
7. Advocate prevention and health promotion.
8. Practice science-based healthcare that is inquiry-driven, evidence-informed, critical thinking, open to new paradigms, and combined with compassion. This approach considers the triad of EBM: best evidence, patient values, and clinical judgment.
9. Practice personalized medicine with medical decisions, practices, and interventions tailored to the individual patient.
10. Foster community, society, and planetary health.

Graduation Requirements

To earn an Advanced Graduate Certificate in Integrative Ayurveda for ABOIM Certified Physicians, certified and licensed integrative medicine physicians must successfully complete 20 credits in courses, clinical webinars, and two Residential Clinical Weeks on campus that are also required for the Fellowship MS In Integrative Medicine and Ayurveda for Doctors and Advanced Practice Providers.