AIHM Social Impact Program Brochure

Join Us in Creating a Social Impact for Healthcare

Areas of Need The current health care crisis demands that we shift the clinical system of care from one of disease management to one of health creation. The AIHM Interprofessional Fellowship in Integrative Health and Medicine is a 1,000-hour, 2-year hybrid educational program for clinicians. It leads many eligible MDs/DOs to national board certification and it offers a way to contribute to the paradigm shift.

Educating the Workforce to Transform Healthcare Educating Clinicians of the Future To create a future interprofessional workforce ready to lead systems of health creation, we need to train all clinicians. By partnering with AIHM, your generous donations will help manifest this transformation by providing scholarships to all of our educational programs.

Social Impact Clinical Scholarships This program awards scholarships to clinicians working specifically in underserved communities to ensure they are trained in the skills necessary to bring integrative health and medicine to all. Only then, will we transform the way clinicians practice while addressing accessibility and health disparities.

Š Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine | aihm.org/impact

Our Commitment Since our inception, AIHM has awarded more than $700,000 in scholarships to clinicians, enhancing the education and training of 200 fellows in the workforce. Collectively, those providers contribute to over one million patient visits per year.

But this is not enough.

In 2019, AIHM focused its commitment to expanding access to care in underserved communities by launching the AIHM Social Impact Clinical Scholars Program, which provides scholarships to clinicians working in those communities.

AIHM has provided direct grants totaling $576,000 to our clinical scholars. Become a partner and join us in our commitment of bringing integrative health and medicine to all.

Join us in providing scholarships to interprofessional clinicians globally to transform healthcare

AIHM Social Impact Partners

We cannot change health care unless we change the way clinicians are trained.

The Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine is uniquely poised to lead that charge.�

Mimi Guarneri, MD, FACC, ABOIM, Founding President

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Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine

AIHM Core Values The Healing Power of Love. Holistic healthcare practitioners strive to meet the patient with grace, kindness, acceptance, and spirit without condition, as love is life’s most powerful healer.

Optimal Health is the primary goal of the practice of holistic health and medicine. It is the conscious pursuit of the highest level of functioning and balance of the physical, environmental, mental, emotional, social and spiritual aspects of human experience, resulting in a dynamic state of being fully alive. This creates a condition of well-being regardless of the presence or absence of disease. This is the pursuit of health creation.

Wholeness. Holistic healthcare practitioners view people as the unity of body, mind, spirit and the systems in which they live.

Prevention and Treatment. Holistic healthcare practitioners promote health, prevent illness and help raise awareness of dis-ease in our lives rather than merely managing symptoms. A holistic approach relieves symptoms, modifies contributing factors, and enhances the patient’s life system to optimize future well-being.

Innate Healing Power. All people have innate powers of healing in their bodies, minds and spirits. Holistic healthcare practitioners evoke and help patients utilize these powers to affect the healing process.

Integration of Healing Systems. Integrative practitioners embrace the use of all appropriate global healing traditions and integrative healthcare strategies, disciplines, systems and healthcare professionals for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease. We embrace collaborative care among providers and between disciplines.

Relationship-Centered Care. The ideal practitioner-patient relationship is a partnership, which encourages patient autonomy, and values the needs and insights of both parties. The quality of this relationship is an essential contributor to the healing process.

Individuality. Holistic healthcare practitioners focus patient care on the unique needs and nature of the person who has an illness rather than the illness that has the person.

Teaching by Example. Holistic healthcare practitioners continually work toward the personal incorporation of the principles of holistic health, which then profoundly influence the quality of the healing relationship.

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