Core Curriculum

HEAL-IM utilizes an innovative curriculum that provides a firm foundational knowledge of Integrative Health practices and domains during the first two years at the same time students are receiving training in conventional western medical practice.
HEAL-IM has undoubtedly been one of the most important aspects of my medical training thus far. The monthly seminars often touch on modalities of healing that are traditionally overlooked in the allopathic curriculum and I have personally had to deal with my own skepticism and bias while exploring the scientific basis and validity of treatments like biofeedback and traditional Chinese medicine. The engaging, hands-on learning is always fun, but I am most thankful to be able to apply healthy changes to my own life presently and keep a holistic health framework in mind for my clinical interactions. -Dawn Liang, Class of 2023
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HEAL-IM Yoga
"HEAL-IM has definitely opened my mind up to a lot of different things I’d never known or tried before. I am definitely practicing meditation and yoga more because of HEAL-IM. I also learned so much from the culinary medicine class and have certainly used some of the things I learned in that class to make small changes in my diet and expanded the list of recipes I use regularly."
HEAL-IM massage
"HEAL-IM has undoubtedly been one of the most important aspects of my medical training thus far. The monthly seminars often touch on modalities of healing that are traditionally overlooked in the allopathic curriculum and I have personally had to deal with my own skepticism and bias while exploring the scientific basis and validity of treatments like biofeedback and traditional Chinese medicine. The engaging, hands-on learning is always fun, but I am most thankful to be able to apply healthy changes to my own life presently and keep a holistic health framework in mind for my clinical interactions.” Dawn Liang, class of 2023
HEAL-IM massage training
"The seminar on OMT/Chiropractic made me realize that I will need to know my fellow care provider 'team" rather than trying to know everything myself. The experiential session was the highlight! I loved getting to try to techniques hands on with the instructors there to give feedback."
TaiChi Seminar
"I enjoyed the actual practicing/experience of tai chi with an instructor who walked us through each step and indicated what we should be feeling and trying to achieve."
HEAL-IM Yoga seminar
"I loved doing the mini yoga class at the end. It felt like a perfect balance of learning from a powerpoint and actually doing the activity. Practical hands-on activity was great and learning how this can help people from a skeletal perspective and neurological perspective. It was interesting and useful."
HEAL-IM Acupuncture
"I thought TCM and acupuncture were very useful to learn about, and hearing more about the rigor of learning TCM as well as how long it has been effectively used made me more likely to consider it."
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Culinary Medicine Course

Our Culinary Medicine course is a hands-on elective series of five modules that teaches first- and second-year medical students practical, hands-on healthy cooking skills paired with evidence-based whole food nutritional concepts. These skills will be applicable to the students' health as well as to future patients they will see with diet-related illnesses. 

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HEAL-IM Culinary Medicine

HEAL-IM students will complete a variety of nationally recognized, interactive, online, evidence-informed education modules through the University of Arizona Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (AWCIM), covering a broad span and scope of integrative medicine.

3rd Year Small Group Mentorship

Third-year students will stay engaged in the program with quarterly small group mentorship meetings with faculty and peers.

4th Year Integrative Medicine Elective

Fourth-year HEAL-IM medical students take an integrative medicine elective at the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute. This includes clinical rotations at the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute’s various integrative medicine clinical sites. During this year, students participate in small group activities, attend the Nutrition & Supplementation in Clinical Care Conference, and have the option to complete a training certificate in an integrative modality of choice.

HEAL-IM students learning various integrative health techniques
Rachel Rychlock is an acupuncture therapist who conducts remote acupressure therapy. Photography by Steve Zylius.

Additional Integrative Learning Opportunities

Learn more about our additional Integrative Learning Opportunities.

Additional Opportunities
Chef Jessica Vanroo conducts a demonstration during the grand opening of the Lois Eisenberg Teaching Kitchen at the UCI Health Family Health Center in Santa Ana on July 19, 2019

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