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Physician Heal Thyself: M.D.s Earn Continuing Education Credit to Learn Yoga Poses

Written by John Weeks

Physician Heal Thyself: M.D.s Earn Continuing Education Credit to Learn Yoga Poses

Satkarin Khalsa, MDs: removes a barrier to sel-care

Satkarin Khalsa, MD, has delivered yoga programs for medical doctors for years. This year the director of Alberquerque Integrated HealthMedicine scored a breakthrough. Her doctor students were able to earn continuing medical education credit (CME) for learning how to practice yoga. For patients of integrative medical doctors as well as their more conventionally-minded colleagues, the affirmation of Khalsa's educational program by the American Academic of Family Physicians (AAFP) decision was a breakthrough. Yet the more important impact may be on health care reform measures: the health of physicians themselves, and the ways that mindfulness can shift empathy, teamwork and practice. (Click here to read for the remainder of the article at the Huffington Post.)

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