Physician Heal Thyself: M.D.s Earn Continuing Education Credit to Learn Yoga Poses |
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Written by John Weeks
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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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