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Medical Students - Undergraduate Medical Education

Our faculty provide education to enrich and cultivate integrative medicine skills for medical students and promote the value of treating the whole person. Using evidence-based perspectives, graduates will be able to address and counsel patients in the use of integrative modalities, improving patient care and satisfaction. 

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Medical Student Scholars Program (MSSP)

The MSSP in Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine is designed to broaden students' knowledge and experience in the fields of Integrative medicine and Lifestyle medicine to expand the students' expertise as a future physician and to promote self-care and wellness.

Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine Information Sheet
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Thanks to a generous investment from alumnus Stephen T. Turner, MD, COM75', the Osher Center was able to expand our Medical Student Scholars Program (MSSP) in Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine with three additional students this year.

Meet Our MSSP in Integrative & Lifestyle Medicine Students

2025 MSSP Students
2024 MSSP Students
2023 MSSP Students

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Medical School Curriculum Integration: Lifestyle and Integrative Medicine for Everyone (LIME)

curriculum integration leaders pose at faculty retreatIn 2023, the Osher Center for Integrative Health at UC, in partnership with the UC College of Medicine and with support from the Dean’s office, received grant funding from the Weil Foundation to integrate a new longitudinal wellness thread into the medical school curriculum focused on integrative and lifestyle medicine. The thread has been integrated into existing required coursework for all 1st and 2nd year medical students, transforming the way our medical school is positioned as a leader in advancing integrative and lifestyle medicine education and prevention for the next generation and has expanded UC medical students’ breadth of core competencies and evidence-based treatment options to empower them to be at the forefront of an emerging value-based care and prevention model in the approach to chronic disease.

Graduate Medical Education: Residency Education

The Osher Center for Integrative Health at UC has received grant funding from the Weil Foundation to create and implement a micro-learning pilot to increase knowledge and use of whole person care in residency education, beginning with a proposed pilot within the UC Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine in 2025/2026.

jennifer molanoLeading this project will be Jennifer Molano, MD, Professor, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine; Osher Collaborative Faculty Fellow. Dr. Molano says, "As I went through the Osher Integrative  Medicine Faculty Fellowship in 2023-24, I wondered how we can offer a primer on whole person care to residents in a way that is respectful of the variable and already packed schedules that they already have.  This pilot is designed to address both of these areas."

This new micro-learning curriculum will provide learners with tools to implement a whole-person health care plan for their patients and can transform the way our healthcare workforce is positioned as leaders in advancing integrative medicine education and practice. While many comprehensive curricula in whole-person and lifestyle medicine exist, they often require 2-3 years for implementation. The proposed virtual micro-learning videos can enhance any specialty residency curriculum, with the goal of piloting the videos in neurology. 

The benefits of whole person healthcare as a foundation of patient care, self-care and general well-being will ripple out into all areas of study and professional practice, with the potential to affect a system-wide cultural change and eventual policy shift that further makes the case for supporting integrative medicine, prevention and whole person healthcare education as a value-based care model.

Both the Weil Foundation and the Osher Center at UC are keenly focused on advancing integrative medicine education, and we strive to reach as many learners as possible through our programs, including student wellness retreats, interprofessional mind-body skills courses, on-campus mindful moment sessions, lectureships, and more. One of our overarching academic goals is to incorporate integrative medicine into the required medical school curriculum and into educational opportunities for our community. This curriculum integration is the next step toward increasing the visibility and availability of lifestyle and integrative medicine education for the GME/resident population, the future of healthcare.

Student Interest Groups & Wellness

Integrative Medicine Medical School Electives

Mind-Body Medicine Fourth Year Elective
Planetary Health and Medicine Online Fourth Year Elective
M3/M4 Narrative Medicine Course

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Medical Sciences Building Suite 4358
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Cincinnati, OH 45267-0582

Mail Location: 0582
Phone: 513-558-2310
Email: osher.integrative@uc.edu