Integrative Medicine

Mindfulness and integrative medicine are woven throughout the curriculum at the Cherry Hill Family Medicine Residency. Primary care physicians have among the highest burnout rates. We believe that integrative medicine and mindfulness techniques are one way to help build resiliency and support the self-care of our residents. It also equips residents with techniques they can share with their patients.  The major components of this curriculum include the following:

• A Mind Body Medicine curriculum that is spread over the three years of residency, concentrated during behavioral science months. During these months, residents learn mindfulness techniques and participate in mind body groups with their classmates.

• Integrative medicine (IM) topics presented at didactics monthly. This includes learning the foundations of integrative and functional medicine as well as learning specific modalities to approach conditions like menopause, thyroid dysfunction, chronic pain, migraines and more.

• Providing consults at the Integrative Medicine clinic at Cherry Hill. All of our residency affiliated clinics can refer patients to this clinic. Also available at no cost to patients is a 6 week long a Mind Body Medicine group held once or twice annually.

Residents can pursue more in-depth integrative medicine training through our Integrative Medicine AOC.