Alternative/Integrative Medicine Focused Schools

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I've heard that Duke, University of North Texas, and University of Bridgeport have a stronger integrative medicine approach then other schools; is this true?  If so are there any other schools that you guys know of? 

 

Thanks in advance for any help

[taotaox1]

At Duke we had 2 or 3 days of chrios, chinese med, acupuncturists etc come lecture, with half of them bragging about how they treat the "whole" patients, unlike all us dirty allopaths. It was actually rather offensive, coming from a person who has no problem with much of that stuff in the right setting.

 

If you are looking for a school to make alternative medicine a daily or even monthly part of your training you are barking up the wrong tree. There is way to much to learn in way too little time. To my knowledge no school is going to give you more than a couple days of information and the occasional mention in lecture (usually in reference to drug interactions with herbs or a 1 liner on a pp slide about accupuncture). If you want to learn alternative medicine you should do that before or after pa school and not worry about that pa school is more focused on it. The difference will be a day or two of lectures at most i am sure.

 

Good luck!