BOARD OF ORTHOMOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Affiliated with the World Organization of Natural Medicine and WONM Universities Federation.
Integrative medicine is an approach to healthcare delivery that seeks to integrate the best of Western scientific medicine with a broader understanding of the nature of illness, traditional healthcare, healing and wellness. It can be easily incorporated by all medical specialties and professional disciplines, and by all health care systems. Its use not only improves care for patients, it also enhances the cost-effectiveness of health care delivery for providers and clients.
A practical strategy, integrative medicine puts the patient at the center of the care and addresses the full range of physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual and environmental influences that affect a person's health.
By treating the whole person, both the patient's immediate needs as well as the effects of the long-term and complex interplay between a range of biological, behavioral, psychosocial and environmental influences are addressed. This process enhances the ability of individuals to not only get well, but most importantly, to stay well.
Important elements of an integrative approach to health care include engaging the patient as an informed and empowered partner and personalizing the care to best address the individual's unique conditions, needs and circumstances. The integrative approach emphasizes prevention, health maintenance and early intervention, and utilizes all appropriate, evidence-based therapeutic approaches to achieve optimal health and wellbeing.
BOIM is an international hub for inter-professional education, collaboration in healthcare practice and client centered traditional and integrative healthcare. It provides certification to allopathic and allied allopathic and other licensed and degree healthcare professionals who are seeking to expand their knowledge and expertise in integrative medicine healthcare.
Certification under BOIM is not equivalent to an academic degree. Potential registrants must provide supporting evidence of educational standing and may be required to upgrade and be successful in a competency examination in order to be registered.
BOIM AFFILIATED SUB GROUPS
Traditional and Medical Acupuncture Practitioners-Ontario
Homeopathic Medical Practitioners-Ontario.
