Contributions to advancing CAM may be successfully achieved with fundamental practices of medical research in CAM modalities and therapeutic principles/philosophies. The research must cover a broad spectrum of CAM therapies from physical to energetic, and practices from native healing principles to the practices of Oriental medicine. The research must also concurrently identify specific therapies and treatment regimens that are clinically valuable; this is critical to ensure reproducibility, reliability, and consistency of the CAM treatment for patient care application in clinical settings beyond the controlled environment of the lab and clinical trial sample populations.

SCNM’s ND program includes didactic hours and clinical hours in CAM. The faculty is diverse but with the common commitment to provide the students both the best of CAM (including newest reports from the medical/science community and clinical/empirical evidence and experiences) and rigors of a medical school. Appropriate and adequate student research training in CAM will address the diversity and the multi-dimensional aspects involved in designing and conducting CAM research.