The Research Crisis in American Institutions of CAM
The Research Crisis in American Institutions of Complementary and Integrative Health:
One Proposed Solution for the Chiropractic Profession
SOURCE: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2019 (Jun 17); 27: 32
Ian D. Coulter and Patricia M. Herman
RAND Corporation,
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A crisis confronts the Complementary and Integrative Health (CIH) teaching institutions in the US. Research infrastructure is needed to build and sustain productive research programs and retain their own research faculty. In most health professions, this infrastructure is largely built through research grants. In CIH, most educational institutions are funded through student tuition, which has historically also had to be the source for building their research programs. Only a limited number of these institutions have emerged as National Institute of Health (NIH) grant-funded programs. As a result, the American chiropractic institutions have seen a retrenchment in the number of active research programs. In addition, although research training programs e.g., NIH’s K awards are available for CIH researchers, these programs generally result in these researchers leaving their institutions and depriving future CIH practitioners of the benefit of being trained in a culture of research.
One proposed solution is to leverage the substantial research infrastructure and long history of collaboration available at the RAND Corporation (https://www.rand.org) This article presents the proposed five components of the RAND Center for Collaborative CIH Research and the steps required to bring it to being:
1) the CIH Research Network – an online resource and collaborative site for CIH researchers;
2) the CIH Research Advisory Board – the governing body for the Center selected by its members;
3) the RAND CIH Interest Group – a group of RAND researchers with an interest in and who could provide support to CIH research;
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