What are the policy and regulatory issues regarding licensing and certifying CAM practitioners?
The answers to these questions and the information generated by the IOM panel of leading scholars drawn from both conventional medicine and CAM, and from education, should serve to complement the recommendations of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy released earlier this year. The agencies that are co-sponsoring the IOM study include: • Agency for Health Care Research and Quality • John E. Fogarty International Center • National Cancer Institute • National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine • National Center for Research Resources • National Institute on Aging • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases • National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development • National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases • National In
