IM Faculty & Fellows

IM Faculty and Fellows

Wendy Kohatsu M.D. - Director of Integrative Medicine Fellowship

The fellow participates in a variety of clinical, administrative, educational, and self-care activities. We expect each fellow to graduate with practical skills in Integrative Medicine. In order to realize this, we allow ample funding for CME conference. This allows customization to meet the career goals of each individual fellow. We also arrange for specialized clinic time to practice these skills -- biofeedback, acupuncture, OMT, hypnosis -- depending on the specific needs of the fellow.

The fellowship curriculum begins with achieving competence in promoting lifestyle and behavioral change in the foundations of Integrative Medicine—nutrition, exercise, stress reduction, sleep hygiene, habits, interpersonal connections, spirituality. Basic supplementation, herbal medicine and an overview of complementary modalities for specific conditions are also covered, with specific emphasis as appropriate. The fellow gives regular Integrative Medicine talks, corresponding to his/her current educational pursuits.

In addition to the breadth provided by the core curriculum, each fellow is expected to choose one to two areas of expertise to explore in depth. This is accomplished through CME conferences, self-directed learning, interaction with faculty and community practitioners and is applied in their family practice continuity clinic.

The fellow serves as an attending in the Integrative Medicine Clinic, seeing patients along with their resident Primary Care Doctors, formulating treatment plans and being available for follow-up. The fellow also precepts in traditional Family Medicine resident clinics and participates in faculty inpatient medicine call.

This is a skill-based fellowship with emphasis on providing access to Integrative Medicine for traditionally underserved populations in a community health center-based residency program. The Fellow engages in a mixture of educational, administrative, teaching, and clinical duties. The goal is to create physicians skilled in the delivery and teaching of holistic family care while allowing personalization to meet the individual career needs of each fellow.

Upon completion of the Fellowship, the Fellow should feel competent to employ the principles of IFM in a wide variety of practice models.