From Chinese Version of Integrative Medicine to Globalized Integrative Medicine: Impression on the 3rd World Integrative Medicine Congress

摘要

In the 1950's, Chinese medical scientists were trying to take advantage of both Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine in clinical practice. The integrated traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine became an academic branch in medical sciences. As more and more medical doctors were involved in the Chinese version of integrative medicine, an academic organization, the Chinese Association of the Integration of Traditional and Western Medicine (now named the Chinese Association of the Integrative Medicine) was established in 1981 aiming to strengthen the academic exchanges in Chinese version of integrative medicine. The World Integrative Medicine Congress has been organized by the Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine every five years: the 1 st was held in 1997, the 2nd in 2002 and the 3rd in 2007.