Conference Report

摘要

The Forum and Exhibition on the Evidence Based Integration of TCM was designed to discuss the potential for greater integration of conventional medicine and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in key areas of pain management, sleep disorders and rehabilitation. The aim was to facilitate communication, research, cooperation and understanding of the potential benefits of TCM.More than 200 researchers, academics and practitioners from Australia and China gathered for the Forum. A welcome dinner on the Friday night attended by senior practitioners from TCM hospitals and the State Administration of TCM in China was a great opportunity to share experiences. Dr Ross Walker provided an entertaining and informative talk on the many examples of CAM being found to be effective - but, that time and time again these findings are relegated to the back page of the journal and fail to be integrated into 'mainstream' medicine, the upshot being that patients often