While other graduate programs for healthcare professions are doubling, our professional programs are declining and closing.

Advancing Complementary and Alternative Medicine Professions: Practitioners Face Many Policy Hurdles to Finding Their Place in Mainstream Medicine

The policy challenges associated with coverage, licensure, scope of practice, institutional privileges, and research may prevent complementary and alternative medicine professionals from practicing to the full extent of their capabilities.

Common models of entry level competencies and entrustable  professional activities offer clear guidance for curriculum development.

A clear common agenda aligned and supported by primary stakeholder communities must be established.

The vast majority of the literature supports the focused development of a single standardized professional doctorate.