Also called: Integrative Health Physician
A medical doctor who combines standard medicine with evidence-based complementary approaches like acupuncture, nutrition, and mind-body therapies.
Spends a full hour with a patient with chronic pain, reviewing medications but also sleep, diet, stress, and whether acupuncture or yoga might help. Often works in academic integrative medicine centers.
Estimate; BLS top-codes physician wages.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Professional degree (MD, JD, DVM…), about 13 years after high school. Medical degree and residency plus an integrative medicine fellowship or board certification.
Ways in: Professional school, Certification. Training cost: Over $150k.
Majors to look at: Biology, Pre-Medicine, Nutrition.
Growing about average (about 3% over 10 years).
Low risk for 10 years. AI drafts visit notes and checks supplement-drug interactions; hour-long personal visits and medical judgment stay with the doctor.
Classes: AP Biology, AP Chemistry, Psychology, Nutrition/Foods.
Official data: O*NET occupation 29-1229.
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