Define and describe the concept of medical pluralism.

• Medical pluralism is an approach to treatment that employs more than one medical system for one or more conditions at once.

Define and explain the relationship between ontology and epistemology.

•  Both are key in giving answers
  •  Epistemology
  •  The way we know things. 
  •  Descriptive in nature.
  •  Ontology
  •  The way thing really are.
  •  Binary in nature.

Define and describe the biomedical and biopsychosocial models.

•  Biomedical model looks at the physical body and tries to cure the patient with only physical facts
•  Biopsychosocial model looks at 3 components to cure the patient:
  •  “Bio”: Biological => Clinical aspects.
  •  “Psycho”: Psychological => Individual/personal factors.
  •  “Social”: Social => Contextual, environmental, and occupational factors.

Elicit themes from their course paper narratives and identify search terms for the literature searches.