Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® presentation on a methodology you create for assessing credibility and reliability of sources of CAM information. Include detailed speaker notes and reference citations.

Devise 3 to 5 objective criteria to judge the credibility and reliability of a source of information on CAM, such as a book, newspaper article, or speaker. Research websites on a CAM therapeutic modality.

Review one of the websites and determine how reliable the site is for CAM information, using your 3 to 5 criteria.

• Describe how a consumer’s attitudes and beliefs about CAM could hinder objective assessments of reliability and credibility in CAM.

• Demonstrate, in detail, how you reached your conclusion about the website. Consider using a grading scale or grid for this exercise.

• Discuss what steps the website could take to increase its credibility.

Present the Assessing Reliability and Credibility of CAM Resources Presentation.

• For Local Campus students, these may be (at the discretion of the faculty) oral presentations accompanied by PowerPoint^® presentations.

For Online and Directed Study students, these are PowerPoint^® presentations with notes.