TCM - misplaced anger / OMD vs Masters

September 1, 2003

In a message dated 8/27/03 1:40:24 PM, YinTangSong writes:

> With all due respect, David, you did not make this clarification in your

> previous post. The context was master vs. doctorate education. I was

> stating

> that I found the master level education to be a perfectly acceptable point

> at

> which to treat patients and if one wishes to continue to a doctorate that

> should

> be a choice not a mandate.

>

It will be a choice, state by state and school by school. If students choose

to attend Master's level colleges when the Doctorate level colleges are

everywhere, it will continue. My observatoin from the move to the Master's

program

from the diploma one is that once enough schools offered Master's degrees,

students went there and the other schools had to compete. It wasn't until after

the Master's was the norm that the NCCAOM could require it. It is evolutionary,

not forced. The process is already started, and the present PhD style

doctorate that the schools have proposed instead of the clinical one they said

they

had planned, will either be jettisoned or used later after the actual clinical

programs and curriculum are in place.

The Master's, as it is, it great for todays world perhaps, but maybe not for

the next decades world. Things are changing, and it is not in our best

interests to remain static and say what we have now is fine until we see what we

may

find is better. The market will take care of it, but we do need to make sure

it is not subterfuged by special interests on either end of the equation. Your

participation in the " Visioning process " and by participation in an

organization that lets its members views be heard is an intrinsic part of that

dialogue.

David Molony

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