influencing medicine via residents

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to comment on I believe it was '

email about influencing medicine through medical

residents/students. I work for a teaching hospital of

northwestern university's med school and we have

residents rotate through our integrative outpatient

clinic (currently it is an elective rotation). part of

their rotation is to recieve treatment as well as

observe our practices. This has been most powerful and

has helped them to appreciate the imbalance of the

" established " medical system and the effects of their

training on their own health. Several of them have

continued on as patients beyond their rotations with

us and several continue to refer patients. This is a

powerful way to influence the future of medicine, I

believe (ideally it will become mandatory for all

residents)

 

And in response to the idea of using only western

concepts/scientific language to describe what we do -

I feel this is incomplete. I think it is crucial to

be able to explain it in western/scientific terms AND

ALSO describe TCM in terms of QI, balance, etc. In my

experience people -even medical residents do

understand these concepts intuitively and need to

accept that there is more than one paradigm. We need

to be bilingual in this respect.

 

Nicole

[Guest guest]

Nicole,

 

This is exciting news. Residents, yet. In SF there is an exchange between WM students and CM students just in its infancy. Your situation sounds far more developed. Congratulations!

 

Emmanuel Segmen

 

 

Hi everyone, I wanted to comment on I believe it was 'email about influencing medicine through medicalresidents/students. I work for a teaching hospital ofnorthwestern university's med school and we haveresidents rotate through our integrative outpatientclinic (currently it is an elective rotation). part oftheir rotation is to recieve treatment as well asobserve our practices. This has been most powerful andhas helped them to appreciate the imbalance of the"established" medical system and the effects of theirtraining on their own health. Several of them havecontinued on as patients beyond their rotations withus and several continue to refer patients. This is apowerful way to influence the future of medicine, Ibelieve (ideally it will become mandatory for allresidents) And in response to the idea of using only westernconcepts/scientific language to describe what we do -I feel this is incomplete. I think it is crucial to be able to explain it in western/scientific terms ANDALSO describe TCM in terms of QI, balance, etc. In myexperience people -even medical residents dounderstand these concepts intuitively and need toaccept that there is more than one paradigm. We needto be bilingual in this respect.NicoleMembership requires that you do not post any commerical, swear, religious, spam messages,flame another member or swear. To change your email settings, i.e. individually, daily digest or none, visit the groups’ homepage: Chinese Medicine/ click ‘edit my membership' on the right hand side and adjust accordingly. To send an email to<Chinese Medicine- > from the email account you joined with. You will be removed automatically but will still recieve messages for a few days.