My personal suggestions to TCM students

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Here are my observations after 22+ years teaching in

TCM schools and 51+ years of being a student of TCM.

 

Find a practitioner to be your mentor.

Find someone who's style connects with you - both

their Ac style and the way they interact with their

patients.

Find someone who's goals of practice make sense to

you.

After you are on your own a mentor comes in handy for

all of those times when you suddenly feel inadequate

to the needs of your patients.

 

Spend as much time as you can sitting clinic with that

LAc. as they will allow.

 

Sit clinic with other LAcs at least a few times a

semester for balance.

 

Sitting clinic is where you will learn our art.

 

School teaches you a lot of theory -and IMHO not

enough practice - but if you truly wish to learn the

reallity of an acupuncture practice then spending

every minute that you can in one is the way you will

do this.

 

This is why Allopathic Doctors have internships.

 

Find an Acupuncture /TCM clinic to work in at the

front desk even if the pay is below what you can make

elsewhere.

 

Even if you need to volunteer

 

It will be well worth it even if you feel like you

have no time for yourself, or, you may have plenty of

time after graduation as you sit by yourself in your

clinic wondering why no one is coming to see you.

 

 

Even the best business classes will not teach you the

realities of running an Acupuncture clinic in the way

that sitting at the front desk will.

 

 

that is my .02

Doc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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