80's era OMD is still valid

[Guest guest]

Please know that CAC and Samra (at least) WERE approved for several

years (1980's) to offer OMD and DOM.

My OMD is permanently attached to my screen name, flys with me for

free on the the major airlines, and is an elite badge of honor that

signifies exposure to teachers and material that will likely never be

publicly available again, as well as fellow students all motivated to

excel beyond licensure. I hold a Doctor of Oriental Medicine,

specifically apropo for me as distinct from either Asian Medicine

(inclusive of Ayurveda in my view), or limited notions of TCM as a

frozen time capsule, wether Mao-era or 2000 years ago.

Education is whatever YOU make of it, and counting hours as if that

signifies what is learned is for school administrators and high school

students. Nevermind that learning and capability are two different

things. Speaking of 300 hour programs, I should be NBAO as well, but

for missing the final. NBAO (acu - orthopedics) is possibly still the

most rigorous post-grad class available, because to learn anything

required such extensive commitment between and beyond class time. I

highly recommend it. I also highly recommend a few years serious

study of homeopathic principles, so you can take a case without asking

leading questions, and disregard bucketloads of irrelevent

information; in short, to effectively triage. I recommend learning

how to strip an SCM and properly do cross-friction before you or staff

claim to do bodywork. And as I mentioned here a few months ago, I

recommend a few thousand hours with Griffith's Clinical Consult

(mis-named 5-minute) to cure your ego ( ! )

I can throw together a formula restaurant column style with clusters

learned from Dharmananda's original course on my own time, but don't

weigh, and don't care if it's got a name because I do it like the

displaced northern european shaman-naturist that I am, and it will be

adjusted according to patient feedback in the cybernetic loop that I

call healthcare. I'm up to a few hundred words of spoken Mandarin,

just to be able to communicate with my neighbors, but I'll probably

never touch the classics. If a patient of mine doesn't get MEASURABLE

FUNCTIONAL IMPROVEMENT (that's called evidence base) they are given a

formal referal to another professional. I've given many referals

BEFORE and without initiating any Tx; RARELY after.

We are many of us quite unique in our own backgrounds, skills, and

predilictions.

As a joke goes, Radiologists may see things that aren't there, but we

don't even have to see;

We feel the vibes. There you have it from my P.O.V.

Joe Reid (Yisheng)

OMD, California Licensed Acupuncturist

 

S.Woodley wrote >>>>>***Since the doctoral programs are so new,

perhaps only 50 practitioners in CA.can actually use Such a

designation legitimately. <<<

[Guest guest]

" Please know that CAC and Samra (at least) WERE approved for several

years (1980's) to offer OMD and DOM. "

 

Weren't these approved solely by the CA dept of Ed (BPPVE) and not

any national agency such as ACAOM (just curious)?

 

It would be great if there was a well researched history of our development

here in the US.

 

Mike W. Bowser, L Ac

 

 

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