Should TCM students/practitioners try tobecome fluent in Chinese?

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Rory,

 

It might be hard to determine a causal relationship

between any one aspect of SIOM's grads and their

clinical skills, but it would certainly be

possible to ask them and at least know what

their self-perceptions on the subject are.

 

I wonder if SIOM has done this?

 

Ken

 

I'd be interested to know in what ways

> the SIOM program achieves a better outcome (assuming it does),

once

> you factor out the better prepared entering students. Is it the

> personal attention/small class size, or is it the inclusion of

> Chinese language requirements, or what is it? If it is the Chinese

> language requirements, then that would be strong evidence against

the

> arguments here that time would be better spent on 'more clinically

> applicable' pursuits.

>

> Rory

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