Guest guest Posted August 28, 2000 Report Share Posted August 28, 2000 Thaddeus Jacobs wrote: Recently, NCNM changed its admissions criteria. In order to meet the California licensing standards in the near future, NCNM will not be allowed to accept applications from ONLY licensed health care practitioners (i.e. NDs, MDs, DCs, DOs, etc). In order to keep standards high, CCM students will be required to partake of the first two years of general Western science coarsework -including clinical physical diagnosis and laboratory diagnosis. Holy Cow! you might be thinking, but that IS the case. For those out there unaware of NCNM's curricula, it approximates the quantity of Western sciences learned at conventional medical schools during the first two years. In any event, this also corresponds to the amount of Western sciences TCM practitioners recieve in China. (This is no coincidence). Lab testing has much to offer in terms of prognosticating treatment outcomes; point blank. Lab tests are diagnostic tools, just as are observation of the tongue and pulse. Almost all every day run-of-the-mill ailments can be treated successfully with TCM, but if we aren't able to discern between what is run-of-the-mill and potentially life-threatening, then we set ourselves up for sure failure as healthcare providers. For example, lets say someone comes in with a sore throat. You come up with a Chinese medical diagnosis and treatment approach and so on and so forth. Well, what do you do in the light that this disease might be step pharyngitis and this person has a previous history of rheumatic fever and certain sequelae related to it? Don't you think it would be a good idea to know for sure if the patient has this condition? Wouldn't it be nice if you knew, perhaps withing 5 minutes, whether or not it is appropriate to treat this person? And even if a different, more robust patient comes to you and you discover via a rapid strep swab that strep is involved, wouldn't it be nice to know that you can effectively treat this condition (with close supervision of course)? Anyway this is some stuff for us to chew on for a bit. I'd be interested in hearing responses from you and others.Thad -- Chinese Herbal Medicine (503) 771-9599 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 28, 2000 Report Share Posted August 28, 2000 ----- Original Message -- -Recently, NCNM -- >>>Whats NCNM? good for them alon cha Monday, August 28, 2000 9:55 AM [Fwd: lab tests] Thaddeus Jacobs wrote: Recently, NCNM changed its admissions criteria. In order to meet the California licensing standards in the near future, NCNM will not be allowed to accept applications from ONLY licensed health care practitioners (i.e. NDs, MDs, DCs, DOs, etc). In order to keep standards high, CCM students will be required to partake of the first two years of general Western science coarsework -including clinical physical diagnosis and laboratory diagnosis. Holy Cow! you might be thinking, but that IS the case. For those out there unaware of NCNM's curricula, it approximates the quantity of Western sciences learned at conventional medical schools during the first two years. In any event, this also corresponds to the amount of Western sciences TCM practitioners recieve in China. (This is no coincidence). Lab testing has much to offer in terms of prognosticating treatment outcomes; point blank. Lab tests are diagnostic tools, just as are observation of the tongue and pulse. Almost all every day run-of-the-mill ailments can be treated successfully with TCM, but if we aren't able to discern between what is run-of-the-mill and potentially life-threatening, then we set ourselves up for sure failure as healthcare providers. For example, lets say someone comes in with a sore throat. You come up with a Chinese medical diagnosis and treatment approach and so on and so forth. Well, what do you do in the light that this disease might be step pharyngitis and this person has a previous history of rheumatic fever and certain sequelae related to it? Don't you think it would be a good idea to know for sure if the patient has this condition? Wouldn't it be nice if you knew, perhaps withing 5 minutes, whether or not it is appropriate to treat this person? And even if a different, more robust patient comes to you and you discover via a rapid strep swab that strep is involved, wouldn't it be nice to know that you can effectively treat this condition (with close supervision of course)? Anyway this is some stuff for us to chew on for a bit. I'd be interested in hearing responses from you and others.Thad -- Director Chinese Herbal Medicine (503) 771-9599 Chinese Herbal Medicine, a voluntary organization of licensed healthcare practitioners, matriculated students and postgraduate academics specializing in Chinese Herbal Medicine, provides a variety of professional services, including board approved online continuing education. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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