Digest Number 1162 Practioner success

[Guest guest]

Todd and everyone,

 

Discussion has focused on sucess, and on how meagre income

is for most students after graduation. Certainly,$37,000

anually doesn't go far for paying back a large loan.

Discussion has been centered on whether the students are

inadequately trained to start a practice, or inadequately

trained to treat all the cases they see.

 

There may be a third reason that the profession has so many

members struggling to get by. How many schools have

competetive admissions? I know I have brought this up

before, and maybe no one else sees it in the same light,

but my thinking is influenced by supply and demand. If a

school takes every prospective student who wishes to attend

and meets minimal qualification, they are flooding the

market. Although the interest in getting acupuncture is

growing, I don't think it's growing as quickly as the

desire to become an acupuncturist. All the marketing savvy

in the world can't overcome competition against your own

school after you graduate, when your school has greater

resources, more clinic times, and a lower price to offer

the population of the area. (It also doesn't add to the

stature of being an acupuncturist to have open admissions.)

 

I advise new students to consider this career in terms of

their willingness to relocate, as well as their ability to

study the academics. Too bad I am in love with my house and

garden here.

 

 

 

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