Point of information

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Just as point of information, the people that I know doing medical research in America and Europe have MD/PhDs or they are PhDs in chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, molecular genetics, or one of the branches of physiology. There are by comparison relatively few MDs directing research as compared to the other categories. Look at the credentials of the people writing papers on Medline. If the CM profession grows and develops in a research/academic sort of way, I suspect that it will follow the same pattern wherein researchers have PhDs or combination degrees. I'm not necessarily supportive of the idea. I actually have fairly unformed thoughts about it. Mostly I feel guided by CM ideas in my observations of Western science research. I feel pretty sensitive to the possibility of paradigm mismatches that would limit CM or turn integrated medicine into a chimera of paradoxical practices.

 

Emmanuel Segmen

 

I think we may have to develop a separate PhD program in TCM that will meet the needs of scholars, reserachers and translators. Because the DAOM is designed mainly to produce specialty clinicians and it will not be able to meet these other needs, IMO, whatever its stated goals. However, with skillful use of technology, 10 credits at PCOM could result in some functional access to some chinese medical literature.Todd

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> I think we may have to develop a separate PhD program in TCM

that will meet the needs of scholars, reserachers and translators.

Because the DAOM is designed mainly to produce specialty clinicians

and it will not be able to meet these other needs, IMO, whatever its

stated goals. However, with skillful use of technology, 10 credits

at PCOM could result in some functional access to some chinese

medical literature. >>>

 

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As part of their application to the DAOM, you should ask people how

many books from the acupuncture and herb sections of the Redwing

catalog they have bought and read!

 

 

Jim Ramholz