calibration

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The discussion of modeling and how to best achieve a desired goal harks

back to our earlier discussions of interrater reliability visa ve chinese

diagnostics. As Will pointed out at that time, reliability requires

calibration. Calibration requires somewhat narrowly focused practice as

in the Hammer method Will described. Bob Felt has also pointed out that

japanese acupuncturists in certain schools can become quite calibrated in

the same fashion. I am pretty sure Jim has made the same point with

regard to his dong han style of pulsetaking. If TCM style herbology has

fully developed over the past three hundred years, it makes sense to

calibrate to this style when teaching it. I am hardly suggesting not to

calibrate to other styles when teaching those. Nor would I want to insist

we calibrate students in one style only at any given school. But without

the calibration, one can't really accomplish any teaching in any style. I

would also argue that calibration includes calibrating one's method of

assessing and planning. So while on one hand, we must respect the

inherent plurality of CM as one of its strengths, we must also recognize

that within that plurality one must still focus on whatever one is

personally doing. The concept of plurality as Scheid described it does

not mean that everyone needs to know or practice many styles, just that CM

as a whole embraced such plurality.

 

 

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