CM students, lack of curiosity, qi

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Rory,

 

> I agree with you in part. However, I wouldn't put this result

> entirely, or even mostly, down to circumstance. I'd put it down

> largely to lack of curiosity, or perhaps mental energy, on the part

> of a large percentage of those going through school. For example,

> there are programs out there that offer considerably more breadth and

> depth than others, yet the majority of students deliberately avoid these

> schools and choose the less demanding programs, even when they are

> situated in the same square mile.

 

I am sorry to hear this. In effect you are saying that CM students lack qi,

and that does not say much for their chances of clinical success. I can't

imagine not wanting to know more about what one plans to do as a career.

 

> Furthermore, how many practitioners take the trouble to seek further

> training, or follow a senior practitioner in their early years of

> practice? How many have a journal subscriptions? How many read the

> available books of good quality that describe the history of Chinese

> medicine in some detail? (you should know the answer to that one!)

 

Well, how many graduates from 1993 are with us in 2003? It seems to me

that if we were to add up the school graduation numbers, or the test-pass

numbers, for the last ten years then look at the numbers of clinicians that

have enough economic presence to show-up in the tax return data, we'd see

a very heavy drop-out rate.

 

 

> These are all choices that can be made by individuals, and it's no

> secret that these things are available.

 

Yes, you are correct. However, the situation you describe could not exist if

there were not schools recruiting such qi-less students. It seems to me that

if they can graduate and pass their exams, some responsibility accrues to

the profession to foster examinations that are better predictors of survival

in practice.

 

Bob

 

 

 

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