Guest guest Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Just heard from a local doc about a program Andrew Weil is offering for M.D.'s. Two years of distance learning with a 3-week on-site session; includes nutrition, acupuncture, Chinese and western herbs, manipulation, and energy work. Cost $27,000. It's called an associate fellowship. It is very popular and she will take it along with many docs from around the country. Frances Gander Athens, Ohio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 Why wouldn't she get a degree with serious supervised clinical training? This subject cannot be learned in a few weeks nor practiced effectively in such a short time. She can almost attend a lower level school for that amount of money and she will still get more for her money. This has got to be a joke yet it appears to be typical of a strange mindset, our professional training is not respected yet their MD make acupuncture programs better. I recently reviewed, for potential publishing, a manuscript (more like an outline with no references listed) of a TCM herbal text on western herbs written by a MD. It was a joke. The writer pulled out common western herbs and listed their energetics. These were incomplete and had no cautions, contraindications or even combinations. I suggested the editor look at Bensky's Materia Medica for a serious body of knowledge on the topic. The sad thing about this company in general is that all of their published texts are written by MD. I have suggested to them the importance of publishing books written by knowledgable scholars in our field. I also made a remark about the unpopularity of the medical acupuncturist with the L Ac community. I wonder how many people out there just do not get the difference and are lulled into the false hope created by their MD's. The dummy down of education continues. Mike W. Bowser, L Ac >frances gander <threetreasures > > > Weil M.D. training >Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:56:02 -0500 > >Just heard from a local doc about a program Andrew Weil is offering for >M.D.'s. Two years of distance learning with a 3-week on-site session; >includes nutrition, acupuncture, Chinese and western herbs, >manipulation, and energy work. Cost $27,000. It's called an associate >fellowship. It is very popular and she will take it along with many docs >from around the country. > >Frances Gander >Athens, Ohio > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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