Guest guest Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 You are a clinician in a medium sized town in anywhere, USA. You don't live near an acupuncture college and you don't want to live in the big city. You have a reasonably busy practice after 5 years, but your clinic space is still underutilized. Maybe you have three rooms and only use 2 or even 1. Maybe you don't run over herbs quickly enough. Maybe you have classroom space, but don't get much ROI on that either. You make a decent living and your not going anywhere, but it doesn't look like you'll ever break through that income ceiling you seem to have hit. Well, what if you could get paid as a clinical supervisor and instructor and use your own clinic or other space to take on a small group of local students who wanted to enroll in the CHA online masters program and become LAc? I've crunched a few numbers and if a guaranteed 40 bucks an hour for 20 hours a week sounds good, keep reading these posts. This would really democratize the practice of OM, making the study easily available to many who can't relocate and giving many of you income opportunities in teaching and supervision that are usually only available if you live near a big school. Many of us, myself included, would prefer small town life, if we could just find a way out of Dodge. And because the program would be online, your students would not just be learning from whoever happened to live nearby, but from the best of the best who could be recruited from the international pool of TCM instructors. A real grassroots revolution or am I out of my mind? I think this one is doable. It would simultaneously restore diversity and rigor to the training. Yes, rigor. Everything that is done in online classes is recorded electronically forever. That puts a much higher burden to use classtime properly. For example, you can't submit dirty jokes to a class internet forum and get away with it, but you can spend face to face classtime doing pretty much whatever the students will let you get away with (even moreso in CEUs). I bet my students wish I was more laissez faire because certainly no one would be the wiser. Chinese Herbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 Todd You may want to look at the medical school in the Caymans(? spelling), you can do the first two years online and they are connected with ucla. Oakland, CA 94609 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 19, 2005 Report Share Posted July 19, 2005 , " " <alonmarcus@w...> wrote: > You may want to look at the medical school in the Caymans(? spelling), you can do the first two years online and they are connected with ucla. That's my point. We need to get out our dark ages mentality. As the late James Ramholz used to say frequently even six years ago, online media like CHA has already eclipsed all forms of print journals in rapid interactive tranmission and discussion. And it will do so in education as well. Its not if, its when. Its funny you mention UCLA, cause I was thinking exisitng med schools might be more amenable to offering accredited LAc programs like I describe if they could contract out the didactics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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