Clinic Class
Rainy first week-Library flood!
AcupuncturedThursday, March 13, 2008
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Five golden shiny ancient chamber study tips from the big jade mountain
This is my favourite Chinese Medicine picture. To me it says the studies of medicine are alive, happy and for all, even the animals! Everybody happily looks at the scroll as the information takes the centre of the picture and seems to jump out beyond the confines of the paper it's written on.Hey Peoples
Here are my study tips for the first years and continuing studiers:
Five golden shiny ancient chamber tips from the big jade mountain to stay on top:
1)Baby steps. Just tell yourself to study one bit at a time to keep going on.
For example in lecture:
“What the hell is this guy going on the <#@!! about??” To self: I will look at the chapter heading or page heading or subject name or course name ( extreme moments of confusion) and start from some sort of beginning. Doesn’t matter where, just so long as I have something to add info too…
Own study:
Do a 20 or 30 minute countdown and say “I am doing something in this time”. Usually gets things rolling for me. Or I will do one card for my flash cards, and it just keeps building.
2)Keep going, no matter how slowly, just don’t stop! Confucius
3)Open minded and open hearted, evaluate after! Don’t get unmotivated by crazy cross meaning, no sense making TCM brainwashing propaganda! The moment this happens forward progress can be halted and then gets worse from there (possibly a backwards movement!) Stay positive, think deliberately positive about why I am here, what my aim/goal/aspiration is. Reflect that these feelings maybe because its midnight before the exam and I am tired, and should have gone over it a bit more…Erm there is always sunshine after the rain…
4)Doesn’t matter what you do, as any exposure to the subject gives you something and fills in a gap somewhere. Chinese Medicine is mostly not linear thinking. It is grouping of info that comes together. The more you grasp the basics the more it seems to fall together. Then you take it to the clinic and it doesn’t make any sense – but then you have experience.
5)Library to study
Summary
1. Baby steps
2. Keep going
3. Open minded, open hearted
4. Go over it, go over it, go over it
5. Library baby
Oh and don’t forget to eat things-maybe healthy stuff, coffee accepted
PS study groups , it doesn’t work…
I hope that this is of some help!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
First Week Back at Uni for Second Year!
We have a busy weekly schedule from the go, weekly tests and so on. Looks like we have to re-evaluate a lot of the five phase stuff from last semester and think about things from a patterns point of view. Lot more wrote learning for herbs as we grapple with the western chemical make up of them. Clinic hours have increased and clinic class started with the head of the faculty emphasising the importance of knowing the internals of the meridians by bashing the table at the same time as shouting the information out! However the feeling this semester is a bit more of relaxation nonetheless. Second year is demonstration of commitment to the course and the lecturers are definitely a bit more easy going as they have got used to us a bit more- I think anyway…This came up:
Xiao Yao Wan
I had an acupuncture treatment for Wood invading the Earth (stress related). Mainly stomach points and one to the face and also ( you guessed it if studying) Liver 3, which is high up between the big toe and the second toe, ouch.
Anyway turns out it's a common problem and the patent pill medicine of Xiao Yao Wan is formulated to help. It’s popular enough to have a dedicated facebook group. Turns out the solution is a problem as well. I asked “how many do I take?” when I met a fellow student at lunch from third year. The reply, as the bottle was being emptied out generously, all of them…
Thursday, January 17, 2008
One year completed
Here’s an update!
Thanks for visiting. I really appreciate the hits and the feedback I get!
As you can see its been a while since I last updated, but I have completed my first year of study and the feeling is great!
Looking forward to learning and developing in 2008. One subject will be Chinese Diagnostic Systems which I hope will be revealing and helpful and of course back in the clinic for more practical hours, which really makes it all worthwhile.
So that is a quatre of the course complete and we are no longer the newbies as the new first years come rolling in. Fresh pin cushions to practice on ( I mean willing participants…)
Ps the photo is one of my lecturers from last year drawing an 11 fingered example of where channels go… Great lecturer-just bad drawer…
Thanks for visiting. I really appreciate the hits and the feedback I get!
As you can see its been a while since I last updated, but I have completed my first year of study and the feeling is great!
Looking forward to learning and developing in 2008. One subject will be Chinese Diagnostic Systems which I hope will be revealing and helpful and of course back in the clinic for more practical hours, which really makes it all worthwhile.
So that is a quatre of the course complete and we are no longer the newbies as the new first years come rolling in. Fresh pin cushions to practice on ( I mean willing participants…)
Ps the photo is one of my lecturers from last year drawing an 11 fingered example of where channels go… Great lecturer-just bad drawer…
Monday, October 22, 2007
Back on track
These are my study cards for point location. I'm a visual type..!
Hi Blogs,
A couple people come up to me in the week and said when’s your next entry? So here it is.
Firstly excuses: Since I got sick I got a bit unmotivated and then some mid semester exams railroaded me. I was doing my work, but what I had let slip before towered over me for a few weeks. With so much info building up each week I was losing a psychological battle! Plus I have had some personal emotional factors distracting me.
Anyway got re-inspired, I’ve beaten my current deadlines by a week or so and I’ve just started revising for what’s coming up in 4 weeks-End of sem exams, then its one year over-amazing!
So perhaps what really helped was: mum’s home cooking, a few acupuncture treatments, new summer weather, Dalai Lama chatting with George Bush, and a revitalized way at looking at clinic. Everybody thinks Clinic, actual hours in the student clinic with patients from the real world, is quite a drag. Basically it’s a bonus time to me. The practical application is helping out a lot and I reviewed my attitude to clinic in a few ways and it has helped me to keep inspired:
1) A few years of patient records is a wealth of info to check out
2) Experiment. Don’t be dictated to by all the protocols-God knows in my own clinic I will never have this much freedom and ability to try new things!
3) In down time, go through massage techniques with some fellow students and then throw in point location and channel location, perhaps a few needles.
4) Make tea for everyone and try out all the herbs in the dispensary.
5) With patients, call them up to find out more about their treatment-we have their details on record-why not?
6) Just be proactive. Get stuck right in and join the practitioners, don’t be lead by the hand the whole time. For example I got asked to do the cupping on one patient last week just because I was right in the practitioners face so much!
7) Lastly do not spend the whole session in the tea room or studying for other classes. It’s a valuable experience-squeeze it for everything you can get out of it and then suck the last dribbling entrails off from your wrists to the elbows!!!!MMM Tasty
A couple people come up to me in the week and said when’s your next entry? So here it is.
Firstly excuses: Since I got sick I got a bit unmotivated and then some mid semester exams railroaded me. I was doing my work, but what I had let slip before towered over me for a few weeks. With so much info building up each week I was losing a psychological battle! Plus I have had some personal emotional factors distracting me.
Anyway got re-inspired, I’ve beaten my current deadlines by a week or so and I’ve just started revising for what’s coming up in 4 weeks-End of sem exams, then its one year over-amazing!
So perhaps what really helped was: mum’s home cooking, a few acupuncture treatments, new summer weather, Dalai Lama chatting with George Bush, and a revitalized way at looking at clinic. Everybody thinks Clinic, actual hours in the student clinic with patients from the real world, is quite a drag. Basically it’s a bonus time to me. The practical application is helping out a lot and I reviewed my attitude to clinic in a few ways and it has helped me to keep inspired:
1) A few years of patient records is a wealth of info to check out
2) Experiment. Don’t be dictated to by all the protocols-God knows in my own clinic I will never have this much freedom and ability to try new things!
3) In down time, go through massage techniques with some fellow students and then throw in point location and channel location, perhaps a few needles.
4) Make tea for everyone and try out all the herbs in the dispensary.
5) With patients, call them up to find out more about their treatment-we have their details on record-why not?
6) Just be proactive. Get stuck right in and join the practitioners, don’t be lead by the hand the whole time. For example I got asked to do the cupping on one patient last week just because I was right in the practitioners face so much!
7) Lastly do not spend the whole session in the tea room or studying for other classes. It’s a valuable experience-squeeze it for everything you can get out of it and then suck the last dribbling entrails off from your wrists to the elbows!!!!MMM Tasty
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