DAOM journey weekend 02/24
Hola mis amores!
Welcome back! I am so excited to recap my second weekend of Doctoral classes at Yo San University. Please feel free to go back and read up on weekend 1 for som general info about myself, and the program..
I’ll be honest, I have been chomping at the bit to get back in class. I learned so much weekend 1.
I have been looking forward to this since our last weekend of classes. No lie.
🐲And it happened to land on Lunar New Year! The School looked extra festive with all the beautiful red decorations. Happy Year of the Dragon. 🐲
✨My goal is to bring awareness to the thorough training and education we receive as Acupuncturists.✨
Ok Lets get into it.
We had three classes this weekend:
⚛️ Scientific Foundations of Acupuncture → 10 hours
🌀 Physiology and Herbal Medicine of Shan Hun Lun → 20 hours
📁 Case Studies → 5 hours
⚛️ We finished up Scientific Foundations of Acupuncture with Dr. Ostrick. For this course, we needed to pick 2 or more studies, write a paper and present it to the class. I chose to talk about Placebo Theory. After hearing about these studies in Acupuncture, all working to prove or disprove its efficacy… it was such an eye opener about how multifaceted this medicine is. These clinical trials tend to come back inconclusive because they're learning that Acupuncture has too many variables, making it difficult to even create a control group, let alone prove or disprove its efficacy. My takeaway from that is that this medicine is too vast, and modern science is struggling to reduce it to a few points of data.
🌀Next up, we had Physiology and Herbal Medicine of Shan Hun Lun with Brandt Stickely. HIGHLY HIGLY recommend taking a CEU course with him if you ever have the chance. Personally, I was very excited about this course because Shan Hun Lun is a text that I know very little of. That said, after this class, I have a profound appreciate for Shan Hun Lun and its herbal formulas. I’ve already started applying a lot of this to my patients this week. 🌱 We learned about classical formulas and their modifications. We were fortunate enough to have a patient come in, so we could observe his intake, pulse-taking methods, and diagnosis. Forget everything you knew about pulse diagnosis because his methods are other worldly. Turns out, later down the road he’ll be teaching a pulse class as well, and I’m just in awe that we get to learn from him again! Thank goodness.
📁 Lastly we had another session of Grand rounds aka Case Studies, but this time with Dr. Li. She is an expert in this field to say the very least, and it was such a treat to pick her brain and get her take on all these different cases. When I was a student, case studies always felt so boring. But now, as licensed and practicing Acupuncturist, case studies are so fun! I am enjoying this much more than I thought I would. It’s fun to see the diversity of cases that my colleagues present as well. Some are successful, and some are presenting seeking tips and helps. I was even lucky enough to ask her about some of my current patient cases. She gave me a lot to work with!
I honestly don’t know how they’re getting such incredible professors for this program, but I am so grateful they are.
This program, thus far, is taking me, as a practitioner, to the next level, no question.
☁️ Ok I hope you follow along for more because we’re just getting started!
In the meantime, I get to apply all this new information, technique, and herbs to my practice. See you next month! 💃🏽
