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Thursday, March 17, 2011

TCM School training faculty on how to teach TCM to 21st century students

American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine is doing something revolutionary, not unusual for the school, in the AOM education sector, ACTCM, located in Potrero Hill in San Francisco, is a Chinese Medicine School and Health Center, where people from the public can receive treatments for a variety of ailments. Essentially faculty of ACTCM will be attending a one day conference, title  “Case-Based Learning and the 21st Century Student in AOM Education” on May 1, 2011 at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco .  This interactive conference will bring together faculty and administrators from AOM colleges from California, Oregon and Washington, and will feature presenters who are leaders in our field, as well as opportunity to share best practices at our own institutions with each other.   Participants will receive eligible CEUs for their participation.
Conference Schedule:

8:30-9:00 am—registration, coffee and tea
9am—Welcome and introductions
9:15-10am—Keynote Speaker: Leslie McCoy, DAOM, LAc, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
10-10:45am— Keynote Speaker: Richard Hammerschlag, PhD, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine
10:45am-11am—Break
11am-12:30—Breakout discussion groups and report backs
12:30-1:30pm—Lunch & presentation by People’s Medical Publishing House
1:30-1:45pm—Break
1:45-3:15pm—Panel Discussion: “Effective Teaching Strategies for 21st Century AOM Students”
                Moderator: Adam Burke, PhD, LAc San Francisco State University
                Speakers: Stacy Gomes, EdD, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
                          Steve Given, DAOM, LAc, Bastyr College
                          John Kokko, MSTCM, LAc, Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences
                          Bingzeng Zou, PhD (China) LAc, DC, American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine


ACTCM is a constant leader in educating TCM professionals, and offers a renowned faculty at its helm. This event is exciting for the school to continue to develop its esteemed faculty and apply teaching techniques to 21st century students.
ACTCM is a constant leader in educating TCM professionals, and offers a renowned faculty athis event is exciting for the school to continue to develop its esteemed faculty and apply teaching techniques to 21st century students.

6 comments:

  1. I hope you might continue to keep in submitting new content pieces & thanks for sharing your great experience among us.

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  3. Nice posting. Chinese medicine do have variety of treatment procedures that can cover different diseases. Acupuncture ( naturopathic medicine Kitchener) and Moxibustion are examples.

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  5. I am going to attend that meeting as I am sure that would have a lot for all of us who have been chiropractor for years and are still learning to provide relief to the people and make their lives happier.

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