Weblog of Xuemei Liu

Oversea TCM institutions generally pay more attention on the systemic management in teaching clinics, including: fixed healthcare process, team work, thoughtful arrangement of services, comply with supervisors, cultivate professional temperament, professional ethics, relationship between health professional and patient, clinic disinfection, medical records management, medical waste, clinical supplies and patient privacy protection etc.


Oversea clinical instructor of Chinese medicine needs to be good at foreign language, their own clinical experience as well as supervisory teaching experience. The clinical supervisor who possesses these qualities as a good teacher is somehow hard to find with. Since their role is so important that clinic director will not give up seeking. Therefore, following cultivation and upgrading for clinical instructors is an eternal topic of education.


Effective leading and managing is another key which cannot be ignored. Timing, advance case discussions, summed up at the end, practice guidance, and other sectors should follow a framework and implementation. In the guidance of individual case, supervisor personalized monitoring is to ensure the patient’s safety and treatment smoothly.


Oversea Chinese institutions pay attention on the interaction of theory and practice. Therefore the students usually have their clinic theater class at the first school year, and have their clinic observer shift started after some TCM foundation classes. The intern shift does not have to wait until the end of the last course. This is a good method to get mutual impetus.


Clinical training not only gives prominence to the key points of diagnosis and treatment, but also widely covers all the aspects. It resolves the short-term symptoms or acute problems, meanwhile has long-term plan for fundamental treatment as well as prevention of recurrence or follow-up tracking. The flexibility using of a variety of TCM methods offers students a well-shaped patterns, and the overall concept is conducive to their future conduct of clinics practice alone.


In order to maintain patient’s well being, coexisting with western medicine and other health care system is important. Clinical training leads students to expand their medical knowledge and learn from other health care systems. Promoting mutual understanding and development, it is a very good point in the clinical training.

Key words: TCM oversea, clinical training, experience

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