關於TCM clinic

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Dear Winder

I will be in charge of the TCM clinic in the first week you are all here so if there is anything you are interested in or need then please come back to me about it. To answer your questions -

1. There are 5 afternoons in the first week for TCM clinic. How do you arrange our students to join or participate, or “watch” for the internship in your clinic?
We have 17 students totally, but 5 students from College of Pharmacy. Therefore, I hope all of students can join the TCM clinic course in the first day. Then, these 5 students will have a small project in Kew for 4 afternoons. It means there are 12 students will continue participate in the TCM clinic from Tuesday. Do you divide them into small groups for orientation?

The students will all come into the clinic into one discussion room starting at 2pm on the Monday. We will do an induction with them all on the first day. Then we will mainly have students observing clinic treatment through a video link. A senior student will be treating a patient in one room and the supervisor will be in the room with your students explaining the process and dealing with any language issues. At the same time we have a multibed clinic operating and we will take students off about 2/3 at a time to observe that.

2. How long will be the internship in TCM clinic everyday? I know the course will be started from 1:30 or 2:00 in the afternoon. But, how late it will be? Some students would like to know the timing and make them arrange the other schedule easily. Please!

The students will start at 2pm and can finish when it suits them. The clinic operates until 6pm but if they want to leave earlier that is fine.

3. Do they need to have the white coat during the internship in TCM clinic.

No don’t bother with white coats. If we have some of your students treating we can loan them a white coat.

4. Does it include acupuncture in this TCM clinic?

Our clinic is primarily acupuncture. That is something you will find quite different from Taiwan - in the UK there are far more acupuncturists than herbalists. Monday/Wednesday/Friday will be acupuncture; Tuesday Tuina; Thursday herbal medicine. If the pharmacy students will only be there Monday I will look at running a Herb clinic that afternoon as well. Note we do not have a Chinese herbal medicine pharmacy but we do have a western herbal pharmacy and will arrange for them to sit in with that on the Monday.

I hope you are all aware that our clinic is very small in comparison to what I imagine yours is. This is in effect a private clinic and not part of the National health Service.

Our students have said they will be around if they want to go to the pub after clinic!!!

Hope this helps and looking forward to meeting up.

Felicity Moir
Course Leader Chinese Medicine
School of Life Sciences
University of Westminster
115 New Cavendish St
London W1W 6UW

清楚了吧！