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{"title":"Direct Observation of Procedural Skills as an Assessment Tool in Acupuncture Skills Training for International Students.","authors":"Kangmin Tang, Xu Zhou, Ziyong Ju, Fan Wang, Tingting Zhang, Dan Hu, Chen Zhao, Shuang Zhou","doi":"10.1089/acu.2024.0119","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2024.0119","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>With the global recognition of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), acupuncture has gained widespread acceptance. However, training and assessing procedural skills in acupuncture, particularly for international students, remain challenging. The Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS) is a clinical assessment tool that provides real-time feedback, offering a potential solution to enhance practical skill development.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study evaluates the effectiveness of DOPS in improving practical skills, clinical thinking, and overall teaching quality among international acupuncture students.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study was conducted at the School of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. A DOPS-based assessment scale was developed following the Technical Benchmark of Acupuncture and Moxibustion: Filiform Needle (2023). DOPS was applied through a three-stage process (preparation, operation, and feedback) to assess acupuncture preparation, needle insertion, manipulation, and disinfection. Feedback addressed deficiencies to enhance learning outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>DOPS significantly improved international students' practical skills, operational proficiency, and critical thinking. Teachers and students reported high satisfaction with the system, which also facilitated the integration of theory with practice. Students refined their clinical skills and excelled in national competitions.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>DOPS is an effective tool for acupuncture skills training, providing standardized, real-time feedback that enhances teaching quality and bridges gaps in clinical practice. Future advancements, such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence, could further optimize the system and advance international acupuncture education.</p>","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"37 1","pages":"73-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11937811/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143731558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating Medical Acupuncture Education into the Curriculum for Medical Students at Stanford University.","authors":"James Xie, Brenda Golianu, May Loo, Yuan-Chi Lin","doi":"10.1089/acu.2024.0120","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2024.0120","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Early exposure to medical acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in medical education fosters a well-rounded understanding of integrative medicine. For over two decades, Stanford University has offered acupuncture and TCM education in its curriculum, aiming to enhance students' understanding of acupuncture's scientific and traditional foundations and its clinical applications.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We describe two courses and their learning goals and curricula: 1) a medical acupuncture course for medical students launched in 1997 and 2) a foundation of TCM course for undergraduates launched in 2002. These courses are housed within the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine at Stanford University's School of Medicine.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The medical acupuncture course encompasses theoretical and practical aspects of acupuncture, including principles of TCM, meridian theory, and evidence-based applications. Students engage in practical skill development, research analysis, and final paper presentations to consolidate their learning. The course integrates hands-on workshops, lectures, and discussions, with evolving content to reflect contemporary research. The TCM foundations course covers essential elements of TCM, including its historical evolution, meridian theory, and the five elements theory. These foundational concepts are contextualized within cultural, philosophical, and lifestyle factors to provide a holistic understanding of TCM and its study using modern biomedical techniques. Both courses have had annual enrollments of 10-30 students and continue to receive outstanding feedback from participants.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Integrating acupuncture into the medical education context broadens students' understanding of treatment options, enabling them to deliver more holistic patient care. Stanford University remains committed to cultivating future healthcare leaders equipped to incorporate acupuncture and related complementary therapies into modern clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"37 1","pages":"21-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11937794/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143731823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Acupuncture Training for Dentists.","authors":"Greg Goddard","doi":"10.1089/acu.2024.0037","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2024.0037","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article will attempt to discuss acupuncture training for dentists. The use of acupuncture by dentists is regulated by each individual state within the United States, and outside of the U.S., acupuncture is usually regulated by countries. Acupuncture training for dentists can be safely and effectively accomplished in 25 hours.</p>","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"37 1","pages":"59-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11937790/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Oral Tradition of Teaching Traditional Oriental Medicine.","authors":"Felipe Abreu Márquez, Doménica Denisse Villacís Ponce","doi":"10.1089/acu.2024.0105","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2024.0105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"37 1","pages":"85-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11937753/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143731842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perspectives on Teaching Acupuncture to Medical Students.","authors":"Erik K Koda, SongXuan Zhou-Niemtzow, Stephen Burns, Richard Niemtzow","doi":"10.1089/acu.2024.0110","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2024.0110","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Given the interest in acupuncture expressed by many medical students (MSs) worldwide, the challenge is how to introduce acupuncture in medical training. In this article, we present our experience of training MSs from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) at the Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine Center, 316th Medical Group, Joint Base Andrews, Marland 20762.</p><p><strong>Curriculum: </strong>Rotating MS are given the opportunity of an elective rotation with the diverse styles of five physician medical acupuncturists and two licensed acupuncturists. MSs experience an acupuncture referral clinic and acupuncture in a primary care clinic. MSs are given acupuncture didactics, as it may apply to medical specialties and integrative medicine topics. They participate in group practice acupuncture sessions. Included in the rotation is Battlefield Acupuncture certification.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The elective clinical rotation offered to USUHS has produced 13 MS rotators yearly for the past 3 years. There appears to be strong postrotation interest in incorporating acupuncture into their future allopathic medical specialty.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Many previous acupuncture elective USUHS students apply for the United States Air Force Medical Acupuncture Scholar Program to attend a 300-h certified acupuncture training course after obtaining their medical doctor degree and post-specialty training. There have been 20 applicants per year in the past 3 years from 15 medical specialties. Western medicine may be improved by the incorporation of acupuncture in all facets of medical care. Whether seeing a primary care provider or a specialist, patients should have acupuncture available to expand treatment options. Acupuncture may offer an attraction to allopathic physicians to increase their scope of practice. Incorporating acupuncture also appears to decrease physician burnout by reducing depersonalization.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The elective acupuncture rotation of USUHS MS at the United States Air Force Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine Center, Joint Base Andrews, is utilized near capacity as a 4^th-year elective.</p>","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"37 1","pages":"17-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11937752/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143731970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Advancements in Acupuncture Education.","authors":"Libin Jia","doi":"10.1089/acu.2025.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/acu.2025.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"37 1","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11937809/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143732380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Unearthed Medical Slip Reveals a Rare Vascular Pathway or Meridian Described 2000 Years Ago.","authors":"Yong Ming Li","doi":"10.1089/acu.2024.0056","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2024.0056","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recently unearthed Tinhui Medical Slips, dating back to 2nd century BCE, demonstrates the 12th meridian in Chinese medicine as an anatomy-based discovery. This is equivalent to the persistent median artery, which was later incorporated into Neijing meridian theory and set the foundation for traditional acupuncture today.</p>","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"36 6","pages":"337-342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11659449/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142878290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Embracing Traditional Medicines from Which Modern Medicine Originated.","authors":"Jennifer Stone, Richard Niemtzow","doi":"10.1089/acu.2024.0175","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2024.0175","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"36 6","pages":"303-304"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11659443/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142878293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrative Acupuncture and Herbal Protocol for Managing Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia and Prostatitis.","authors":"Bhavit Bansal","doi":"10.1089/acu.2024.0151","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2024.0151","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"36 6","pages":"373-374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11659452/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142878302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Internet as a Source of Public Health Information on Acupuncture for Pain Relief: Credibility Assessment and Readability Analysis.","authors":"Shahabedin Rahmatizadeh, Saeideh Valizadeh-Haghi, Hassan Ebrahimpour Sadagheyani, Amirreza Kalantari, Hossein Motahari-Nezhad, Zeinab Kohzadi","doi":"10.1089/acu.2023.0136","DOIUrl":"10.1089/acu.2023.0136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the number of patients seeking information from online health websites. As the information available on these websites can significantly impact the overall health of individuals in a society, it is vital for online health information to be presented in a manner that is readable and credible to the general public. To address this concern, the objective of the study was to examine and assess the credibility and readability of websites about acupuncture as a pain management approach.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The research population was represented by websites containing information about pain management using acupuncture found through Google, Yahoo, and Bing search engines and with the keywords acupuncture and pain. The websites were evaluated in terms of confirming HON and JAMA criteria. FRE, GFI, FKGL, CLI, SMOG, and ARI indexes were used to assess their readability, and Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to compare the data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This study evaluated 52 websites that appeared on the first three pages of search engine results. Out of the 52 websites analyzed, 40 websites (76.9%) met the validity criteria set by JAMA, while only 21 websites (40.4%) were deemed valid based on the HONcode standards. According to the average readability index (12.38), the contents presented on the websites were at the Difficult to Read level. The mean readability scores of websites across various domains exhibit no statistically significant difference (<i>p</i> > 0.05).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The majority of websites that provide acupuncture-related information do meet the verification set by HONcode. Additionally, the scientific and educational content on these websites tends to be more complex than what is recommended by the AMA and NIH. This is concerning given the increasing popularity of online content and the impact it has on public health. Providers of this information must prioritize making it readable to a wide audience.</p>","PeriodicalId":45511,"journal":{"name":"Medical Acupuncture","volume":"36 6","pages":"350-358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11659436/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142878305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}