Our Back to School Special

For the month of September, we are offering special discounted fees to all current students, teachers & school staffers.

We treasure education as an important part of human society, and we're happy to add our small support!

The Incredible Voyage (2010 version)

For those of you who don't know about this, Google Labs has just created a human body browser -- called "Google Body Browser."

It's a fun little software to look through bones, muscles, organs, neural segments, etc. Happily, it is has a search box in the upper right corner, so you can type it in and find out just exactly WHERE your hippocampus is! (And you thought it was a field of hippopotamuses, yes?)

"Medical Acupuncture" -- acupuncture training for M.D.s

I came across this interesting post discussing the abbreviated acupuncture training for M.D.s and the viewpoint that it creates under-trained practitioners, with a shallow understanding of the theoretical foundations of the science of acupuncture.

The author, Dr. Marilyn Walkey, has an impressive background -- she has been a medical doctor for more than 20 years, who initially took a "medical acupuncture" training course, and then actually enrolled in AOM school to become a fully-qualified acupuncture practitioner.

(For those of you who don't know, acupuncture practitioner training in the U.S. is 2000+ hours of didactic & clinical training -- usually this is a graduate degree academic program. This is in contrast to medical acupuncture courses, which are usually 200-300 hours of training -- although chiropractors in the state of Florida can qualify for chiropractic acupuncture certification after 100 hours of additional training -- as per the DOH's Acupuncture Certification Application.)

Dr. Walkey's view is that the profession of acupuncture in the U.S. is being under-represented by the sub-field of "medical acupuncture" and that patients who are being treated by it may be missing the benefits of this medicine.