Diversity in Oriental Medicine Education
- VernacularTitle:東洋医学教育の多様性 古典教育と電子教材、 授業展開と取り組み
- Author:
Hisatsugu URAYAMA
1
;
Miho MATSUSHITA
2
;
Takahiro FUNAMIZU
3
Author Information
- Keywords: Classical education; Electronic materials; Classroom development; Educational diversity
- From:Journal of the Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion 2025;75(1):35-42
- CountryJapan
- Language:ja
- Abstract: In 2022, Japan College Association of Oriental Medicine established a committee to study electronic teaching materials, and a new edition of "Clinical Theory of Oriental Medicine" was published at the same time. Due in part to the promotion of ICT （Information and Communication Technology） education, which accelerated after the time of COVID-19th, not only electronic textbooks have been created, but also video teaching materials for the Introduction to Meridians and Acupuncture and Manual Examination have been conducted. In school education, textbooks are tools to convey past experience and accumulated evidence to beginning students, and are considered to be a guide to becoming an acupuncture and moxibustion practitioner. Therefore, it is necessary to consider standardized education. While attempting to create videos of meridians and acupuncture points, it became clear that there were differences among teachers in the way they touched the body surface indicators and explained them. Oriental medicine, as a traditional medicine, is based on the classics, but any discrepancy between the classics and modern medicine's EBM needs to be corrected. while ICT education and EBM are attracting attention, the decline in students' basic academic skills is also becoming an issue. Introduction to Oriental medicine and meridians and acupuncture points, which form the basis of acupuncture and moxibustion treatment, are composed of ideas and difficult technical terms that students have not been exposed to in their daily lives, so understanding and memorizing them is necessary. If this is taken as mere memorization, it may lead to a sense of dislike for the course. Under these circumstances, the educational field is searching for ways to educate the next generation. In this session, he explained the proper education of traditional medicine based on the classics under the theme of how to pass on Oriental medicine to the next generation of acupuncture and moxibustion practitioners. Next, he explained the current state of progress and issues in ICT education centered on meridians and acupuncture. Finally, he explained the teaching strategy of "oriental medicine that students can think and practice on their own" while enjoying learning without feeling that they are not good at it. It was considered necessary to examine educational content from the three perspectives of classics (past), electronic materials (future), and class development (present) in order to respond to the diversity of oriental medicine education.
