Comparative Study on the Education System of Traditional Medicine in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan

Park, Yu Lee; Huang, Ching Wen; Sasaki, Yui; Ko, Youme; Park, Sunju; Ko, Seong‐Gyu

doi:10.1016/j.explore.2016.06.004

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“…A possible reason for this trend is the fact that the Taiwanese government has actively promoted the training of Chinese medicine practitioners. 18 All physicians must obtain state licences and receive regular acupuncture safety training. Also, research into and promotion of safe needling depth in Taiwan appears to have helped reduce the incidence of pneumothorax after acupuncture.…”

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Incidence of iatrogenic pneumothorax following acupuncture treatments in Taiwan

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Background: Pneumothorax is a rare complication of acupuncture and the risk factors are unclear. Objective: This study analysed the incidence of post-acupuncture pneumothorax requiring hospitalisation in a one-million-sample cohort derived from Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database. Methods: We tracked this cohort between 1997 and 2012 and recorded all medical insurance information. Subjects were categorised according to gender, insurance amount, comorbidities, residential area, and number of acupuncture treatments. Pneumothorax risk was evaluated according to different demographic and medical variables by logistic regression analysis using an adjusted odds ratio (aOR) with a 95% confidence interval (95% CI). Results: Overall, 411 734 patients undergoing 5 407 378 acupuncture treatments were identified with data collected over the first 7 days after acupuncture. The incidence rates of iatrogenic pneumothorax were 0.87 per 1 000 000 acupuncture treatments overall and 1.75 per 1 000 000 acupuncture treatments in “at-risk” anatomical areas. Multivariate logistic regression demonstrated that a history of thoracic surgery (aOR 7.85, 95% CI 3.49 to 9.25), chronic bronchitis (aOR 2.61, 95% CI 1.03 to 6.87), emphysema (aOR 4.87, 95% CI 1.03 to 7.96), pneumonia (aOR 2.09, 95% CI 1.44 to 2.72), tuberculosis (aOR 3.65, 95% CI 1.39 to 9.56), and lung cancer (aOR 3.85, 95% CI 1.53 to 9.73) may increase the post-acupuncture risk of iatrogenic pneumothorax. Men had a higher risk of pneumothorax than women (aOR 3.41, 95% CI 1.36 to 8.57). The number of treatments was not associated with risk of pneumothorax. Conclusions: Patients with a history of lung disease including chronic bronchitis, emphysema, tuberculosis, lung cancer and pneumonia, and a history of thoracic surgery, might have an increased post-acupuncture risk of pneumothorax. This information may possibly help physicians avoid post-acupuncture pneumothorax.

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“…Otherwise, students' exam scores might be negatively influenced if they don't study following a clear step-by-step plan. This is associated with medical education institutions and systems between western countries and Asian countries, in which medical students are required to pass all exams about basic and clinical sciences before national licensing examination and internships, followed by further standardized training (Park et al 2016). Certainly, the designs of the educational systems in these countries could ensure the effectiveness of cultivating medical students, but these also take a toll on the enthusiasm of medical students at the same time.…”

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Investigating the medical study of overseas students at Jinan University Medical School

Zhang¹,

Guang²,

Xin³

et al. 2017

IJHE

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A great number of overseas students have studied medicine at Jinan University Medical School over the past decade. Statistics from the past ten years show that these students' test scores on diagnosis and medicine I & II are lower than those of their classmates from mainland China. To address the underlying causes of this phenomenon, we implemented a series of questionnaires for overseas and mainland Chinese medical students. The results indicate that there are no significant differences between overseas students and mainland Chinese students with regard to their attitude towards the study of medicine, their approval of the teaching and learning environments or their ability to improve their independent study capabilities at Jinan University Medical School; however, overseas students prefer to study at night and sleep later than their mainland Chinese classmates. One outstanding difference between these groups is that overseas students like to arrange their studies based on their interests, regardless of available time and subject contents, and this might lead them to perform poorly on examinations during their academic term at Jinan University Medical School. Overseas students might not have achieved scores as high as their Chinese classmates is that they do not completely focus on the content taught by teachers in class, which would later be assessed by exams at the end of each academic term. This observation is actually part of our medical educational concepts, especially in Chinese medical schools. Attention should be paid by both overseas students and medical schools to this discrepancy.

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“…In countries such as the USA, Chile, Cuba, Switzerland and Germany, more than 40% of the population generally uses traditional and complementary medicine once a year (Park et al, 2016). Traditional Chinese medicine dates back to 2000 years.…”

Section: Traditional and Complementary Medicinementioning

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Traditional and Complementary Medicine From Health Tourism Perspective

Tosun

Demir²,

Sağlik

2020

International Journal of Health Management and Tourism

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Health tourism, which is defined as travels for treatment, staying fit, protecting and improving health, has become an important source of income for countries in the last 20 years. Depending on globalization and the development of technology, the number of tourists traveling for health purposes is increasing rapidly in the world. In parallel with these increases, the demand for traditional and complementary medicine applications and products in the world is increasing. In Europe, more than 100 million people are traveling to receive these applications, and 25 million people are using traditional and complementary medicine products. These travels and expenditures provide significant income to the national economies. In Turkey, there has been an increase in both investments in health tourism and investments in traditional and complementary medicine applications and products in recent years.Turkey aims to gain more economic gains through its natural beauties, advanced medical infrastructure and recent investments on traditional and complementary medicine. With this conceptual study, it is aimed to address the Concept of traditional and complementary medicine from the perspective of health tourism.

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Comparative Study on the Education System of Traditional Medicine in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan

Cited by 24 publications

References 9 publications

Incidence of iatrogenic pneumothorax following acupuncture treatments in Taiwan

Incidence of iatrogenic pneumothorax following acupuncture treatments in Taiwan

Investigating the medical study of overseas students at Jinan University Medical School

Traditional and Complementary Medicine From Health Tourism Perspective

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