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Acupuncture and Chinese medicine board exam preparation : the bad, the worse, and the ugly

on 07/21/2009 by Eric Grey in Study and Scholarship

I recently took and passed three NCCAOM board exams. I think I may have lost months and years of my life’s energy in doing so. It was one of the more annoying testing experiences of my life. This was the case due to a number of factors, and none of them have to do with [...]

5 Things to Look forward to after graduation : Chinese medicine post-graduate education

on 06/10/2009 by Eric Grey in Study and Scholarship

I thought I would make a list of the five things I’m most looking forward to doing after I graduate. This does not include the usual suspects : getting more sleep, spending more time with family and friends, taking fewer tests, etc… It also doesn’t include the very exciting new developments of running a business [...]

Listening my way to success in the NCCAOM acupuncture board exam

on 06/09/2009 by Eric Grey in Study and Scholarship

Update : I passed! :) As I said before, I’ve been spending a significant amount of time studying for and taking my NCCAOM acupuncture board exams. As I said in my last post… “…I’ve successfully completed the foundations and biomedicine exams already. I found them to be much different from what I was expecting. I [...]

Reading widely to learn Chinese medicine

on 12/26/2008 by Eric Grey in Study and Scholarship

It’s been almost four years, now, that I’ve been doing focused and formal study of Chinese medicine. Over that time, I’ve tried many study methods. Some of them were only useful during some specific part of my education, and still others were rejected because they didn’t work for me over the long haul. Others did [...]

Still learning Chinese medicine : through the birth canal

on 12/09/2008 by Eric Grey in Study and Scholarship

I’ve been thinking about writing for about two weeks – I looked back at a couple of posts I wrote recently and realized that I had resolved to write more frequently. The idea was to just put out there what I was learning. A noble goal – and one to which I am still committed. [...]

How to make the transition from forced study to self-motivated study

on 07/16/2008 by Eric Grey in Study and Scholarship

Now that I am in my fourth year of schooling in Classical Chinese Medicine, the “academic” pressures lessen in a number of ways. We have a few classes outside of clinic, but they are not academically rigorous in the way that Acupuncture points and Herbal formulas classes were. Our focus now is clinic and our [...]