My internship experience, definetly will help me decide wheter or not
There isn't really any social interaction at my internship because everybody works in their own section of the building. Because of this, there isn't that much collaboration either. This social dynamic puts your performance in your hands and yours only.
Who benefits from our work? Well if you didn't already know, the patients. Me of course to. I get to see what happens in a acupuncture session, and I even get an explanation of say, why the point on the left calve can instantaneously relieve shoulder pain and expand upon the patients range of movement. Overall, a typical day at my internship for me consists of filing, observing short 30-60 minute treatments, and setting up rooms. Being a 11th
Our purpose is to treat patients with the safety, hygeine
At the clinic today, I was just digging around an stumbled upon a chart, that shows how the tounge is a map of the current status of diffrent regions in the body I then went with my mentor to observe her treating one of the patients, and learned that this map is actual used in the diagnosis, and is accurate. The patient I observed had a heart condition, and as I looked at his tounge, where the heart region is was a... deformation.
Below is a picture of one of the rooms. My mentor for internship actually happens to be my aunt, she graduated in the December of 2014 from PCOM with a masters in traditional oriental medicine and became a licensed acupuntruist in April 2015. She currnently owns her own studio in North Park, and also works at a El Cajon clinic called "Joel's Massage and Hollistic Center".
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