scholarly journals Comparing scientific worldviews between allopathic medical degree and East Asian medicine degree students utilizing the thinking about science survey instrument (TSSI)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saikaew Dudla ◽  
Patrick D. Herron ◽  
Paul R. Marantz ◽  
Felise B. Milan ◽  
Corbin Campbell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
College Students ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Survey Instrument ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Medical Degree ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Integrative Therapies ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background Integrative medicine has become a new healthcare model due to the growing evidence base for complementary and integrative therapies. However, some question whether complementary and integrative therapies can truly be integrated with biomedicine due to differences in underlying paradigms and theoretical bases. This study aimed to explore differences in scientific worldviews between students studying East Asian medicine and those completing an allopathic medical degree using the validated Thinking about Science Survey Instrument (TSSI). Methods 122 medical students from Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) and 48 East Asian medicine students from the Pacific College of Health and Science (Pacific College) participated in this study. Participants completed the TSSI, a 60-item Likert-scale instrument that quantitatively measures the sociocultural resistance to, and support for science. Item and category means were compared between each group using an independent sample t-test. Results Distinct differences were seen between the two groups of students with regard to age, gender distribution and prior education. Einstein students were generally supportive of science and Pacific College students were generally supportive of/positively neutral to science. Einstein students more strongly affirmed the relationship of science in relation to the categories of Epistemology, Public Health, Emotion and Aesthetics, the Economy, and Public Policy. Pacific College students more strongly affirmed the relationship between science and the category Race and Gender. There were no differences in the categories of Environment and Resource, Science for All, and Religion and Morality. Conclusion This study suggests that there are differences underlying the scientific worldviews of Einstein and Pacific College students, particularly with regard to Epistemology and Public Health. Such differences may be related to the different theoretical knowledge bases and ways of viewing health within the two disciplines. Despite demographic and educational differences between the two groups their overall scientific worldviews were similar with neither group expressing disparate views. This suggests that both groups may be receptive to the value of other paradigms. Providing courses that focus on different therapeutic approaches and paradigms during medical training may foster interprofessional understanding and collaborative practice between health professionals of different medical disciplines.

scholarly journals Scientific Worldview Differences Between Allopathic Medical Degree and East Asian Medicine Degree Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saikaew Dudla ◽  
Patrick Herron ◽  
Paul Marantz ◽  
Felise Milan ◽  
Corbin Campbell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
College Students ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Medical Degree ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Integrative Therapies ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background Integrative medicine has become a new healthcare model due to the growing evidence base for complementary and integrative therapies. However, some question whether complementary and integrative therapies can truly be integrated with biomedicine due to differences in underlying paradigms and theoretical bases. This study aimed to explore differences in scientific worldviews between students studying East Asian medicine and those completing an allopathic medical degree using the validated Thinking about Science Survey Instrument (TSSI).Methods 122 medical students from Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) and 48 East Asian medicine students from the Pacific College of Health and Science (Pacific College) participated in this study. Participants completed the TSSI, a 60-item Likert-scale instrument that quantitatively measures the sociocultural resistance to, and support for science. Item and category means were compared for each group using the two-sample t-test.Results Einstein students were generally supportive of science and Pacific College students were generally supportive of/positively neutral to science. Einstein students more strongly affirmed the relationship of science in relation to the categories of Epistemology, Public Health, Emotion and Aesthetics, the Economy, and Public Policy. Pacific College students more strongly affirmed the relationship between science and the category Race and Gender. There were no differences in the categories of Environment and Resource, Science for All, and Religion and Morality.Conclusion This study suggests that there are differences underlying the scientific worldviews of Einstein and Pacific College students, particularly with regard to Epistemology and Public Health. Such differences may be related to the different theoretical knowledge bases and ways of viewing health within the two disciplines. Our study also suggests that both groups may be receptive to the value of other paradigms. Providing courses that focus on different therapeutic approaches and paradigms during medical training may foster interprofessional understanding and collaboration between providers of different medical disciplines.

scholarly journals Understanding Mind-Body Interaction from the Perspective of East Asian Medicine

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye-Seul Lee ◽  
Yeonhee Ryu ◽  
Won-Mo Jung ◽  
Jungjoo Kim ◽  
Taehyung Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The Body ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Document Frequency ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

Objective. Attempts to understand the emotion have evolved from the perspective of an independent cognitive system of the mind to that of an interactive response involving the body. This study aimed to quantify and visualize relationships between different emotions and bodily organ systems from the perspective of East Asian medicine. Methods. Term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) method was used to quantify the significance of Five Viscera and the gallbladder relative to seven different emotions through the classical medical text of DongUiBoGam. Bodily organs that corresponded to different emotions were visualized using a body template. Results. The emotions had superior tf-idf values with the following bodily organs: anger with the liver, happiness with the heart, thoughtfulness with the heart and spleen, sadness with the heart and lungs, fear with the kidneys and the heart, surprise with the heart and the gallbladder, and anxiety with the heart and the lungs. Specific patterns between the emotions and corresponding bodily organ systems were identified. Conclusion. The present findings will further the current understanding of the relationship between the mind and body from the perspective of East Asian medicine. Western medicine characterizes emotional disorders using “neural” language while East Asian medicine uses “somatic” language.

scholarly journals The association between the use of biomedical services and the holistic use of traditional East Asian medicine: a national survey of outpatients in South Korea

BMJ Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. e018414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae-Mahn Shim ◽  
Yun-Suk Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
National Survey ◽  
East Asian ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Ordered Logistic Regression ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Representative National Sample ◽  
The Relationship

ObjectivesThe holistic use of a system of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is potentially linked to its treatment outcomes. This paper examines how the use of biomedicine is associated with the holistic use of CAM, focusing on traditional East Asian medicine (EM) that is uniquely integrated in the medical system in South Korea.Design/SettingsA representative national sample of EM outpatients in South Korea.Participants3861 survey respondents.MethodsBy using the 2011 Korean National Survey of EM patients, ordered logistic regression models specify the relationship between EM outpatients’ use of biomedicine and their holistic use of EM modalities.ResultsAmong EM outpatients who used at least one EM modality in the past 3 months, people who used two (33.3%) or three (29.4%) modalities together are the two highest proportions, followed by users of four (18.1%), five (7.2%), six (2.1%) and seven (0.6%) modalities. The odds for EM users to use EM holistically are 17% greater among EM users who used biomedicine as well, compared with EM users who did not use biomedicine.ConclusionsThe healthcare community should recognise that CAM use likely becomes holistic as people use biomedicine concomitantly, when the practice rights over a CAM system are comprehensively and exclusively entitled to a group of CAM professionals who are independent from practitioners of biomedicine.

Expanded Possibilities for Teaching Asian Medicines

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-326
Author(s):  
Marta Hanson ◽  
Sarah Zanolini ◽  
Natalie Köhle ◽  
Dexter Kendrick ◽  
Alexander O. Hsu
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Medical Tradition ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
New Type ◽  
Institutional Contexts

Abstract Asian Medicine is inaugurating a new type of article in this issue, the pedagogical forum. For our launch of this new format, forum editors Zanolini and Hanson invited a range of scholars and practitioners teaching East Asian medicine within diverse institutional contexts to contribute. Their different approaches to teaching can be more broadly applied to any medical tradition in Asia.

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