Today was the second (and final) week of what my acupuncture school calls "Practitioner Observation." Basically, I go into clinic and work on patients as I normally would in my practice, and then answer any and all questions from the observing students... Last week, I treated it more as a classroom exercise. I had no formal patients come in, so instead, I treated a student... We performed the intake together, with the other observing students asking questions, etc. I think it was an all around success, a good exercise in the whole intake procedure... And I got to do Kiiko Matsumoto Style Acupuncture, which is VERY DIFFERENT (almost an entirely different species) from Traditional Chinese Acupuncture (as is taught and tested in the school).
LO and behold, this week one of the students comes in with a friend who had just been studying and practicing intensely with Kiiko Matsumoto herself! And, as again there were no formal patients, this friend volunteers to be the patient! Talk about intimidation! I mean, everything I know of Kiiko Matsumoto Style comes from a couple of seminars I attended in San Francisco, and careful study of all the books she's written... I've never worked with the woman myself (I once made her crack up at a seminar when I mentioned that, in Hawaii, all we watch is "Soko ga Shiritai" and [in that voice] "Abarenbo Shogun!")... Still, I tried my best, again, treated it like a good classroom exercise... Did some Kiiko Matsumoto, and then some more musculoskeletal stuff on the patient's back... It was a success, both for the students, and for my "patient." She gave me some pointers at the end ("Kiiko actually does it this way"), but she really enjoyed and appreciated the treatment.
THANK GOD PRACTITIONER OBSERVATION IS OVER!
And, as this is Finals Week, after this, school will be over for at least a few weeks!!!
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