Dr. Adrianus Wong
Dr. Adrianus Wong holds a Medical Doctor degree from Trisakti University in Indonesia and was trained as a general physician as well as in structural palpation-based acupuncture for physicians at Harvard Medical School. He later earned his Doctorate in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Dongguk University of Los Angeles. His professional career has been focused on the integration of clinical practice, academic teaching, and academic administrative leadership. In Indonesia, he successfully founded the first medical acupuncture department in Arsani Hospital, promoting acupuncture services and education for both in-patient and out-patient care. Dr. Wong is passionate about graduate medical education, academic and program improvement. His goal and dream is to promote a higher quality of graduate medical education in acupuncture and traditional medicine in the United States that is centered in its independent diagnostic patterns and aligned with the competency based training.
System Thinking and Clinical reasoning in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Course Objectives:
The course will focus on the literature within a medical education and similar concept that can be adopted by the program leadership and educators to the profession of acupuncture and traditional medicine. The course explores and identifies the current social needs within the profession of acupuncture and traditional medicine. Issues and problems related to the profession will also be discussed in accordance to the recommendation that can be adopted by the program and profession as common solution. Discussion related to system thinking in medicine, patient-centered care, integrative medicine and competency based training and graduate medical education will also be reviewed and correlated to the principle of practice in acupuncture and traditional medicine. The concept of clinical diagnostic reasoning that serves as the foundation of cognitive thinking of clinician will be reviewed and compared to support the alignment with the competency-based training in acupuncture and traditional medicine program and profession. Common terminology including key features, semantic qualifiers and illness script will be discussed to further understand the concept of clinical diagnostic reasoning.
Course Learning Outcome:
- Identify the social needs of acupuncture and traditional medicine
- Identify the concept of system thinking in medicine, patient-centered care and integrative medicine
- Recognize the independent diagnosis as a core of competency in acupuncture and traditional medicine practice
- Describe the core principle of competency-based medical education, common adopted model, learner’s development and model for assessment
- Discuss the concept of clinical diagnostic reasoning and how its principle of thinking can define and provide guidelines to the profession of acupuncture and traditional medicine
- Recognize the concept of key features, semantic qualifiers and illness script
- List the common errors within the diagnostic process
- Discuss the differences between clinical practitioner, clinical instructor and learners in accordance to the development of professional competency
Brief Outline of Lecture Content:
- 1 – 1:50 pm : Social needs of the profession of acupuncture and traditional medicine
- 2 – 2:50 pm : System thinking and patient-centered care as a principle of integrative medicine
- 3 – 3:50 pm : Introduction to competency-based medical education, common adopted model, and understanding the development of competency and model for assessment
- 4 – 4:50 pm : Concept of clinical diagnostic reasoning, semantic qualifiers, key features and illness script
- 5 – 5:50 pm : Common errors in diagnostic process, case-based learning, differences in thinking and challenges between practitioner and learner
Lecture Files
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