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Insights into Current Education of Acupuncture as a Non-Conventional Therapy in Portugal
Acupuncture, as an ancient practice for healthcare in China, is now widely used in the world and regarded as a non-conventional therapy (NCT) in many Western countries. In Portugal, acupuncture has been structured and well regulated for the market of teaching and clinical practice, but little effort...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10218294/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37239674 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11101389 |
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author | Ye, Xiao Lopes, Lara Teixeira, Ricardo Wang, Ying Machado, Jorge Pereira |
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description | Acupuncture, as an ancient practice for healthcare in China, is now widely used in the world and regarded as a non-conventional therapy (NCT) in many Western countries. In Portugal, acupuncture has been structured and well regulated for the market of teaching and clinical practice, but little effort has been put in to explore it in depth. This article aims to disclose the current education of acupuncture as a NCT in Portugal through investigation of acupuncture laws, field surveys, teaching work, and interviews with people from the NCT field. We found that according to the academic norms and rules of education in Portugal, there is a gradual difficulty in the progression and maintenance of the degree training dynamics. The reasons are the lack of more tolerant transitional measures and many practical difficulties confronted by the institutions that embark on these complementary programs. Therefore, it will be necessary to promote additional programs and measures to avoid a total emptiness of the teaching of acupuncture and at the same time losses of clinicians, competencies, and quality of information that are difficult to recover. It could be very meaningful and thought provoking to the future development and improvement of acupuncture in Portugal and in other countries that welcome acupuncture and intend to have better legislation and application. |
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spelling | pubmed-102182942023-05-27 Insights into Current Education of Acupuncture as a Non-Conventional Therapy in Portugal Ye, Xiao Lopes, Lara Teixeira, Ricardo Wang, Ying Machado, Jorge Pereira Healthcare (Basel) Article Acupuncture, as an ancient practice for healthcare in China, is now widely used in the world and regarded as a non-conventional therapy (NCT) in many Western countries. In Portugal, acupuncture has been structured and well regulated for the market of teaching and clinical practice, but little effort has been put in to explore it in depth. This article aims to disclose the current education of acupuncture as a NCT in Portugal through investigation of acupuncture laws, field surveys, teaching work, and interviews with people from the NCT field. We found that according to the academic norms and rules of education in Portugal, there is a gradual difficulty in the progression and maintenance of the degree training dynamics. The reasons are the lack of more tolerant transitional measures and many practical difficulties confronted by the institutions that embark on these complementary programs. Therefore, it will be necessary to promote additional programs and measures to avoid a total emptiness of the teaching of acupuncture and at the same time losses of clinicians, competencies, and quality of information that are difficult to recover. It could be very meaningful and thought provoking to the future development and improvement of acupuncture in Portugal and in other countries that welcome acupuncture and intend to have better legislation and application. MDPI 2023-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10218294/ /pubmed/37239674 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11101389 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Ye, Xiao Lopes, Lara Teixeira, Ricardo Wang, Ying Machado, Jorge Pereira Insights into Current Education of Acupuncture as a Non-Conventional Therapy in Portugal |
title | Insights into Current Education of Acupuncture as a Non-Conventional Therapy in Portugal |
title_full | Insights into Current Education of Acupuncture as a Non-Conventional Therapy in Portugal |
title_fullStr | Insights into Current Education of Acupuncture as a Non-Conventional Therapy in Portugal |
title_full_unstemmed | Insights into Current Education of Acupuncture as a Non-Conventional Therapy in Portugal |
title_short | Insights into Current Education of Acupuncture as a Non-Conventional Therapy in Portugal |
title_sort | insights into current education of acupuncture as a non-conventional therapy in portugal |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10218294/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37239674 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11101389 |
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