TESTS - Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion

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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Tele-consultation
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A comprehensive medical services provided by a private
group of TCM experts

This is a well-arranged medical tele-consultation program developed by a private team of Chinese experts from the top TCM research center, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and its affiliated Guanganmen Hospital in Beijing, for overseas clients who seek complementary medical information and treatments.

It is our goal to provide our clients with quality and timely services in all aspects of TCM. We also believe that through this kind of communication, our foreign colleagues who will use this system may exchange with our Chinese experts some academic ideas on real cases in the hope of upgrading their TCM skills.

To better understand a case's present health condition, we need those doctors or practitioners who will cooperate with us to complete our medical record either in English or Chinese. All the information in the medical records will be carefully studied by our experts, and a feedback including a diagnosis, recommended TCM treatments (herbal and acupuncture prescriptions), suggestions of health care, etc. will be available within a couple of days. If you need and your doctor or practitioner agree with the treatment plan, we can even arrange delivery of the herbal medicine directly from our hospital. If you are interested in consulting this system, please contact us at cuiyongq@public.fhnet.cn.net

Preface

The TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) education and examination programme is sponsored by the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Entrusted by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ministry of Public Health of the People's Republic of China sponsored its first formal acupuncture training course for foreign doctors in 1981 and from then on, normalized TCM education and examinations began to spread worldwide.

This selection of examination questions in TCM is offered in the hope that it may be found useful in any of the following four ways:

1. As a source of ready-made questions for use by examiners of TCM-related organizations.
2. As a source of ideas which may aid examiners in the construction of new questions.
3. As an aid to candidates planning to take TCM examinations and to score high on them.
4. As a means by which students can assess their own progress in acquiring TCM knowledge.

The questions in this book will show you what is required and therefore help you get the most out of your studies. You will also get the "feel" of the examination. This book contains many "similar situations" -as you will discover when you take the actual examinations in China and abroad.

In going over the questions in this book, you will not-if you use this book properly-be satisfied merely with the answer to a particular question. You will want to do additional study on the other choices for the same questions. In this way you will broaden your background, which will help your preparation for the examination or your treat~ ment of the patients.

Included in this book are multiple-choice and traditional questions, both focusing on the mastery of basic TCM theory, acupuncture and manipulations, diagnosis and case analysis. There is now growing evidence to suggest that these questions appear simultaneously in all kinds of examinations, as are being demonstrated daily in China.

The answers appear at the back and, where available, a figure is provided showing the facility of the question. This is derived from the average proportion of candidates correctly answering the question over all the occasions when it has been used in formal examinations. It has to be emphasized also that all the answers involved in this book do not go far from the textbooks Essentials of Chinese Acupuncture and Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion published by Foreign Languages Press.

If you would like further information on TCM training courses, please write me at: Guanganmen Hospital, China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100053, China

Dr. Cui Yongqiang, M.D.
International Clinical TCM Training Centre,
Guanganmen Hospital,
China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Collaborating Centre of Traditional Medicine
World Health Organization (WHO)
Dec, 15, 1999