Objective Testing and Evaluation of Teaching and Learning for Acupuncture Manipulation

The plan " Objective testing and evaluation of teaching and learning for Acupuncture manipulation " attempts to take an objective observation of the subjects in the study of acupuncture manipulation operations, record operating acupuncture needles form of exercise, intensity, etc. We want to include the fourth grade and eighth grade students of Traditional Chinese Medicine school, as well as residents and attending physicians of Chinese medicine department. The experimental group was planed to use the oral instructions teaching demonstration movie with sensor Acusensor2TM to demo the acupuncture manipulation operation process. The control group was planed to use oral instructions teaching demonstration movie to illustrate the operation. The experimental and control groups watching instructional videos two times. Then the “Dragon and Tiger warring” method based on twisting-rotating, and “Dragon and Tiger warring” method based on lifting and thrusting were performed, each five times. Every other week, then repeat the same subjects in accordance with the same procedure. We set out operational definitions, Acusensor2TM provide parameters such as lift and thrust, twisting, intensity, frequency and torque measurement could be used to study the forms of exercise of acupuncture needles for acupuncture manipulation. The parameters studied for acupuncture manipulation could provide objective quantitative comparative analysis for effectiveness of learning and for statistical analysis.

Project ID:PF10406-3004
External Project ID:MOST104-2511-S182-005