SIG LEADERS:

Rosa Schnyer; Heidi Most; Beau Anderson; Lisa Conboy; Rosaleen Ostrick

SAR’s Special Interest Group for Educators is a group of acupuncturists, professors, and researchers that formed at the SAR Symposium in June 2019, with the goal of improving the teaching of research skills in general and acupuncture research in particular to East Asian Medicine (EAM) students. Research skills and knowledge are becoming increasingly necessary as the profession moves towards integration with mainstream medicine and more practitioners choose to work in collaboration with other allied health professions. In the four years since that meeting, our group has created a survey to assess EAM students’ attitudes towards research and a model research curriculum, with an introductory slideshow on the history and evolution of acupuncture research. Both of these projects were presented in a poster at the 2021 SAR Symposium. Our motto could be “teachers talking to teachers.” We are hopeful that this collaboration of EAM schools can expand in the future and we welcome your participation.

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