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2004 Faculty Excellence Award Winners
Clinical Excellence: Tao Gong, MCAOM
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Dr. Gong is excellent in teaching clinic
supervision.She has excellent acupuncture techniques and
knowledge in traditional Chinese medicine, enabling her to
treat complicated cases while explaining how to manipulate
the treatments in detail to her interns, allowing them to
get the desired therapeutic results . Dr. Gong is willing
to help all interns, offering support to them. She is patient
with them, making sure their questions are answered and their
understanding complete. She actively seeks feedback from
her interns and implements adjustment to improve her supervising. |
Excellence
in Research, Scholarship or Creative Activities: Dr. Lynne
Hvidsten, Clinical Education
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Dr. Hvidsten instigated research on the T7
Developmental Assessment. This research was designed to answer
three questions 1) how reliable are the ratings for information
gathering, clinical thinking and interpersonal skills? 2)
were these variables substantially correlated? and 3) are
the subscales themselves associated? This reserach has been
peer reviewed and accepted for presentation on local, national
and international levels. Dr. Hvidsten encourages the department
in regards to research activities and continues to maintain
statistics on numerous assessments for future research. Her
creative accomplishments go beyond research to development
of unique setting for students to obtain and meet their clinical
requirements. One of these is an on-going support and encouragement
of intern experiences in La Clinica Mariposa in Costa Rica.
She also encourages creative approaches including a completely
new form of intership experience, innovated and implemented
under her direction. |
Excellence
in Teaching: Dr. Mei Wang, MCAOM
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Dr. Wang is well-prepared for her classes,
distributing professional, detailed notes that are well-thought
out and easy to understand. She works with students individually
to make sure they understand and that no student is left
behind. She is approachable and encouraging in the classroom,
the clinic and outside of that too, making her a well-liked
and respected professor. Dr. Wang carries over knowledge
from her Herb classes into the Herbal pharmacy, making a
deeper connection with the students to learn. She makes individual
cases in the clinic a teachable moments for all interns to
learn from. She holds special training classes and review
session to assist students in learning the herbs and how
they interact with one another. She spends hours with a Chinese/English
dictionary, translating her notes from Chinese into English
so that students understand the Chinese names in an English
context. Dr. Wang has worked effectively at bridging the
cultural gap between the Chinese Approach to education and
the Western approach. |
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