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August 14, 2026Medical Acupuncture

A Thousand and One Ways to Teach Traditional Oriental Medicine: A Proposal for Latin America

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FMFelipe Abreu MárquezDPDoménica Denisse Villacís Ponce

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Overview

Narrative review demonstrates that hybrid educational frameworks integrate traditional mentorship with standardized curricula, indicating enhanced clinical competency and cultural preservation.

Key Points

  • To critically examine traditional master–apprentice and modern academic educational paradigms in Traditional East Asian Medicine and propose a hybrid pedagogical model.
  • Conducted a narrative review of literature from 2019 to 2025 across PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science in English and Spanish.
  • Applied inductive thematic analysis to identify pedagogical, ethical, and cultural dimensions across different educational models.
  • The master–apprentice model promoted robust ethical formation and fine-grained clinical reasoning but exhibited limitations in scalability, standardization, and accessibility.
  • Standardized academic frameworks enhanced institutional transparency, safety, and professionalization while risking the dilution of tacit knowledge and cultural depth.
  • The proposed hybrid framework integrates individualized mentorship and cultural preservation with competency-based curricula and objective evaluation systems.

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Márquez et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7ec707b70b84ec8b91321bhttps://doi.org/10.1177/19336586261478270
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