AAMA Newsletter, March 2000

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AAMA Newsletter
Serving the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture
March 2000

Slide, CD-ROM packages available

     Do you have a talk about acupuncture coming up? Have you been delaying offering to talk to your hospital staff about medical acupuncture because you don’t have time to put a presentation together? Then you should know that AAMA’s “packaged” acupuncture talk is now available.
     The long-awaited talk, “Medical Acupuncture: The Best of Both Worlds,” is now ready. This is a basic introduction to medical acupuncture for AAMA members to use for a variety of audiences, from a public talk to grand rounds for your departments; from 50-90 minutes to segmental use for a two-day workshop. This is based on AAMA President Dr. Bryan Frank’s time-proven presentations.
     Two formats are available:

Slide presentations ($50). A set of 68 slides and an audience handout, and both a paper and outline for the speaker.
A CD-ROM disk in Power Point format ($25).

The same materials noted above are all contained on a CD with directions included on how to access the handouts, etc. The CD is readable by both PC and Macintosh computers. You will need the following to use the CD-ROM disk for a Power Point presentation:

A CD player in a laptop or the CD program loaded into the hard drive.
Power Point software program.
A multimedia projector with a video expansion cable. (These are often available from a hospital A/V department or library, or can be rented—usually for $400–$500 from a hotel where you will be speaking usually paid by the organization sponsoring the conference.).
PC computer users may need a Proxima or Dukane program.
PC users may need a Pack N Go program to set up the slides on the desktop.
A slide screen.

     You should check with the locations where you are likely to speak to see if they are experienced with Power Point presentations and have the above equipment before you order. If in doubt, it is probably safer to order the set of slides.
     Be creative with this! You can scan in pictures or add slides from your last trip to China or additional points that you want to make for a specific audience.
     Wendy Page-Echols, DO, has found it effective to show the AAMA video before the slide presentation to introduce the talk and then get into the history of acupuncture mechanisms, clinical evidence and medical indications with the slides.
     Future versions will have updated clinical research, learning objectives for your sponsoring organization and whatever else you think is important. Please send feedback to Executive Administrator James Dowden at Academy headquarters. To order, call (323/937-5514) or e-mail (jdowden@prodigy.net) the Academy office. Orders must be accompanied by a check or a credit card payment.

Calendar

March 17–19, 2000 Energetics and the Curious Meridians Edgewater Hotel (800/624-0670) Sponsor: AAMA Washington Chapter, 360/385-4843 Seattle, WA (Mention AAMA to hotel)
March 18–19, 2000 Japanese Acupuncture with Kiiko Matsumoto Holiday Inn, BWI Airport, Baltimore, MD For registration/info, call Nader Soliman, MD, 301/251-2335 Sponsor: AAMA Maryland Chapter
April 15–16, 2000 Master Kawaii: Modern Japanese Acupuncture Techniques Regis College, Weston, MA 12 CEU’s, 508/733-3222, dudinka@aol.com, $225 Sponsor: Kiiko Matsumoto Intl.
May 11–14, 2000 ICMART 9th World Congress on Medical Acupuncture Vienna, Austria Icmart2000@verkehrsbuero.at (Registration deadline: 3/31) +43/1/588 00-513
May 11–15, 2000 Five Element Acupuncture for Physicians Advanced Course Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada Instructors Drs. Charles Moss & Ron Puhky, 858/457-1314 25 hours CEU
May 15–20, 2000 Traditional Chinese Acupuncture for Physicians Santa Barbara, CA Part II Sept. 11–16 Instructor Anita Cignolini, MD, 323/442-1313 120 hours AAFP CME
May 26–28, 2000 Third Intl. Symposium Auriculotherapy & Auriculomedicine Lyons, France marignan@online.fr, isabelle. Email:glem@accesinternet.com Website: www.upml.fr/glem
Phone: (33 4 72 41 80 08)
June 1–3, 2000 American Holistic Medical Association 22nd Annual Conference Loew’s Ventana Cyn. Resort, Tucson, AZ Speaker Larry Dossey, MD, 703/556-9245, 25 Category 1 CME Sponsor: Banner Health Systems
June 12–16, 2000 Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine (also offered 11/6-10) Boston Marriott, Massachusetts Sponsor: Harvard Medical School, 30 CME, 617/432-1525 617/236-5800
Aug. 23–27, 2000 4th World Congress of Medical Acupuncture & Natural Med. Shaw Convention Centre President Steven KH Aung, MD, skha@aung.com, 800/815-1116 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Oct. 7–8, 2000 Acupuncture Society of Michigan course Ann Arbor, MI Instructor May Loo, MD, 734/665-8313 Sponsor: ASM
Oct. 25–28, 2000 Pan Pacific Acupuncture Conference Paris Hotel, Las Vegas, NV To present paper or topic, call Nader Soliman, MD 301/251-2335 Sponsor: AAMA

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