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Notes from teaching WHEE at St George's University Medical School in Grenada
It was a great pleasure teaching WHEE at the Complementary Medicine Selective Conference at St. George's University School of Medicine in Grenada. Several hundred students from this enormous medical school attended the conference, and dozens attended the workshops.
This is not your ordinary medical school:
There is a rigorous and demanding preparatory course for students who do not have the academic background for medical school but who are highly motivated to become doctors. If they pass the course, they are admitted to the regular medical school program. If they fail, their registration fees are refunded!
Grenada is a small island and does not have the clinical facilities for the hundreds of students in each class to continue into their clinical years. Graduates of the basic sciences courses proceed to their clinical years at affiliated medical schools in the US.
This is the good news. The bad news is that the Complementary Medicine Selective Conference is but a small part of a normal medical school curriculum. I was reminded of my own experiences in medical school in the 1960's. In many ways, little has changed since then. The academic pressures are so enormous that students are constantly stressed out to the max. There is little that they can do about their anxieties about the enormous burdens of studies, exams, finances, living in a foreign country, and an inhumane educational system.
I handled my own med student stresses by taking a year off between my second and third year in school on an NIMH Research Fellowship in Psychiatry. I had no words at that time to describe my stressful experiences, which were (and today continue to be) the expected, accepted norm for medical students.
It is very satisfying to be able to offer this generation of students the benefits of WHEE, which rapidly reduce anxieties and stress reactions and enable us to install positive thoughts and feelings to replace the negative ones we have released.
More on student stress in a following blog entry.
Blessings
Dan
http://benorwholisticblog.com/
This is not your ordinary medical school:
There is a rigorous and demanding preparatory course for students who do not have the academic background for medical school but who are highly motivated to become doctors. If they pass the course, they are admitted to the regular medical school program. If they fail, their registration fees are refunded!
Grenada is a small island and does not have the clinical facilities for the hundreds of students in each class to continue into their clinical years. Graduates of the basic sciences courses proceed to their clinical years at affiliated medical schools in the US.
This is the good news. The bad news is that the Complementary Medicine Selective Conference is but a small part of a normal medical school curriculum. I was reminded of my own experiences in medical school in the 1960's. In many ways, little has changed since then. The academic pressures are so enormous that students are constantly stressed out to the max. There is little that they can do about their anxieties about the enormous burdens of studies, exams, finances, living in a foreign country, and an inhumane educational system.
I handled my own med student stresses by taking a year off between my second and third year in school on an NIMH Research Fellowship in Psychiatry. I had no words at that time to describe my stressful experiences, which were (and today continue to be) the expected, accepted norm for medical students.
It is very satisfying to be able to offer this generation of students the benefits of WHEE, which rapidly reduce anxieties and stress reactions and enable us to install positive thoughts and feelings to replace the negative ones we have released.
More on student stress in a following blog entry.
Blessings
Dan
http://benorwholisticblog.com/
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