Construction and transformation of a contemporary acupuncture and moxibustion education paradigm.

Education paradigm is a relatively stable action structure of education and training and its practical effect. The construction of a modern acupuncture and moxibustion education paradigm is a complicated historical process, which not only follows the internal logic of the academic development of acupuncture and moxibustion, but is also influenced by the development of modern education paradigm and medical and health services. With the establishment of modern acupuncture and moxibustion discipline, marked by Science of Acupuncture and Moxibustion written by the Teaching and Research Group of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Discipline of Jiangsu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1957, the education and training model of acupuncture and moxibustion specialized talents in modern traditional Chinese medicine higher education is gradually formed, and solidified into college professional education model in the 1980s. Deconstructing the problems existing in the contemporary education paradigm of acupuncture and moxibustion mainly include the contradictions and problems between connotation and structure, formation and development, discipline and specialty, and level type and function. The transformation of the modern acupuncture and moxibustion education paradigm can be promoted by studying industry demands, revising training objective, defining discipline connotation, adjusting teaching content, learning from advanced concepts, and changing teaching modes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]