Sticking Together, March 2020
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Clinics in the Time of Covid-19 | | Susan Wiggins from Long Beach Community Acupuncture started a thread in the POCA forums to discuss precautions that Community Clinics should be taking to address safety concerns amid the Covid-19 pandemic. That thread is over three pages with punks chiming in, sharing information and supporting each other in real time. Everyone with a clinic or a punk membership can read and participate in this thread or this one.
There are also discussions happening on Facebook's POCA Chat group. | | Did you know that the POCA Store has books and T-shirts. We have lots of stock and usually ship quickly. | | | POCA logo merchandise is available from Zazzle. Items have been designed by, and for, POCA members. POCA receives a portion of all sales. | | | The Fall POCAfest will be held October 23-25 at Camp Aldersgate in North Scituate, Rhode Island. There will be more info coming soon, including an open call for proposals and registration.
If you are interested in helping organize this POCAfest, please comment in this Forum post. | | | The new CEU course is POCA Fest Clinic Skills 2019. This course is a look at three breakout session from the POCA Fest in Milwaukee:
- How to treat common mental and physical health conditions such as anxiety, depression, stress, insomnia, and chronic pain,
- Commonly used muscle motor points that can be easily used in a community acupuncture setting. We will discuss needle technique, depth, and location, and
- Shonishin Pediatric Acupuncture
The videos of these breakout sessions were generously made by Jade Fang.
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| NCCAOM and ASA are doing a free webinar on Wednesday, April 1st, to explain the missions of their two different organizations in the advancement of the profession.
Attendees will get 2 free CEU's/PDA's. | | | Eana Meng's senior thesis on the Acupuncture Profession and the opioid epidemic. She wrote this last year as her undergrad thesis at Harvard. | | | |
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