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Let’s take a look at the “principles of Chinese medicine”. Understanding The 5 Core Principles of Chinese Medicine - The ChalkboardOUR BODIES RESPOND TO THE ENVIRONMENT AROUND USYOUR BODY KNOWS HOW TO HEAL ITSELFEVERY PART OF YOUR BODY IS CONNECTEDYIN, YANG seemingly opposite or contrary forces have an interconnected, complementary and interdependent relationship. They feed each other as they interrelate to one anotherOUTSIDE FACTORS AFFECT BALANCE IN THE BODYShould those be studied by medical science? Can they be studied by medical science>Perhaps we should ask first, “What are the principles of Modern Medicine”.The Principles and Practice of Medicine - Wikipedia is about a book published in 1892. Wikipedia does not list any principles. Why not?https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC81625/ A PUBMED post titled “The modern scientific physician: 7. Theory of medicine” from 2001, points out that“Osler's The Principles and Practice of Medicine did not, despite its title, address the principles of medicine at all” andadds, “A current textbook entitled Principles of Internal Medicine has an early section entitled “Quantitative Aspects of Clinical Reasoning.” This section begins with quite a telling passage: “The process of clinical reasoning is poorly understood but is based on factors such as experience and learning, inductive and deductive reasoning, interpretation of evidence ... and intuition that often is difficult to define”.The conclusion of the PubMed article is that “there indeed is said, implicitly, to be no established body of theory for setting gnostic probabilities and, what is more, no commitment to pursue it and the deployment of general knowledge in such a logically tenable framework”Therefore, for example, the University of Southern California offers a course titled: Basic Principles Underlying Modern Medicine -- Mini Medical School for the Public Presented by UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine -and the content? It includes the following videos:A New Era in Medicine: Looking Through the Genetic Lens"CSI": Fact vs. Fiction from the Perspective of a PathologistRadiology and BeyondLife in the ER: The ABC's of Emergency MedicineBut does not offer any “principles of modern medicine”.The Tragedy of Modern Medicine by Raymond Francis, states:“Here is the truth: outside of trauma care and crisis intervention, modern medicine doesn’t work. What is needed is to collapse all this confusion, complexity, and mystery into a few simple governing principles that practitioners and patients alike can put to use to prevent and reverse disease.”There are no principles of modern medicine. None. There is, as the PubMed article points out, no interest in pursuing any principles of modern medicine.To presume to test the principles of Chinese medicine “scientifically” is nonsense. On what basis would any test be made?Would modern medicine be able to learn that the Principles of Chinese Medicine are more valuable than all of the “non-principles of modern medicine in existence today?” I doubt it.to your health, tracyFounder: Healthicine

Many opportunities to demonstrate broader impact are obvious:Any role in education, not necessarily just science, demonstrating that you have teaching and communication skills. I didn’t think I had much to write about, but then I went through all the activities I’d participated in and realized I had experiences as diverse asComputer Science course assistant[1]teaching kids about science and cooking in a free summer program[2]helping Chinatown immigrants learn English and civics for the US citizenship exam[3]SAT tutoring[4]middle school leadership skills[5]science education in elementary schools[6]choreography and dance teaching[7] , but I left that one out because I ran out of space!Involvement in organizations that help undergrads apply to graduate school, whether by holding panel discussions or application-editing workshopsVolunteer to judge local schools’ science fairsLeadership roles are great!I ended up being leader of our science education team because no one else wanted to coordinate emails and schedules, but it ended up being a big plus on my application. All my other activities I was only a volunteer.My least-impressed reviewer said, “The proposal would be further improved if the applicant can describe more detail about her role in such activities such as if she is in a leadership position in those activities or if she develops curricula for those programs.”Proposing to mentor an undergrad or high school student during grad school.Some are less obvious:It may sound strange, but some elementary school kids don’t think you can be a scientist or engineer if you are a woman, speak Spanish, or belong to any number of underrepresented groups. It’s silly that just EXISTING in the presence of impressionable minds is a form of broader impacts, but it’s also silly that kids think women can’t be scientists. So I figured it was justifiable to talk about inspiring more young women to take an interest in science, math, and engineering. If you have a way to inspire minorities, don’t feel bad about it, just do it!You can also join organizations like SWE that specifically addresses these underrepresented groups.In my undergrad lab, we got a new postdoc who was interested in some assays I knew, so I taught her how to do them. Mentoring in a formal capacity is rare for an undergrad or beginning grad student, but even simple things like this show that you have the potential to be a research mentor.If you have space, it’s nice to include a specific description of what you would teach. Reviewers have seen the words “participate in science outreach” a million times, but you can do something unique! This demonstrates that you have put actual thought into your proposed outreach. I was proposing a spine-related project, and I wrote:Students will be provided with a range of kid-friendly building blocks, like marshmallows, lifesavers, and fruit, and challenged to build a spinal motion segment that can hold up under load. This edible lesson will be a fun and hands-on way to learn about material properties like stiffness, strength, and toughness, and how they contribute to the overall stability of the spine.It sounds really self-evident, but yes, writing your research in journal articles or conference presentations is a valid form of broader impacts.Look around your area for opportunities to speak to the public, whether that’s through a museum or public library. Your institution itself probably has plenty! In Berkeley there are Science@Cal[8] and East Bay Science Café lectures[9]. At UCSF I often see talks like “Mini Medical School[10] and “Science for the Rest of Us”[11]. I wrote that I would share my results through these avenues. (Not discussed: whether my results would be good enough to talk about…)Set up a collaboration between different labs or institutions. According to the NSF website,“Enhance infrastructure for research and education, for example, by establishing collaborations with researchers in industry and government laboratories, developing partnerships with international academic institutions and organizations, and building networks of U.S. colleges and universities.”Footnotes[1] This is CS50[2] Science and Cooking for Kids[3] Chinatown Citizenship[4] CHANCE[5] Harvard College Youth Leadership Initiative[6] Community Resources for Science[7] AADT[8] The Science at Cal Lecture Series[9] East Bay Science Cafe[10] Osher Center for Integrative Medicine[11] Academic Business Officers Group (ABOG)