On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

1. Analyse the clinical reasoning processes central to Chinese medicine practice.
2. Evaluate the uses and relative efficacy of different TCM theories used to guide Chinese medicine diagnosis in practice.
3. Apply the use of different treatment strategies/principles for approaching complex cases.
4. Apply Chinese medicine clinical reasoning to a range of complex disorders.
5. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese medicine practice and research in relation to complex and chronic disorders.
6. Able to construct acupuncture and herbal prescriptions to apply in modern clinical conditions.

1. Introduction to clinical reasoning
2. Examination of ?ecomplex cases?f from Chinese Medicine (CM) history
3. Case histories drawn from actual contemporary practice which focus on:
- The impact of pharmaceutical drugs on The body
- long term Progression of disease
- multiple diseases coexisting
- The role of biomedical investigative tests to assist CM Diagnosis
- interaction of biomedical & CM treatments
4. Cases drawn from a range of specialties:
- Dermatology
- gastrointestinal disease
- Autoimmune disease
- Paediatrics
- liver disease
- Respiratory illness
- cardiovascular disease