There is an impressive line up of speakers and social events. These Congresses also give a valuable opportunity to inspire us in both our clinical practice and to create and refine new research ideas. We intend to award three prizes each year for the free papers delivered at each Congress.
Medical acupuncture needs to promote eager young researchers.
We have revitalised our links with the WHO and have been asked to contribute to the International Acupuncture Guideline on Trial Methodology and standardising acupuncture nomenclature as the short-term goals. The British Medical Acupuncture Society Web site contains summaries of articles published in Acupuncture in Medicine the Society Journal. We aim, eventually, to teach acupuncture to medical students, world-wide, so that acupuncture can be appropriately integrated within general medicine. We are all medical practitioners first and acupuncturists second, therefore, we make a conventional medical diagnosis first and treat, if appropriate, with acupuncture. We often work in teams and refer patients freely to other health professionals.