A university in Australia closed its Chinese medicine major: no money, no research results. What do you think of TCM major?

When it comes to the closure of Chinese medicine major in an Australian university, the first thing that comes to my mind is an open letter from the dean of their college on July 23, 20 19, which roughly states that their Chinese medicine department will stop enrolling students in 2020, and will end relevant courses and close existing clinics before 20021,12, 3 1. Of course, this is not the most frustrating thing for students and teachers. The most frustrating thing is that if they haven't graduated by then, these students can choose to transfer to the department of traditional Chinese medicine in western Sydney or stay in our school to study in other departments. At the same time, the teachers of this major are also facing the corresponding crisis.

As for the reasons for the closure that everyone cares about, it is also involved in the open letter. Generally speaking, it can be summarized as three points: financial feasibility, insufficient publication of papers, and inadaptability to the future development direction of University of Technology Sydney. In this regard, students, graduates, faculty and outpatients of Chinese medicine majors obviously did not accept it. Even after the publication of the open letter, they attended a gathering of 100 people in the school and opposed the closure of Chinese medicine courses and related clinics with many years of history for "unwarranted" reasons. The people at this rally shouted the slogan of saving the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and strongly appealed to the College to keep the major of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

In this respect, I personally think that studying Chinese medicine has a bright future and great merits. Moreover, the major of Chinese medicine cannot be measured by money. Moreover, from the point of view of study and work, they are more involved because of the charm of Chinese medicine, and spend a lot of time and energy on it. This can't be simply measured by the three points mentioned by the hospital, so that people at the meeting will say that it is an "unwarranted" reason. In my opinion, it is a Chinese medicine major.

This is enough to prove that whether it is from our ancient Huatuo, Shennong or modern Ms. Tu Youyou. Therefore, at the end of the article, we also call for strengthening the attention to the specialty of traditional Chinese medicine and making clear the academic foundation.