Publications

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last updated 1.09.2020

Hospital-practice Handbook electronic publications (other than the blogs and website)

• The downloadable pdf, Get Your Foot in the Door of Hospital Practice:  First Steps for the acupuncturist or integrative health student interested in hospital-based practice by Megan Kingsley Gale, MSAOM.
• The Workbook, a companion resource to Get Your Foot in the door of Hospital Practice: First Steps
• Interview with Dr. Annie Budhathoki (pdf of blog post and transcript)
• Courses-online resources (electronic)

Scientific journal publications

• 2019--both are public access (open access) articles
• Gale, M. Report on the Society of Acupuncture Research International Conference. JASA: The Journal of the American Society of Acupuncturists: 2019 6(3): 32-34.
• Gale, M. Dear Editor… JASA: The Journal of the American Society of Acupuncturists: 2019 6(3): 24-25. 
• “Dear Editor…” is a short description of what the Hospital Practice Handbook Project is: a resource for acupuncturists, a resource for acupuncture program managers, and for everyone working with them.  
• Systematic Review of Acupuncture for Low Back Pain: Efficacy and Clinically-Meaningful Change (2018)
• Taylor-Swanson L, Stone J, Gale M, Gaitaud A, Huson C, McPherson F, Martens J, Godwin J, and Yule M:  Systematic Review of Acupuncture for Low Back Pain: Efficacy and Clinically-Meaningful Change.  Meridians: JAOM, 2018 5(3): 18-24, 38-39.
• This article is available as "public access" on the Meridians JAOM website
• Workers' Comp 
• Taylor-Swanson L and Gale M:  Making the Case for Workers' Compensation:  Acupuncture for Low Back Pain. Meridians: JAOM, 2018 5(3): 16-17.
• This article is available as "public access" on the Meridians JAOM website

Acupuncturists as Professional Practice Clinicians and How that Relates to Hiring & Credentialing in Hospital-based Practice 

• Gale M, Hospital Practice: Recognition of Acupuncturist as a Licensed Independent Practitioner (LIP). Meridians: JAOM, 2016 3(4): 11-16, 41.  This is a public access article available in electronic and print format at the journal's website. The journal is Journal of the American Association of Acupuncturists (JASA), formerly Meridians: Journal of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. 
• More background information from the endnotes of the Meridians article here.

Magazine articles

• Alumna Expands Workers' Comp Coverage for Acupuncture Treatment, Inside Bastyr, 2018 spring: 2.
• Need to access this article and the hyperlink is not working?  Contact the Bastyr University Office of Development at development@bastyr.edu 

Online National Toolkit Publications --links updated May 2019
From 2015-2016 I was a member of NCCAOM's Hospital-based Practice Task Force.  From these discussions, the committee created documents that are published on NCCAOM's website.  These are available for free to NCCAOM® Diplomates and for a low cost to non-Diplomates through the website.
Note: the 2015/2016 NCCAOM documents are now outdated due to the publication of two major professional milestones related to hospital credentialing: 
(1) The publication of the BLS occupation code for acupuncturists in 2018 and
(2) the VA Handbook Staffing Code publication of Acupuncturist as a unique and recognized healthcare professional. Please see the related blog posts for more information. For a consultation on this issue, please contact me via the website.

Hospital Credentialing Toolkits for Acupuncturists and their Hospital Sponsors (2016)

• The first is a toolkit, "Credentialing of Acupuncturists for Hospital-based Practice:  A Resource Guide for NCCAOM® Diplomates".   NCCAOM® published this on its website in July 2016.
• The second NCCAOM® toolkit is a collaboration with the Academic Collaborative for Integrative Health (ACIH). “Credentialing LicensedAcupuncture and Oriental Medicine Professionals for Practice in Healthcare Organizations:  An Overview and Guidance for Hospital Administrators, Acupuncturists and Educators”.  Published by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM®).  October 2016. 

For related information about Meridians and its resources on scientific writing in the field of East Asian Medicine, see these links:
Meridians:  Journal of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
Things to consider when publishing in scientific journals

 

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