Yes. It has. All students are still here. Some of the first tests are done and beyond us; some worked well, some less so. We just started going through the Bladder channel, the longest channel of them all at 60+ points.
We have started to go deeper into the causes of disease in Chinese medicine, both the internal and external ones. Students have for the first time in class done tests on their own Five Element makeup, so that they start to understand which Elements that are part of their main personality, body-structure and health.
More clinic is being had, both video- and observation clinic. Physiology is back, as it will be once a week for the next two-and-a-half years. First year´s Physiology will turn into Patophysiology year 2, followed by Western differential diagnosis year 3. All this is part of making the course a Msci (Master of Sciences, or with three years, Bachelor of Sciences, civilingenjörsexamen) instead of something to do with the arts. The university seems to have a very strong bias towards Western medicine and science in their set-up compared to many schools. I talked to someone who does the Chinese herb course for the same amount of time, and they are doing massive amounts of western chemistry to pick apart the herbs, something which has as little to do with chinese herbal medicine as Physiology has to do with learning acupuncture. Oh well. Not much to do about it. The only good thing about it so far is giving me more and more knowledge about how good Western science works (”We´re not really sure about anything, but we keep looking at it”) contrary to bad Western science (”This is the way it is, we know that for sure”) which is always amusing. A brilliant book I read on the side for fun, is Bill Bryson´s A Brief History of almost Everything, which goes through Western science with both depth, lightness, precision, and humour.
We have also started a class in what is called Tuina, which it isn´t, but a version of massage techniques called anmo from China. I trained in qigong tuina, which is even more rare to find and really works less with the physical body than the mind and energy itself.
...and...yeah. That´s probably a brief overview of things right now.
It´s soon Chinese New Year. Year of the Metal Rabbit coming up.
