NCCAOM examination in acupuncture

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Will this distance training program qualify me to take the NCCAOM examination in acupuncture?

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Who knows !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! may be .

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The China Academy of TCM is listed in NCCAOM as evaluated institutions by AACRAO.
Please visit the website of NCCAOM at http://www.nccaom.org/educatedoutus.htm

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[quote]Sue: Will this distance training program qualify me to take the NCCAOM examination in acupuncture?[/quote]

Actually, here is the answer:

"Correspondence and distance learning programs do not qualify".

Source: "ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL NCCAOM CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS", pp. 1 & 8.
http://www.nccaom.org/pdfdocuments/Eligibility/Tab1%20-%20Eligibility%20Requirements.pdf[/img]

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[quote:b9ff1806b9="guest"][quote:b9ff1806b9]Sue: Will this distance training program qualify me to take the NCCAOM examination in acupuncture?[/quote:b9ff1806b9]

Actually, here is the answer:

"Correspondence and distance learning programs do not qualify".

Source: "ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL NCCAOM CERTIFICATION PROGRAMS", pp. 1 & 8.
http://www.nccaom.org/pdfdocuments/Eligibility/Tab1%20-%20Eligibility%20Requirements.pdf[/img][/quote:b9ff1806b9]

Although the correspondence and distance learning programs do not qualify by NCCAOM, but it is fact that the students can learn more the knowledge and technique on Chinese medicine and acupuncture with less time and money from our distance training program, right?


Medboop

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It is true that the distance learning TCM courses offered by the Medboo are much more cost effective than most classroom-based courses on the subject, especially when learning TCM basic principles is concerned. My comment specifically addressed the recognition of the Medboo credentials by the NCCAOM in the U.S.A. The Medboo courses might be, however, quite useful, especially in the countries with less strict regulations of the practice of TCM, for those health care professionals who are interesting in incorporating TCM in the treatment of their patients or who have received a limited training in the Western-based form acupuncture (a simplified form of acupuncture used in Western countries) and would like to learn more about the traditional Chinese approach to treatment. For instance, for the accredited membership in the British Medical Acupuncture Society (UK), only 100 hours of training in acupuncture is required from health care professionals, which is normally achieved by a combination of participation at courses, attendance at meetings and by distance learning (most members of the BMAS practice Western-oriented form of acupuncture). In the same way, the Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (UK) currently requires from physiotherapists 80 hours of training to be eligible for full membership. According to a workforce survey conducted by the Government of Australia, the average length of first TCM qualification training for non-primary TCM practitioners (i.e., graduates of other health science disciplines, including medical doctors, physiotherapists, chiropractors, naturopaths, nurses, massage therapists, osteopaths, homoeopaths, psychologists, pharmacists, etc.) in this country was 8 months, and as short as 50 hours in some cases. In Russia, where particing acupuncture is reserved to medical doctors, the prerequisite for practicing accupuncture is a 144 hours training course for non-primary accupuncture practitioners, mostly in the Western-based form acupuncture. It is obvious that more in-depth learning of TCM principles and techniques might be useful for those practitioners, and the Medboo courses might be a good option for them. In addition, the Medboo courses might be quite useful for those who would like to learn TCM to treat themselves and there family. The latter would obviously concern more the Chinese herbal medicine, although teaching patients self-acupuncture has been successfully used by some TCM practitioners in Europe for decades.

Additional information on the topic could be found at:

The British Medical Acupuncture Society
http://www.medical-acupuncture.co.uk

The Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists
http://www.longbo.demon.co.uk/aacpindex.html

The Practice of Chinese Medicine In Australia (State Government of Victoria, Australia)
http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/pdpd/chinese/report/contents.html

Journal articles:

The integration of acupuncture within medicine in the UK
http://www.medical-acupuncture.co.uk/journal/2005-1/23(1)002.pdf

Self-acupuncture debate
http://www.medical-acupuncture.co.uk/journal/2004-3/22(3)141.pdf