Chinese Herbal Medicine Practitioner
Diploma Program
The 2004 hour Chinese Herbal Medicine Practitioner diploma program develops a level knowledge of Chinese Herbal Medicine which is similar to the standards established for practice in British Columbia, Canada. It is also the pathway for the Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner and Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine diploma programs.
"The Chinese Herbal Medicine Practitioner is a Diploma Program as issued by the International Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The International Academy is not a Degree granting institution."
What follows is a listing of the courses required to complete the Chinese Herbal Medicine Practitioner diploma program:
516 hours:
- Herbal Clinical
192 hours:
- Pathology
120 hours:
- Nutrition
96 hours each:
- Anatomy/Physiology
- Physiology
72 hours each:
- Anatomy
- Chinese Herbal Medicine
48 hours each:
- Case Studies
- TCM Classics
- TCM Gynecology
- Herbal Therapeutics
36 hours:
- Business Skills
24 hours each:
- Advanced Formulas & Strategies
- Chinese Herbal Formula Differentiation
- Chinese Herbal Patent Medicines
- Chinese Herbal Substitutions
- Energetics of Western Herbs
- First Aid
- Interpretive Studies
- Internal Medicine
- Law & Ethics
- Meridian Theory
- Neuroscience
- Paradigms of World Herbs
- Professional Development
- Public Health
- TCM Dermatology/5 Senses
- TCM Diagnosis/Assessment
- TCM External Diseases
- TCM Geriatrics
- TCM Modern Mental Diseases
- TCM Modern Physical Diseases
- TCM Nutrition, TCM Orthopedics
- TCM Terminology
- TCM Theory Foundations
12 hours each:
- Chinese Herbal License Preparation
- Pharmacology
- Tai Chi