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As the only program of it's kind offered in Southern California, the Classical Five-Element Acupuncture Program offers Acupuncturists and other licensed medical professionals the opportunity to become certified as Classical Five-Element practitioners. The program is taught by Neil R. Gumenick, M.Ac. (UK), C.T. (Adv.), L.Ac., Dipl.Ac. (NCCAOM), and a team of faculty and guest faculty approved by the Director.
The Classical Five-Element Acupuncture Program is structured around a part-time schedule (see below) for professionals who want to maintain their own practices while studying.
The program includes extensive training in:
• Five-Element Theory:
The Five Elements; Organ/Meridian Theory; Levels of Energy: Body, Mind, and Spirit; Laws and Cycles of the Five Elements; Significance of Symptoms; Balancing of Energy; Specialized Treatment Patterns and Groupings of Points, including Windows of the Sky, Possession and Use of Internal and External Dragons, Aggressive Energy, Husband/Wife Imbalances, Seas and Oceans, Akabanis, Entry-Exit Blocks; Energy Transfers; Causes of Disease; Pulse Reading and Diagnosis within the Five-Element System
• Point Location and Uses:
Twelve Meridians, Conception and Governor Vessels; Source, Junction, Horary, Tonification and Sedation Points, Element Points, Entry and Exit Points, Associated Effect Points, Alarm Points, First Aid Points; Unique Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Actions of Points and Combinations
• Traditional Diagnosis:
Awakening the Natural Ability to See, to Hear, to Ask, and to Feel, Using the Diagnostic Indicators of Color, Sound, Emotion, and Odor; Taking Case Histories; Assessing the Causative Factor and Level of Disease; Physical Examination; Practitioner/Patient Rapport Skills
• Clinical Work Discussion:
Presentation and Analysis of Class Patients, Diagnosis, and Treatment
• Treatment Planning:
Principles and Priorities; Translation of Traditional Diagnosis into Treatment Plan; Addressing the Needs of the Mind and Spirit; Methods of Treatment; Evaluation of Treatment; Determining Future Treatments
• Public Speaking:
How to Give Effective
and Informative Practice Building Presentations
• Treatment Techniques:
Needling: Tonification and Sedation, Uses of Moxabustion
• Practice/Patient Management and Ethics:
Communication Skills; Trust; Confidentiality; Listening and Counseling,
Patient Homework, Appropriate Referrals, Finances, Advertising; Public
Service.
• Clinical Observation:
100 hours outside
of Class (may be arranged with approved practitioners in students' local
areas)
• Supervised Clinical Practice:
Four-Day
Clinical Intensive; followed by one day
per week for 16 weeks (may be arranged with approved practitioners in
students' local areas); ending with a Four-Day Clinical Intensive for all
students.
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