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.


Classroom Sessions: Friday-Monday, once per month for the first 8 months.

Clinical Observation: 100 hours outside of class (may be arranged in students' local areas).

Supervised Clinical Practice: In the eighth session (April 2011), students are encouraged to bring patients to treat under faculty supervision. The following 16 weeks involve one day per week of supervised clinical treatments of patients, either in Los Angeles, or in students' local areas. The Program concludes with a final 4-Day (Friday-Monday) Clinical Intensive.

Prospective students are invited to visit a class of the Program currently in session and/or the practice of a faculty member. There is nothing that can compare to witnessing this system of medicine in action, or actually being a patient, to feel its life transforming power. Please inquire.

2010-2011 Classical Five-Element Acupuncture Program Dates
All classes meet Friday through Monday, 9:00am-6:00pm
(Dates and hours may be subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances)

  ~ September 10-13, 2010
  ~ October 22-25, 2010
  ~ November 19-22, 2010
  ~ December 10-13, 2010
  ~ January 14-17, 2011
  ~ February 18-21, 2011
  ~ March 18-21, 2011
  ~ April 15-18, 2011
  ~ August 12-15, 2011


The program is open to licensed acupuncturists, physicians, osteopaths, dentists, other licensed medical professionals (whose scope of practice includes acupuncture), and students of Oriental Medicine. Admission to the program will include assessments by written application and interview. Because of the personal one-on-one attention provided to each student, class size will be limited and enrollments considered on a first come, first served basis.

CEUs: This program has been approved for 462 hours of continuing education units by the California Acupuncture Board and is an approved NCCAOM Professional Develpment Activity.


Full Program Tuition: $9,800
Payment plans are available
Textbooks and materials: Approximately $300


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The program will be conducted in English only.
Participants must be prepared to devote several hours per week for individually assigned study and practice.

 


THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL FIVE-ELEMENT ACUPUNCTURE INC.
2926 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica CA 90404-9900
www.5elements.com
(310) 453-2235