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Your Network is your Net Worth
Cultivating an Effective Network for Your Patient Acquisition and Business Goals
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Your Network is your Net Worth
Cultivating an Effective Network for Your Patient Acquisition and Business Goals
with Nell Smircina
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from October 14, 2021
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A roadblock for many acupuncture practitioners is knowing how to implement an effective strategy for growing their network. Often as confusing is understanding why it's important and then how to leverage it to get what we need for business and practice growth. We often forget that networking is about bringing mutual value. Having a solid network (and knowing how to effectively and ethically communicate to that network) allows for many opportunities. This course will provide a framework for these strategies. Common opportunities from effective networking: increased qualified referrals, speaking and media opportunities and enhanced credibility.
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Nell Smircina
Dr. Nell Smircina, DAOM, L.Ac., Dipl. OM is an advocate, educator and practitioner with a focus on the integration of acupuncture into America's standard of care.
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from August 30, 2020
Be Safe and Strong
The Basics for Safe and Effective Use of Essential Oils in the Pandemic World
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Be Safe and Strong
The Basics for Safe and Effective Use of Essential Oils in the Pandemic World
with Josephine Spilka
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from August 30, 2020
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Join Josephine Spilka to learn how to use essential oils with everyone in your family! We'll discuss how to apply them, how to store them and how to know when they are contraindicated. We'll look a few essential essential oils to keep on hand and how to make sure every living thing in your household can benefit from them. Keep your home and your people safe and in good health!
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Josephine Spilka
Josephine Spilka, M.S., L.Ac., has been practicing Classical Chinese Medicine and Buddhist meditation for over 20 years, and is focused on investigating the relationship with essence in its many forms.
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from April 28, 2020
Tung’s Points for COVID19 Symptoms
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Tung’s Points for COVID19 Symptoms
with Susan Johnson
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from April 28, 2020
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Susan offers her best treatment protocols for managing symptoms of COVID19, sanitation and safety practices for keeping your practice open and/or returning back to work safely and a few other very helpful suggestions for life during these crazy times.
Your Teacher
Susan Johnson
A graduate of the ACTCM, Susan Johnson, L.Ac., has been practicing TCM for over 30 years. She studied extensively with Drs. Miriam Lee and Young Wei Chieh, and teaches Tung's Points internationally.
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from April 9, 2020
Incorporating Facial Acupuncture into Your Practice and Through TeleMedicine
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Incorporating Facial Acupuncture into Your Practice and Through TeleMedicine
with Michelle Gellis
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from April 9, 2020
Overview
Please Join Dr. Michelle Gellis, internationally recognized facial acupuncture expert in a presentation on Incorporating Facial Acupuncture into Your Practice.
Topics include: (1) The benefits of Facial Acupuncture both for your patients and for your practice; (2) An overview of what is involved in incorporating FA into your practice: timing, marketing, and pricing; (3) Why providing a full body treatment must be part of facial acupuncture; and (4) The importance of training: documentation/safety/red flags.
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Michelle Gellis
Michelle Gellis is a Licensed and Board Certified Acupuncture Physician. She has been a Faculty Member and Clinic Supervisor at the Maryland University of Integrative Health since 2004. Ms Gellis holds the distinction of being one of the very few acupuncturists in the US certified to teach Facial Acupuncture certification classes on an international level to other acupuncturists.
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Practical Japanese Moxa for Your Clinic
Pragmatic Protocols for Clinical Success
with Cameron Bishop
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"Practical Japanese Moxa for Your Clinic" teaches many aspects of Moxa. The history, the types, and the many specifics to treat the root and symptoms. This includes Needle and Moxa (Kyutoshin), Thread Moxa (O'Kyu), Cone Moxa (Chinetsukyu), Pole Moxa, and Ibuki Moxa (stick on). The use, how to make, how to do, safety, points, conditions for various conditions will give the student ample information on the utilization of moxa for pain, fertility, constitution, abdomen, and Shen. Specific examples for the treatment of headache, low back pain, neck pain, abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, foot pain, knees, spine, Morton's neuroma, hip bursitis, facial conditions, constitution, energy, immune system, and more.
Learning Objectives
- Students will learn how to make a cone moxa, thread moxa, and moxa on the head of the needle.
- Students will become familiar with the history of moxa, the safety of moxa in the home and clinic.
- Be able to describe the different types of moxa types and their uses.
- Students will learn how to make a make point selection for various conditions.
Your Teacher
Cameron Bishop
Dr Cameron Bishop lived, worked and studied in Japan for four years. He specializes in Japanese Meridian therapy, Women's Health and Pain Management. He has been practicing over 25 years in South Florida. He has extensive teaching and clinical experience.
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Drug-Herb Interactions - Course 3
Autonomic Nervous System Drugs and Chinese Medicine
with Greg Sperber
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Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) drugs as a class are varied in their effects and often used by patients of acupuncturists and Chinese medical practitioners. They also have serious adverse effects, drug-herb interactions, as well as interference with Chinese diagnostics. This seminar examines major ANS drugs and the dangers Chinese medical practitioners need to be aware of when combining with herbs and acupuncture. We will look at various types of biomedical treatments for Alzheimers and other dementias, Parkinson's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, asthma, hypo- and hypertension, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and other conditions. Herb-drug and acupuncture-drug interactions will be explored for each type of drug.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the most common autonomic nervous system drugs with potential for drug-herb interactions
- Explore how major autonomic nervous system drugs act on the body
- Understand how autonomic nervous system drugs and herbs interact
Your Teacher
Greg Sperber
Dr. Greg Sperber is an author and also holds a Masters and Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He is a professor at PCOM and speaks internationally on TCM business and drug-herb interactions.
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Social Determinants: The Most Important Factors Affecting Premature Death
with Imran Mohammed
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Addressing Social Determinants of health, defined as inequalities in Social, Environmental and Economic conditions, according to WHO, can prevent approximately 85% of all premature deaths. Social Determinants of health are the most important aspect of medicine. The deliberate lack of focus on these underlying causes of health in standard medical education leads to unethical, harmful, and discriminatory care. This course will teach how to incorporate this essential knowledge in your clinical practice to provide dignified and equitable care.
Learning Objectives
- Individuals will understand Social Determinants of Health as the leading cause of premature death.
- Individuals will understand how addressing Social Determinants reduces morbidity and mortality in their patients.
- Individuals will understand that by centralising Social Determinants of heath, patients will receive more dignified and less harmful care without having to over rely on prescription drugs, the third leading cause of death
- Individuals will be able to understand and define Social Determinants of health.
Your Teacher
Imran Mohammed
Imran has over 20 years experience as a Clinician, Teacher, Herbalist and Acupuncturist. His Biomedical degree informs his practice and teaching. Imran is passionate about supporting fellow practitioners to understand and critically apply both Biomedical and Chinese medical systems
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Medicinal Mushrooms and the Immune System
Functional Applications of Medicinal Mushrooms with the Immune System
with Mason Bresett
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Medicinal mushroom extracts are becoming a popular treatment strategy in today’s health and wellness industry. This webinar will present an overview on the impact of medicinal mushrooms on the immune system. A thorough look at the different physiological impacts mushrooms have on different immune cells and systems relating to the immune system will be a focal point.
The webinar will also focus on dosing, safety and the importance of quality.
Medicinal mushrooms have a reuptation for being key immune-modulators when working with acute, chronic and even autoimmune illnesses. Like plants, different species of mushrooms have different applications, active compounds, uses and contraindications. Because medicinal mushroom extracts are formed from food, there therapeutic index is quite large compared to other nutraceuticals and medications.
Some of the most common medicinal mushrooms such as: lions mane, cordyceps, reishi, turkey tail, chaga, oyster, shiitake and maitake will be covered. Active compounds like ergothioneine, beta-glucans, triterpenes and ergosterol will be introduced.
Mycological part (mycelium, mushroom and spore) classification will be covered. This mycological classification system is an important discussion point which will be touched on multiple times throughout the webinar.
If you are curious about the modern advances and functional ways to include medicinal mushrooms into your practice, this is a great webinar for you.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be briefed about dosing, safety, drug interactions and contraindications.
- Participants will learn about the most important compounds and mechanisms of actions for these compounds found in medicinal mushrooms
- Participants will learn about the different areas of the immune system that are impacted by medicinal mushrooms
- Participants will learn about the different forms and parts of medicinal mushrooms and the importance of quality.
- Participants will learn about the different species of mushrooms and their inherent differences and applications
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Mason Bresett
Mason is a naturopathic doctor and co-founder of The Health Creation Lab , a naturopathic primary care clinic in Sarnia, Ontario. Mason has extra training in herbal medicine and mycology. Mason has a deep respect for medicines from our earth (fungi, herbs, plants, and trees).
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The historical and philosophical roots of medicine are founded on racist and colonialist principles and therefore cannot provide better health for communities.
Domination of the ‘Other’ ( marginalised groups of colour) for profit continue in everyday medical practice and biomedical interventions till the present day.
Learning Objectives
- Individuals will comprehend how medical surveillance techniques may be used for control and profit of patients’ bodies.
- Individuals will understand the historical development of the philososphy of medicine and its ideas and why it came about.
- Individuals will understand medical ‘progress’ as more subtle and insidious forms of surveillance, control and profit of bodies of colour
Your Teacher
Imran Mohammed
Imran has over 20 years experience as a Clinician, Teacher, Herbalist and Acupuncturist. His Biomedical degree informs his practice and teaching. Imran is passionate about supporting fellow practitioners to understand and critically apply both Biomedical and Chinese medical systems
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Mind, Money and Marketing
Things that work in a crisis and beyond.
with Ward Willison
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Are you prepared for a crisis such as a worldwide pandemic in your clinic? This video will show you ways to succeed now and in the future. This course is brought to you free and with a free CEU.
Mental toughness, grit, and resilience are key components to hanging in long enough to win. Learn how to maintain perspective and get it back once lost. Adrenal response can take over with negative stress. Ward has extensive knowledge and training in these subjects and will walk you through how to work with and manage them.
Businesses that run out of money have to shut. Ward has experience as a financial planner and he teaches the building blocks of a financial plan, leading to financial independence.
Peek into Ward's well-received “Practice Management Series”. Classify your clinic and what you need to focus on.
Long game marketing is the key. Many focus on the short game, which is a reason most clinics close. Examples of both are taught.
Learn how to take your clinic online from scripts, what you can do; web services to use and what not to say.
Ward’s shows his clinical numbers for the past few years and what a Covid-19 lockdown did to his clinic once it reopened, what changes he made and why, and thoughts of how his practice changed post Covid-19 lockdown.
Ward is joined by Dr. John Stan for a discussion on new practitioners, the value of Toastmasters, things he did to stay in business, and much more.
Join Ward in helping you to success in your life and practice.
Learning Objectives
- Learn Marketing strategies during stressful events and how to connect to patients and win them for life.
- Understand the basic financial building blocks to financial independence and how to build a simple financial plan.
- Manage and understand some of the emotions and cognition drives in stressful times (why do we freak out and what to do about it).
- What has worked since returning to work and what to avoid at all cost.
Your Teacher
Ward Willison
Success in Life and Practice—join Ward on a trip to your success: a business career, a near death accident, and apprenticing for 10 years with a master. His clinic does 2500+ clients with 3 months off a year, since 2008. Learn the processes that work!
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Drug-Herb Interactions - Course 2
Drug-Herb Interactions and the Matrix
with Greg Sperber
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We can predict potential drug-herb interactions. This course takes the basic pharmacology principles discussed in the Basics of Pharmacology course, including the ADME scheme and the therapeutic index, and applies them to understanding and predicting drug-herb interactions. In addition, recent areas of research related to interactions, such as p-glycoprotein and other transporters, will be discussed. The emphasis is on both the theoretical prediction and real world application of strategies for preventing and dealing with interactions. This includes a discussion about creating a Drug-Herb Interaction Matrix for determining an individual patient's risk. The template for the matrix will be provided as part of the course.
Learning Objectives
- Identify the risks involved with combining drugs and herbs
- Create a Drug-Herb Interaction Matrix for assessing individual patient risk and as a tool for communication
- Understand how the basics of pharmacokinetics, including the ADME scheme, and pharmacodynamics can be used to predict drug-herb interactions
Your Teacher
Greg Sperber
Dr. Greg Sperber is an author and also holds a Masters and Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He is a professor at PCOM and speaks internationally on TCM business and drug-herb interactions.
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Military Pingheng (Balance) Acupuncture
38 Effective Points for Pain and Common Conditions
with Hui Zhang
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PHA was firstly popularized in military health care services. Thanks to its fast effectiveness, requirements of few needles (mostly only one needle), convenience and safety, it was honored as “Community Health Promotion Program” by China’s Ministry of Health in 2005 and other rewards. After over 30 years’ development, PHA has gained attraction from doctors all around China, not only in general hospitals in big cities but also in primary clinics in remote areas.
Mechanism: originates on the theories of meridians and nerves. It’s the combination of Heart-Shen Controlling in CM and Nervous Regulating.
Characteristics: Single Point, Fast Inserting and Withdrawing, Instant Effect, Emphasis on Deqi, Points Name, Easily Understood and Memorized, Movement and Stimulation, Safety
Principle of Selecting Points: For certain conditions, specific location is selected, e.g. blood sugar reducing point, insomnia point. For most of the pain points, if it happens only on one side of the body, acupoint is selected contra-laterally i.e. left-right or upper-lower. For example, neck pain point on the left side is used to treat the pain on the right neck.
Categorization: 1) body pain points/external pain, 2) organ pain points/internal pain and 3) non-pain points.
There are 9 points located on head and neck, 11 on upper limbs, 3 on chest and abdomen, 4 on back, and 11 on lower limbs.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the background and features of PHA
- Acupoints for body pain
- Acupoints for non-pain disorders
Your Teacher
Hui Zhang
Hui Zhang, Ph.D., is a Chinese Medicine Doctor, Educator, and Researcher. Having trained at the Chengdu University of TCM in China, he works in Denmark. Hui lectures regularly in Denmark, Germany, Austria, and China.
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Safeguard Your Clinic Workspace Series 1 - Course 3
EMF Radiation
with Sue Nelson
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As a workplace concern, EMF Wireless radiation is not ‘on the radar’ for many TCM practitioners but it should be! Current safety standards continue to be based on outdated threshold limits for THERMAL-ONLY biological effects.
As a result, EMF Wireless devices have proliferated the planet with totally inappropriate emission levels. These levels fail to integrate the growing weight-of-evidence warnings about the disastrous NON-THERMAL health effects!
Lloyds of London – the biggest Insurance market in the world – will not accept liability for ‘Wi-Fi Injury’ associated with Wi-Fi devices. Lloyds has done its homework on both THERMAL and NON-THERMAL effects and thresholds.
National standards are far from unified, especially since the release of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Study in 2016. This crucial 10-year Study confirmed the causal link between tumours of the Brain and Heart and excessive exposure to 2G and 3G mobile phones. Now the world is facing the 5G threat which will add to the aggregate burden of EMF radiation from digital meters, routers, and wireless devices in the community.
EMF wavelengths cannot be effectively blocked but they can be avoided or have their impact lessened to a degree. TCM practitioners need to educate themselves on this urgent health and safety issue, even if it means learning new technical jargon and contradicting the public perception of safe-use technology. In this way, they have the chance to lead the health industry.
PLEASE NOTE: While this course does cover safety-related topics, it is not accredited by NCCAOM under the "Safety Category", but rather the "AOM-BIO" category.
Learning Objectives
- Understand why the Insurance companies refuse to indemnify ‘Wi-Fi’ Injury in the clinic workplace and elsewhere.
- Identify the historical landmarks underpinning the formation of THERMAL-only EMF Safety Standards in different countries.
- Understand the current international disparities in EMF Safety Standards.
- Be informed of the scientific and medical concerns surrounding the NON-THERMAL biological effects of EMF radiation.
- Obtain a template for clinic ‘risk management’ in terms of avoidance or mitigation strategies for minimising EMF exposure.
Your Teacher
Sue Nelson
After learning a traditional style of Chinese Medicine, Sue Nelson B.A, B.TCM has been in continuous clinical practice in the Sunshine Coast hinterland for 3 decades. She uses an eclectic range of healing therapies and enjoys a country lifestyle. She has lectured at 2 Brisbane Acupuncture colleges.
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Safeguard Your Clinic Workspace Series 1 - Course 2
MIT Lung and Skin Allergen
with Sue Nelson
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Many TCM clinic practitioners may be unaware of the number of common usage products containing Methyl-Iso-Thiazolinone (MIT).
The use of MIT as a chemical water preservative since 2001 is out-of-control. It has been allowed to reach the absurdly high concentration of 100 parts per million (ppm) even after it’s mother product CMIT:MIT, with its much lower proportion of 15 ppm MIT, showed disturbingly high rates of Skin and Lung Allergies in exposed consumers.
MIT is out-of-control because it is in so many product categories. In 2001, MIT started as an industrial preservative in Paint. Unfortunately Allergy reports were ignored and MIT was then introduced to Cosmetics and Personal products in 2005. This was a disaster considering that Cosmetics and products such as Sunscreen, are LEAVE-ON products, absorbed directly into the Skin!
MIT is out-of-control because industry regulation is lacking. Paint manufacturers are allowed to ‘self-regulate’ the amount of MIT added to their Paints, with the result that exposure to Paint fumes accounts for 50% of all MIT-based Contact Dermatitis cases.
MIT is out-of-control because the medical screening test, the Patch Test, is applied to CMIT:MIT only, and not to MIT alone, leading to misdiagnosis. The main treatment for Allergic reactions - trigger avoidance – is impossible if patients have not been medically diagnosed properly. There needs to be a lot more public education about MIT so that people can select safer product substitutes.
PLEASE NOTE: While this course does cover safety-related topics, it is not accredited by NCCAOM under the "Safety Category", but rather the "AOM-BIO" category.
Learning Objectives
- Examine the management of this Delayed-type Hypersensitivity to obtain a protocol for product substitution and Allergen avoidance.
- Be informed of the concentration threshold changes to MIT, with reference to industry regulation since its release.
- Identify the large array of common usage products containing the highly Allergenic MIT preservative.
- Learn the aetiology of this Lung and Skin Allergen.
Your Teacher
Sue Nelson
After learning a traditional style of Chinese Medicine, Sue Nelson B.A, B.TCM has been in continuous clinical practice in the Sunshine Coast hinterland for 3 decades. She uses an eclectic range of healing therapies and enjoys a country lifestyle. She has lectured at 2 Brisbane Acupuncture colleges.
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Safeguard Your Clinic Workspace Series 1 - Course 1
Moxa Smoke Inhalation
with Sue Nelson
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There are valid TCM industry concerns about the carcinogens emitted by ‘sidestream’ Moxa smoke. What are the effects of these carcinogens being inhaled by practitioners, staff members and patients – both short-term and long-term – in the closed-up confines of a clinic space?
Despite 2,500 years of therapeutic usage, Moxibustion cannot escape the modern scrutiny of all combustible smoke inhalation risks, due to the awareness created by Tobacco smoking fatalities.
Since the 1950s the ongoing Tobacco health crisis has prompted the refinement of research methods to confirm the causality between smoking – as in ‘active’ or ‘passive’ smoking - and Lung Cancer.
This course explores the types of research directed towards the analysis of Moxa smoke in the clinic setting, especially those reputable research methods borrowed from the Tobacco industry. It highlights the relative lack of Epidemiology studies as the major weak area in Moxa smoke research.
Mitigation methods are recommended for TCM practitioners using Moxibustion regularly in the workplace. But the main focus is on the modern thermal substitutes in the form of Infrared lamps and hand-held devices, for Moxa-averse practitioners wishing to follow the ‘precautionary principle’.
Learning Objectives
- Obtain a template for future ‘risk management' in terms of either mitigation strategies or modern thermal substitutes.
- Be able to identify the research methods used to confirm causality between Tobacco ‘smoking’ and Lung Cancer.
- Understand how the TCM industry can borrow from well-established causality studies to analyse the impacts of Moxa smoke inhalation in the workplace.
- Be informed of the industry concerns surrounding the inhalation of Moxa smoke in the clinic workspace.
Your Teacher
Sue Nelson
After learning a traditional style of Chinese Medicine, Sue Nelson B.A, B.TCM has been in continuous clinical practice in the Sunshine Coast hinterland for 3 decades. She uses an eclectic range of healing therapies and enjoys a country lifestyle. She has lectured at 2 Brisbane Acupuncture colleges.
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Drug-Herb Interactions - Course 1
The Basics of Pharmacology and Chinese Medicine
with Greg Sperber
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This course looks at basic pharmacology principles including pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in a fascinating exploration. These concepts are explicitly applied to Chinese medicine and herbology. This is a foundation for understanding how pharmaceuticals and Chinese herbs move through and work on the human body. We will be emphasizing the ADME scheme and setting the stage for a discussion of predicting drug-herb interactions.
Learning Objectives
- Apply basic pharmacological concepts to Chinese herbs
- Identify the general mechanisms of action for drugs and herbs
- Understand the basics of pharmacokinetics including the ADME scheme, and pharmacodynamics
Your Teacher
Greg Sperber
Dr. Greg Sperber is an author and also holds a Masters and Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He is a professor at PCOM and speaks internationally on TCM business and drug-herb interactions.
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Actions and decisions are either ethical or they are not, no matter how varied the situation. This Advanced Course is an in-depth discussion of ethics in relation to maintaining your Acupuncture practice, growing into your own professionalism and your ongoing role as a representative in the field. It provides guidelines for those areas that become more of a gray-zone once you’ve been in practice for some time.
This course also brings into discussion social media and public image, teaching and mentoring, expanding or cutting back on your practice, collaboration and patient management. Using the base principles of Aristotle’s discourse on ethics and the Declaration of Geneva, this course takes you out of the theoretical realm and into the nuts and bolts of how we handle patients and ourselves in real time as dynamic, caring, and evolving people.
Mary’s lecturing style is accessible, clear, friendly, and penetrating. She delivers the information with relatable examples from real life and applies the core principles of ethics in a way that brings out your confidence in knowing how to appropriately balance passion and caution.
Learning Objectives
- Students will learn how to apply core principles of ethics to deal with more complex situations in practice.
- Students will gain understanding of ethics as applied to a sustained and mature practice.
- Students will learn how to grow their practice and professionalism from a strong center of ethical integrity.
Your Teacher
Mary McCullough
Mary McCullough has been in practice since 2009 and has been practicing Classical Five Element Acupuncture (CFEA) since 2014. She's taught both TCM and CFEA, most recently as Senior Faculty at the Institute of Classical Five Element Acupuncture in California.
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Ethics is a balance between passion and caution. This course covers a full spectrum of principles for maintaining an acupuncture/eastern medicine practice, whether you’re just starting out or are a seasoned practitioner. We’ll address ethical models in different medical modalities, the patient-practitioner relationship, disclosure, confidentiality, payments, setting up your practice, taking time away or moving your practice, record keeping, sexual attraction, relationships with and covering for other practitioners, advertising, professional surroundings, and your role in the global community, and more - all within a clear and easy through-line that will guide you to success via integrity.
Learning Objectives
- Students will learn core principles to determine what is ethical as pertaining to the practice of Acupuncture and East Asian medicine.
- Students will understand the various base categories of maintaining a practice and how ethics are applied within each.
- Students will be able to create a framework for creating and building an ethical practice of high integrity.
Your Teacher
Mary McCullough
Mary McCullough has been in practice since 2009 and has been practicing Classical Five Element Acupuncture (CFEA) since 2014. She's taught both TCM and CFEA, most recently as Senior Faculty at the Institute of Classical Five Element Acupuncture in California.
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This course is devoted to the advanced technique of Cupping. A lecture on the The Ancient Art of Cupping will be presented, and will cover all the different styles of suction technique, as well as Gua Sha. Susan will discuss at length what the color on the skin actually means and how and why toxins build up in the muscles and/or joints. Safety concerns will be addressed, as well as how to inform the patient about aftercare and what to expect from their cupping treatment. There will be recorded demonstrations of cupping patterns, with detailed explanations. Recorded Q&A and case histories about the various techniques that are presented are also included.
Learning Objectives
- To provide an understanding of the various types of cupping techniques, and how and when they can be applied to different clinical situations.
- To provide practitioners with a well-rounded scope of practice, including advanced cupping techniques.
- To ensure that students are aware of when cupping is best used and also when and why it might be avoided.
- To help students understand the energetic ways in which point patterns can be intelligently combined with cupping, to enhance a treatment.
- To ensure students understand, and learn what they need to know to provide excellent health care for their patients in a safe, sterile, sensitive, and effective way.
Your Teacher
Susan Johnson
A graduate of the ACTCM, Susan Johnson, L.Ac., has been practicing TCM for over 30 years. She studied extensively with Drs. Miriam Lee and Young Wei Chieh, and teaches Tung's Points internationally.
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This course will look at basic medical ethics and how they apply to Acupuncture and Oriental Medical practices. It will cover the five basic principles/areas every practitioner should know. It then goes on to explore fundamental medical ethics including looking at the works of Hippocrates and Sun Si Miao and discussing the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment as well as NCCAOM’s Code of Ethics. And finally, there will be a review of real world ethical issues that practitioners need to deal with in their everyday interactions with patients. The goal of this course is to give a basic theoretical background to medical ethics and then make them relevant to one’s practices.
Learning Objectives
- To explore historical medical ethics documents such as the Hippocratic Corpus and Sun Si Miaos On the Absolute Sincerity of Great Physicians
- To understand the basic concepts of medical ethics.
- To understand basic terms used in ethics and the sub-domain of ethics known as professional ethics.
- To apply these ethical considerations to real world situations.
Your Teacher
Greg Sperber
Dr. Greg Sperber is an author and also holds a Masters and Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He is a professor at PCOM and speaks internationally on TCM business and drug-herb interactions.
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The Ethics lecture on the “Patient-Practitioner Relationship from the Chinese Medical Classics” is perhaps considered one of the best talks on Chinese Medicine. It was first presented in 1990 at the Traditional Acupuncture Institute, Maryland, presented by Father Claude Larre and Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée.
The subject of this lecture has now been included within the body of CTA’s Masters degree, as well as being offered annually to new generations of practitioners. As our profession evolves with the changing landscape of healthcare, this area of study and expertise remains a treasure house of clinical efficacy and healing potential. This course covers the components outlined in this lecture.
Learning Objectives
- Raises his or her vision and conduct
- Invigorates his or her thought
- Allows the practitioner to develop his or her art
Your Teacher
Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée
TCM academic and historian, Elisabeth Rochat has specialized in both medical and philosophical Classics in her 40+ years career. She co-authored 'A Survey of Chinese Medicine' and continues to teach about the Classics of TCM internationally.
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We may not be able to predict all drug-herb interactions, but we can determine potentials for interactions. This seminar examines how to approach these potential drug-herb interactions. A discussion of basic pharmacology, including the ADME scheme (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination) and the therapeutic index, form the foundation of this understanding. The participant will leave with real skills to assess potential interactions and the ability to determine which are important, which aren’t, and which may be in the future. Both the nine drugs and ten herbs most prone to drug-herb interactions will be discussed. These drugs and herbs are based on an evidence based approach.
Learning Objectives
- Protect oneself from potential medico-legal issues arising form interactions
- Identify the most common pharmacological reasons drugs and herbs interact
- Understand the basics of how drugs and herbs interact
- Create protocols to avoid interactions
Your Teacher
Greg Sperber
Dr. Greg Sperber is an author and also holds a Masters and Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He is a professor at PCOM and speaks internationally on TCM business and drug-herb interactions.
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The Ancient Art of Bleeding is a cross-cultural modality used from time immemorial, in ancient Egypt, India, the Middle East and throughout all of Asia. In Chinese medicine, bleeding is commonly referred to as: pricking bleeding, micro-puncture, triangular needling or simply, blood-letting. This series of webinars are designed to explore: the origins of blood-letting; different styles and forms of bleeding; sterile technique and safety concerns; and to provide instruction on a wide variety of points that are bled for common ailments.
Learning Objectives
- Recite eight reasons not to bleed
- List four different methods of bleeding
- List seven primary functions attributed to blood-letting
- Demonstrate proper sterile technique
- Describe a brief history of blood-letting
- Describe five different implements of bleeding
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Susan Johnson
A graduate of the ACTCM, Susan Johnson, L.Ac., has been practicing TCM for over 30 years. She studied extensively with Drs. Miriam Lee and Young Wei Chieh, and teaches Tung's Points internationally.
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Overview
We may not be able to predict all drug-herb interactions, but we can determine potentials for interactions. This one-hour webinar examines how to approach these potential drug-herb interactions.
A discussion of protein binding, cytochrome P450, and the therapeutic index form the foundation of this understanding. You will leave with real skills to assess potential interactions.
This webinar is based on Dr. Sperber's book Integrative Pharmacology: Combining Modern Pharmacology and Chinese Medicine, written with Bob Flaws.
Learning Objectives
- To identify the most common pharmacological reasons drugs and herbs interact.
- Create protocols to avoid interactions.
- To understand the basics of how drugs and herbs interact.
Your Teacher
Greg Sperber
Dr. Greg Sperber is an author and also holds a Masters and Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He is a professor at PCOM and speaks internationally on TCM business and drug-herb interactions.