acupuncture and phytotherapy

I have no doubt that many professional accredited by the weekend school´s will become excellent in this art. I have friends who took the course in APA-DA and are performing successfully. I have treated patients who had previously been treated by acupuncturists licensed by the APA-DA and had nothing bad to say. On the contrary. [...]

Among the various attacks on the 3 parameters I used to advise prospective students are: (1) its subjectivity and (2) the presentation of other factors that are more beneficial to their school as the quality of teaching methods, ability and level training of teachers, career opportunities or relationship with other foreign institutions.
In fact the parameters [...]

When I criticize the clinical practice that is rare or totally absent in many courses on the weekends I am also attacked. There are people who take courses on weekends, and will receive the qualification for the job market without having seen a single patient throughout the course. Many have to learn the techniques of [...]

I tend to be very attacked by students of APA-DA who do not agree with my ideas. Some try a more constructive dialogue, at least initially, thinking that can support their arguments. Others not so:
“They don´t need for any individual to make the devil’s advocate in response to criticism of their institution, entitling himself as [...]

Faced with these facts how can a student make a conscious choice of a course that can ensure him a minimally adequate education. Not being a regulated profession, there isn´t governmental aproved courses (accredited by the Portuguese government) and is subject to all kinds of advertising, without the existence of departments or institutions that can [...]

Many may look at this text as an attack on their schools. On several occasions, may well be so. However, I intend to show to different readers the different schools and problems that arise in some of them. Before writing this text I struggle with a morality question between not write  to affect other schools [...]

You can find 5 acupuncture schools in New York.
You have the Tri-State College of Acupuncture that is proud of being one of the oldest acupuncture schools in the USA and is celebrating their 30th year. According to their site, this acupuncture school “Located in New York City, … offer in-depth professional Master’s degree programs, featuring hands-on training [...]

You can find 3 acupuncture schools in Hawaii. Two of them are located in Honolulu and the other in Kamuela.
1 – The institute of Clinical Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine
2 – World Medicine Institute, College of Acupuncture and Herbal medicine
3 – Traditional Chinese Medical College of Hawaii
The institute of Clinical Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine
The institute of [...]