CCAOM places Doctorate Program on the Table
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In brief, the CCAOM proposes that Masters level certification or completion of a "core curriculum" be a prerequisite for the DOM program. The DOM will be clinically based and further practitioners skills in the clinic as well as deepening knowledge of specialties.
DOM graduates will be able to make use of classical texts of Chinese and Oriental Medicine, using a vocabulary of 500 words in Chinese characters in order to translate medical texts by use of a Chinese dictionary, have familiarity with Biomedical assessment including lab tests in order to interface with other health care disciplines, herb knowledge at the MTOM level and have completed clinical research.
Further clinical training will be part of the degree and the length of the program (including the Master's level credits) will be 227 semester credits and 1200 clinic hours.
There will be a final comprehensive exam and/or oral arguments of a clinic-based project.
Other sections published in the newsletter deal with the technical aspects of the institutions granting the degree.
It is expected that although there will be some on-campus work, practitioners will not have to leave their communities to receive their degree.
The CCAOM will have a meeting November 13-14, 1997 in San Diego, California.
The ACAOM (ne NACSCAOM) will have a meeting the next day (Novermber 15th)
also in San Diego from 3:30 to 5 PM at the Catamaran Hotel
to discuss upcoming doctoral programs.
contact the CCAOM:
CCAOM
1010 Wayne Avenue Suite 1270
Silver Spring, MD
20910.
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