The study time duration is flexible for you. It could be a few 
				weeks or a few months based upon your time schedule. It means we 
				offer corresponding study program for your group to meet your 
				personal demand. This way could guarantee that everybody could 
				benefit sufficiently. This is the pure English study program in 
				China covering comprehensive TCM subjects for international 
				students and western licensed doctors. 
				
				
				In a common condition, we always arrange two hours for theory 
				introduction in the morning, two hours for clinical practice in 
				the afternoon (even though actually most students studied here 
				much longer everyday for free). Five days per week.
				
				
				Usually, 
				
				50% classes for acupuncture and tuina, 30% basic theories and 
				diagnostics, 20% herbs and herbal treatment.
				
				
				From August 2012, we also offer some 
				2-weeks-simple-study-programs including foot massage, TCM 
				cosmetics, acupuncture weight-reducing, scrapping (guasha), or 
				cupping.
				
				
				Please feel free to let us know your demand and time schedule so 
				that we could make special arrangement for you.
				
				
				Please contact us now before attending our program. 
				
				
				Why do international students and licensed western doctors 
				like to attend our short term study program?  
				
				
				The answer is that on the one hand, there is no any pure English 
				study program in China covering the comprehensive TCM courses 
				like basic theory, diagnostics, acupuncture, tuina, herbs, 
				prescription, even though there are English study programs in 
				China for the subject of manipulation of acupuncture, which 
				might cause a partial understanding to TCM. On the other hand, 
				after attending our short term study program, you will be 
				offered a very accurate understanding to the basic knowledge of 
				TCM. This experience will help you to continue and deepen the 
				study of TCM very smoothly. For example, many TCM students in 
				the USA and UK could not successfully complete the two or three 
				years study program there, because they find TCM is very hard to 
				understand and have to give up the study. The third, since in 
				China the TCM degree study program (bachelor's degree) for the 
				international students spend five years and is taught in Chinese 
				language, this is a hard choice for most international TCM 
				students.
				
				
				So in general, the purpose of our short term training program is 
				to offer you very good basic TCM knowledge and to improve your 
				accurate and clear understanding to TCM knowledge.  
				
				
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				The short term training classes are taught in pure English. The 
				courses in our hospital include acupuncture, moxibustion,  basic 
				theory of TCM, diagnostics, materia medica, prescription, 
				massage (Tui Na), Qigong, internal medicine, gynaecology, 
				paediatrics, dermatology, dietary therapy, etc. 
				
				
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				Distant Program: 
				
				
				Many friends and students in the world are interested in Chinese 
				medicine now, but unfortunately, their time schedules or 
				financial budgets have prevented them from coming here to learn 
				TCM for a number of years or months. Therefore we encourage you to learn 
				by yourself at home. We offer you English textbooks,
				A01 to A14 published by Shanghai TCM University Press. 
				If 
				
				there is any puzzle when you learn these books, you can consult 
				with our teachers. After you finish all the books, you could 
				apply to take our distant test, then we will give you a 
				certificate after you pass the test. If you wish to attend our 
				distant program, the cost for the distant program is $980.00, 
				including the textbooks fee, consulting fee, test fee and 
				certificate fee.
				
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