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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
variable credit These courses provide an opportunity for students to study areas of interest that are not included in the regular curriculum. With the aid of a selected resource person/sponsor, the student may explore a field of study in acupuncture and Oriental medicine of personal interest and value. Prerequisite: Permission of dean AOM Department Electives: The following courses (course numbers starting with OM9-) represent a variety of electives and special topics courses offered on a rotating basis.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is designed to provide naturopathic students an opportunity to apply basic diagnostic principles of traditional Chinese medicine. Topics include TCM interviewing skills, pulse, tongue, meridian, palpation, and case analysis. Beginning patient assessment skills are introduced. Prerequisite: OM4118 or OM5120
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2.00 Credits
2 credits All laws of five element acupuncture are covered in this course. Emphasis is given to developing diagnostic skills, interviewing and examining techniques. The student is guided to a new experience of seeing, hearing, feeling and smelling. Understanding all correspondences of lifestyle preference, personality, compensation for early traumas and emotional patterns, with a consciousness from within each element, is the goal of a series of experiential exercises. Prerequisite: OM4118 or OM5120
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2.00 Credits
1 credit This course offers further explorations with different styles and varieties of tai chi to further enhance health and well being (tai chi advanced). Prerequisite: OM5442 or permission of dean
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2.00 Credits
1 credit The manipulation of one's energetic core is further explored and expanded as a valuable tool to use with patients in the health care setting. Prerequisite: OM4406 or permission of dean
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2.00 Credits
2 credits This course provides an overview of the field of chemical dependency treatment and the role of acupuncture. The course includes an overview of the biochemistry of chemical dependency, outpatient treatment strategies for safely detoxifying and aftercare. The role of the acupuncturist in a clinic team is also covered. This course is the didactic portion of a larger certification program offer by the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA). Upon completion of this course plus completion of an outside clinical rotation, students are eligible to work as acupuncturists in chemical dependency treatment facilities upon graduation/licensure. Prerequisite: Intern status at clinic
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course provides an overview of Western physics and the physiological mechanisms behind concepts of traditional Chinese medicine. The course covers the framework behind the current Western scientific understanding of traditional Chinese medicine. Prerequisites: OM4108, OM4212, OM4222
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2.00 Credits
1 credit See description above. The Tui Na techniques covered in this course include: shaking, squeezing, striking, regulating, bending, splashing, scratching, sweeping, locking, swinging, gathering, separating and rotating techniques. (For Tui Na 3-4, see OM9574 and OM9578.) Prerequisite: OM4315
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5.00 Credits
1 credit See description preceding OM9519. There are many advanced Tui Na techniques that can enhance resolution of pain. This course gives students an opportunity to apply previously learned advanced Tui Na techniques with a variety of common clinical conditions including pain in the scapula, mid and low back areas, prolapsed disc conditions, injury to the superior cluneal nerve and trauma with the piriform muscle. External herbal applications also covered. Prerequisite: OM4315
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1.00 Credits
1 credit This form, known as "Swimming Dragon," utilizes the classicweapon style from the Yang family tai chi chuan to stimulate the Yin energy. Course includes history of the form and yin/yang foundation theory and presents the difference between the weapon form and the bare hand form. Students learn the 37 classical movements. Prerequisite: OM4118 or OM5120 or permission of the dean
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