Course Overview

This diploma course brings together some of the leading clinicians and researchers of Chinese herbal medicine and has a main goal of producing practitioners who are expertly trained in the clinical practice of Chinese herbal medicine and are able to confidently use a wide selection of safe and established formulations to treat patients effectively.

Course Duration

The course will run over an 22-month period, approximately two weekends per month, and includes a series of online lectures from Taiwan blended with on-site lectures and 30 days of clinical experience in our UK teaching clinic set in the heart of London.

For people who want to spread their training over a longer period it is possible to take individual modules of the curriculum, starting with Materia Medica and Ethnopharmacy.

Clinical Work Opportunity in Taiwan

There will be opportunities for further postgraduate clinical work at China Medical University Hospital in Taiwan, working alongside some of the most experienced and influential practitioners of Chinese medicine in a busy hospital setting.

Although the hospital has developed a strong research base and employs modern methods of diagnosis, the approach to treatment is chiefly centred around classical methods and with an emphasis on the shang han lun and wen bing theories on the treatment of disease.

This combination of an evidence-based approach coupled with the wisdom of classical teachings has established CMU as one of the world's leading hospitals specialising in integrative medicine.

Hybrid Learning - Online, Onsite Lectures / Clinical Work in London

A proportion of lectures will take place online and be streamed from locations within the UK and from Taiwan and there will also be onsite lectures in London. Clinical work will take place in the UK teaching clinic, with input from China Medical University Hospital. The lectures and clinical work will be under the direction of Dr Hung-Rong Yen in Taiwan and by Dr Tony Booker in the UK.

Instructed by Industry Experts

Dr Hung-Rong Yen is the current Dean of China Medical University and well known as a leading clinician and researcher in the field of Chinese medicine. Dr Tony Booker is a reader (associate professor) in ethnopharmacology, focusing on East Asian medicine, he has been a practitioner of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine for over 25 years and is a past President of The Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine (RCHM).

Entry Requirements:

Acupuncturists with a degree-level qualification in Chinese medicine acupuncture, and Western medical sciences (Read the detailed Entry Requirement here)

(Individuals who do not meet the prerequisites are encouraged to complete a foundation course beforehand.)