Criteria for clinical hours done outside college clinics and hospitals:
This supervision must take place in a proper clinical environment as per the code of ethics and practice.
The monitoring practitioner must have practised for a minimum of 3000 hours – full time or part time.
The monitoring practitioner must treat a wide range of conditions including musculo-skeletal and internal medicine.
The monitoring practitioner must have 6 patients per day in his/her clinic.
Elective modules that may be included as extra hours to the core:
- Electro acupuncture
- Auricular acupuncture
- TDP lamp instruction
- Introduction to tuina techniques
- Medical qi gong