Towards a Safer Choice - The Practice of Traditional Chinese medicine in Australia
8. Education in Traditional Chinese medicine

Table 8.9

  Institution Course Total contact hours Basic and medical sciences (exemplary range) Science subject hours TCM subjects offered (exemplary range) TCM subject hours Clinical practice
1. Acad of TCM in
Aust. (Melb)
AdvDipTCM 3578 First aid, anatomy, physiology, pathology, microbiology, diagnostic tests, pharmacology, research methods, clinical diagnosis 642 TCM theory, TCM diagnosis, acupuncture herbal medicine, differential diagnosis, mandarin, specialist TCM subjects, physical therapies, massage 1,256 1,680
2. Acad of Natural
Therapies (Qld)
DipA (Acup)ppSc 2500 Not provided 1,000 Not provided 875 625
3. Aust College of
Natural Medicine (Qld)
DipAppSc(Acup) 1562 Anatomy & physiology, clinical medicine, biochemistry, nutrition, communication, professional practice, personal development 656 Intro to CM, point location, intro to Chin pathology, therapeutics, Chinese dietetics, differential diagnosis, CM pathology 531 375
4. Aust Inst of
App Sci (Qld)
DipAppSc (Acup) 1670 Anatomy & physiology, chemistry, biochemistry,pharmacology, clinical medicine, musculoskeletal anatomy, counselling, nutrition Not provided Chinese philosophy, point location, Chinese herbs, Chinese pathology, acupuncture techniques, therapeutics Not provided Not provided
5. College of
TCM Aust (Vic)
DipTCM 3000 Not provided 500 Not provided 1500 1000
6. Hepburn's College
of App Sci (Qld)
DipAppSc (TCM) 1640 Not provided 574 Not provided 492 574
7. Melb Coll of Natural Medicine DipAppSc
(Acup)
1562 As per Australain College of Natural Medicine (No 3) 656 As per Australain College of Natural Medicine (No 3) 531 375
8. RMIT BAppSc (HB)
BAppSc(CM)
3824 Psychology, human biology, micro-biology,anatomy, biophysics, pathology, statistics, biological chemistry, histology, pharmacology physiology, nutrition, neuroscience, laboratory pathology, radiology, medical diagnosis, neurophysiology 1,242 Principles of Chin Med, diagnosis in CM, pharmacology of CM, acupuncture principles, Chinese medicinal formulae, Chinese internal medicine, history of CM, classical literature in CM, Chin Med sciences 978 1,358
    MAppSc (Acup) 845 Neurophysiology of acupuncture & pain, clinical epidemiology, research project, biostatistics, workshops 286 Acupuncture principles, acupuncture practice, diagnosis of CM, pharmacology of patent Chin med, patent Chine med. 416 143
9. Syd College of TCM DipTCM 2540 Anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, diagnosis, pathology, research methods, professional issues 406 TCM theory, TCM history, acupuncture, Chin herbs, external med, diagnostic patterns, wen bing & jin kui, formulae, internal medicine, schools of TCM 1,067 1,067
10. UTS BHlthSc (Acup) 2500 Anatomy & physiology, research methods, pathophysiology, intro microbiology, pharmacology, clinical features of disease, first aid, disease states, research project 834 Intro to acupuncture, point location, foundations of acup, needle & moxibustion, Chin diagnostic system, adv Chin diagnosis, adv Chin massage, adv acup principles 833 833
11. VUT BHlthSc (TCM) 2417 Human bioscience, psychology, biological sciences, first aid, research subjects 1,000 TCM, Acupuncture & Moxib., Chin. herbal med. 1,000 500
12. Sth Aust College of Natural Therapies & TCM DipAppSc 2220 Anatomy & phyisiology, chemistry, biochemistry,communication & counselling, medical symptomatology & diagnosis, pathology, pharmacology, notifiable diseases 490 TCM philosophy, oriental meridian physiology, mandarin,tai chi, oriental nutrition, acupuncture point location, Chinese materia medica, oriental diagnosis, acupuncture, 800 930