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| Overview |
| Acupuncture and Oriental herbal medicine are rapidly gaining recognition across the United States as an effective, low-cost medical treatment that works in harmony with the body's natural-healing ability. In California, acupuncturists are primary health-care practitioners. Stanton University welcomes your interest in Oriental Medicine. Although the program emphasizes the medical and professional aspects of Oriental Medicine, we view Oriental Medicine as the application of spiritual development, its foundation being the spiritual capability to understand life, as well as the philosophy and process of healing. Human life is a phenomenon of nature - Oriental Medicine views a person's health in terms of the entire life being rather than in terms of limited symptoms, their immediate origins and their various manifestations. To embark upon a career in Oriental Medicine - acupuncture, moxibustion, traditional Oriental diagnosis, traditional Oriental herbal prescription, Western biomedical sciences and Chinese and Korean traditional medical practices - requires an understanding of both the spiritual and physical realms of health care. Diagnosis and treatment focus on the well-being of the entire person, the mind and body, not simply on the presence of physical complaints and symptoms. It is a great challenge to those who have received the benefits of a modern Western education to add to the specificity of their knowledge an integral view of the whole body rather than separate views of its parts. The Stanton University Oriental Medicine program is designed to turn out well-rounded graduates who understand the tradition and history of Oriental Medicine as well as the philosophy and process of healing. The master's degree program is designed to provide highly motivated students with an opportunity to pursue a career as health-care practitioners in this rapidly growing field. While the program stresses the traditional Chinese approach to Oriental Medicine, students are exposed to the influence that Korea, Japan and India have contributed to the discipline. We believe that a program strong in Oriental and Western clinical sciences provides our graduates with an in-depth understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of Oriental Medicine, while cultivating a strong foundation in Western clinical sciences. This integration provides a basis for the practical, as well as the intellectual, unification of Eastern and Western medical philosophies, thereby enabling Stanton's graduates to have an understanding of a patient's condition from a Western medical perspective and to make informed and responsible referral decisions. The ultimate goal of Stanton's Oriental Medicine program is to bridge Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western clinical medicine as complementary medicine based on the fundamental medical precepts of these medical modalities; thereby, providing a superior-integrated curriculum in the education and training of students as health-care practitioners, while promoting a view of Oriental Medicine as being complementary, rather than as an alternative, to Western clinical medicine. The emphasis placed on the teaching of Western medical sciences in conjunction with the traditional Oriental approaches to health makes Stanton University graduates well qualified to work alongside other health-care professionals in hospitals, clinics, and other health-care facilities. Stanton University's Oriental Medicine program offers quality, flexibility and value through small classes that foster interaction with the faculty and among students. Courses are taught by working professionals who practice what they teach. Instructors are selected for their professional capability as well as their advancement of the discipline of Oriental Medicine. Students who wish to become licensed acupuncturists are advised to familiarize themselves with the requirements for licensing in the state in which they intend to practice. Academic, internship practice, and other requirements vary from state to state. Complete information on California licensing requirements can be obtained from the Acupuncture Board, 444 North 3rd Street, Suite 260, Sacramento, CA 95814. Telephone: (916) 445-3021 or (800) 952-5210, Fax: (916) 445-3015, www.acupuncture.ca.gov. |