The University of Malta, in collaboration with the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is once again offering the course leading to a Master Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Culture. This course will enable qualified medical practitioners and health-care professionals in the fields of nursing, midwifery and physiotherapy to understand the essential theory of Chinese medicine, to be familiar with the knowledge and techniques of acupuncture, and to safely manage common appropriate conditions through the use of acupuncture.
During the one-year course, teaching in the speciality is imparted from multidisciplinary, individual and population-based perspectives. Topics include: An outline of Chinese Culture, Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Diagnostics in Chinese Medicine, Channels and Acupoints, Needling and Moxibustion Techniques, Acupuncture and Moxibustion Therapy, Experimental Acupuncture and Moxibustion and Traditional Medicine and Culture.
The course will facilitate learning within a structured framework and on completion participants should be able to integrate Traditional Chinese Medicine as a form of therapy to complement modern Western clinical practice, or as a subject for scientific research within their clinical work or speciality.
Full course details are available online.
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