IRISH COLLEGE OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
APPLICATION DEADLINES
Master and Doctoral Degree programmes – no more applications can be accepted for the 2016 academic year.
Professional Training in Acupuncture TCM (Licentiate in TCM programme) – applications are still being accepted for the October 2016 start.
To apply please download the application form, fees and course information from www.ictcm.ie. No prior knowledge of either Western Medicine or Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is required.
The Role of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Palliative Cancer Care
The Founder and Director of the Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ICTCM), Prof. Thomas Shanahan, recently had great pleasure in accepting the position of Vice-chairman of a Specialist Committee looking into the role of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the provision of Palliative Care for Cancer.The invitation came from Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (GUCM) with whom the ICTCM has had a formal affiliation since the early 2000s.
The invitation was as follows: “In order to strengthen communication and cooperation in the field of palliative care for cancer between countries (region), The World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies WFCMS has authorized Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (GUCM) to set up the Preparatory Group of “The Specialist Committee of Palliative Care for Cancer of WFCMS”. The Chief (Chairman) of the Specialist Committee is Prof. LIN Lizhu, Director of the Tumor Department of the NO.1 Affiliated Hospital of GUCM.We think it is a good opportunity for our university to work with you in academic communication about cancer treatment, so we would you like offer you the post of Vice Chief (Chairman) of the Committee.”
The preparatory meeting took place in Guangzhou on December 26th, 2015.
Acupuncture and TCM at the Irish College of TCM in Dublin
We are currently accepting applications for our Licentiate in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) course which provides full professional training in Acupuncture TCM, including Clinical training, in Dublin, Ireland. It is designed for adults wishing to work in this interesting, worth-while, self-employed profession.
To apply please download the application form, fees and course information from www.ictcm.ie No prior knowledge of either Western Medicine or Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is required.
The Lic.TCM beings in mid-October each year and attracts students not only from Ireland but from many other countries in Europe and beyond, as the college is centrally located in Dublin within easy reach of the airport and the ferry terminal.
This 3 year, part-time, weekends-only course has been successfully running since 1983.
It provides a recognised qualification in Acupuncture TCM after which you can:
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Spring Qigong Workshop Early Bird Discount
The Spring Qigong Workshop at the Irish College of TCM, in Dublin 3 will take place on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th March 2016, from 10.00 to 4.30 each day.
Some places are still available.
The weekend is only €170 if you book and pay before 4th March.
The normal course fee is €190.
It is essential to Book in advance.
Please go to our website to obtain a course leaflet, Booking Form and Fee information for the Spring Qigong Workshop.
Spring Qigong Workshop 19th and 20th March 2016
Health-promoting Qigong (pronounced Cheegung), also known as Qigong for Health and Wellbeing, is part of the ancient system of Chinese therapeutic exercises.
We are happy to announce that we are running another Introductory Qigong Weekend this Spring, on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th March at our College in Dublin 3.
The weekend introduces you to a number of different simple but effective Qigong “Exercises” that you can practice at home, on your own, on a daily basis to enhance your own health. They include simple static postures or simple movements, breathing exercises and relaxation/meditation techniques. Some theoretical introduction to Qigong and Medical Qigong is also provided.
The workshop is open to all adult members of the public. No previous experience of Qigong, TCM, meditation, Chinese exercises or Martial Arts is required.
Adults of all ages, and levels of health and fitness, can benefit from and enjoy this weekend of gentle exercise and relaxation.
It is essential to Book in advance.
Please go to our website to obtain a course leaflet, Booking Form and Fee information for the Spring Qigong Workshop.
This weekend is an essential introductory pre-requisite for anyone wishing to take part in one of our Health-promoting or Medical Qigong Certificate courses.
The hidden treasures of Qigong are said to include not only improvement in health, vitality and recuperative power but also in happiness, longevity, beauty, refinement and spiritual development.
As Qigong Master Professor Xia noted, “Your experience will tell you if this is true”.
The Qigong teacher for the March weekend trained in Guangzhou, China with Professor Xia and is a Council Member of the World Academic Society of Medical Qigong (WASMQ), and will be contributing a paper at the next WASMQ Conference in Beijing in June 2016. The photo below is from the 2014 WASMQ Conference.
Visit our website to get more information about Qigong and the courses we offer.
Happy Chinese New Year of the Fire Monkey
新年快乐
The Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine is very happy to wish all our friends, colleagues, staff and students in Ireland, China and throughout the world a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous year of the Fire Monkey which commences on Monday 8th February.
We hope to welcome many more students to enrol on our courses during this coming year, thus helping us to fulfil our mission to establish an enduring base of well-educated and well-qualified professional practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Ireland and
beyond.
To view Application Packs for our main Acupuncture Training programme, the Master and Doctoral Degrees in Chinese Medicine and other Post-graduate options please go to our recently up-dated website www.ictcm.ie.
The next Qigong workshop will be running on 19th and 20th March.
We are also accepting applications now for our next intake of Acupuncture students – October start.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016
The Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine wishes a successful, happy and prosperous New Year to all our
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Students
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Friends and
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across the world.
News of our current recruitment and events will follow soon.
Nobel Prize for Chinese Herbal Medicine Researcher Tu Youyou
Madam Tu Youyou, an 84 year old Chinese Pharmacologist has been awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize for her work on the development of artemisinin, a plant derivative that has significantly reduced death rates from malaria.
Madam Tu undertook the task of extensively researching the historical text books of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine, where she remembered having seen references to Herbal substances which treated what is called “Malaria” in Western Medicine.
In a text called The Manual of Clinical Practice and Emergency Remedies by Ge Hong dating from the East Jin Dynasty (265 to 420 AD), she and her colleagues found mention of Qing Hao (Artemisia annua) – being used to treat malaria. This is the plant from which artemisinin was derived.
Qing Hao is part of the Chinese Medicine pharmacopoeia taught at the ICTCM and is still used by TCM Herbal Practitioners today.
Drugs based on Artemisinin are now routinely used in the fight against malaria, which still kills half a million people a year. We congratulate Madam Tu on her pioneering work, being the first expert in Chinese traditional medicine to be awarded a Nobel prize.
The illustration describing Madam Tu’s work was displayed during the press conference announcing the winners of the Nobel Medicine Prize.
Chinese Herbal Medicine
To commemorate our twenty years of teaching the Diploma in Chinese Herbal Medicine at the ICTCM we have had a new college badge produced which includes the Chinese character for Herbal Medicine – the character YAO – as shown here.
Over the last 20 years, many professional Acupuncture TCM practitioners have chosen to extend their range of therapeutic options by completing the Chinese Herbal Medicine diploma course with us.
On successful completion of this course graduates are able to prescribe a wide range of tailor-made prescriptions for their clients, either to augment Acupuncture treatment or as a treatment method of Chinese Medicine in its own right.
We are offering the diploma course again in 2016 and welcome applications from suitably qualified practitioners of Acupuncture TCM.
Prospectus packs for the Diploma in Chinese Herbal Medicine and for the Acupuncture TCM professional training programme are currently available. To apply please download the application form, fees and course information.
Please note that applications for the 2015 Professional Acupuncture Training will be closing soon as the course commences in mid October.
Chinese Medicine, What is it.
Chinese Medicine – What is it?
If you are thinking of Chinese Medicine as a career, why not go to a free talk, to be given by Professor Tom Shanahan, at the RDS as part of Which Course Expo.
Tom’s talk will introduce all the various components of Chinese Medicine Treatment with an explanation of what each entails and he will show examples of what is in a typical Acupuncture and TCM practitioner’s Clinical Treatment Case.
The talk will take place at 12.00 noon on Sunday 6th September.
You can pick up a Prospectus from the Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine stand, which is STAND 6, at any time during the Which Course Expo, for the following courses:
Acupuncture TCM – Professional Training Programme
Chinese Herbal Medicine Diploma Course
Qigong and Medical Qigong programmes
Post-graduate Masters Degree in Chinese Medicine
Post-graduate Doctoral Degree in Chinese Medicine
The Which Course Expo is taking place at the RDS on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September 2015.
Location: Serpentine Hall, RDS, Dublin 4
Opening Times: Saturday and Sunday: 11am until 4pm
Entrance Fee: FREE
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