Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine to visit Ireland in November 2012
The ICTCM will be hosting the visit of a high-ranking official Delegation from Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine (GUCM) in early November. Vice President Xu and Professor Wang will launch recruitment to the new Master of Chinese Medicine Degree and Doctoral programme during their visit.
All graduates, students and friends of the ICTCM and selected supporters of Chinese Medicine in Ireland will be invited to a launch ceremony in Dublin during the visit. Admission is by invitation only.
If you have not yet received your invitation and wish to attend please contact the college now.
Chinese Ambassador visits ICTCM
The ICTCM were delighted to welcome to the College, the Chinese Ambassador to Ireland His Excellency Luo Linquan, and the First Secretary Mr Yang Zhijun. It was the new Ambassador’s first visit and he inspected the College and was kind enough to present graduation certificates to the newly qualified Acupuncture TCM practitioners.
The new graduates came from Ireland, the UK and Canada and are setting up practices in Ireland and the UK.
Ambassador Luo expressed his high approval of the College facilities and standards and gave his whole-hearted support for the forthcoming Master and Doctoral Degree in Chinese Medicine that is being offered at the College in Dublin in conjunction with Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine.
The Chinese Embassy in Ireland website also has some information in Chinese about this visit.
Ambassador Luo Linquan with President Tom Shanahan.
Ambassador Luo Linquan and ICTCM staff. July 2012.
- ICTCM graduates and staff. July 2012.
- First Secretary Yang with senior ICTCM staff.
Masters and Doctoral Degree In Chinese Medicine
Postgraduate degrees in Chinese Medicine
We are pleased to announce that recruitment for the Masters degree and Doctoral Degree in Chinese Medicine will be launched during a visit to Ireland by the Vice President of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, in November this year.
The start date for the two year Masters degree or three year Doctoral degree will be 2013.
For a Masters or Doctoral Degree prospectus pack and fee information please contact the College. Prospectus packs and application forms will be available soon. The information will also be made available on the Postgraduate Courses page of this site.
Signing of the Masters Degree agreement.
December 2005.
Director's visit to GUCM
Tom Shanahan received an invitation to lecture at Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine in November 2011
The Director of the Irish College of TCM, Tom Shanahan, was presented with a Visiting Professorship by Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine in 2004. Since then he has been to GUCM on numerous occasions to liaise with fellow TCM experts and to participate in International TCM Conferences.
During his most recent visit, in November 2011, he was invited by the University’s Department of Acupuncture Moxibustion to give a lecture on Acupuncture TCM in Ireland to their English-speaking undergraduate Acupuncture students, and was honoured to accept this prestigious invitation.
The two-hour lecture was held in the Mega University Campus, the main under-graduate venue outside the city. It was very well attended and students enquired extensively, and at considerable length, about the state of Acupuncture TCM abroad and asked the “Visiting foreign experts” for their views on the preservation of Traditional Chinese Medicine in modern China itself.
The photograph below shows Director Tom Shanahan and Registrar Mary Plunkett with some of the main staff and students of GUCM who organised the event, including Professor Song Xinhong who is in charge of the Medical Qigong Department at GUCM and is the Honorary Professor of Qigong in the Medical Qigong faculty of the ICTCM.
Students of GUCM with Professor T.J.Shanahan, Registrar M.Plunkett and Professor Song Xinhong.
