Postgraduate Courses

Postgraduate Courses in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Postgraduate courses in Traditional Chinese Medicine, designed for practising Acupuncturists and TCM professionals, living in Ireland and other parts of Europe and the world, are offered at the ICTCM. These postgraduate courses are all part-time and enable Acupuncture professionals to keep up to date with developments in the Acupuncture field. They also enable students to develop a deeper understanding of Traditional Chinese Medicine and improve their clinical practice.

Postgraduate students often wish to extend the range of TCM treatment options they can offer to clients so the specialisms we offer include: Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, Medical Qigong and Chinese Herbal Medicine. These are run as either Certificate level or Diploma level programmes as described below.

Short Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events are also run from time to time, either in our College in Dublin or via Zoom.

Postgraduate Certificate and Postgraduate Diploma courses

The Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma courses are modular, part-time and flexible in nature, designed to meet the needs of busy practitioners and to minimise disruption to their private medical practices. Dublin is well served with international flights and most of the courses are designed so that overseas postgraduate students (or those in distant parts of Ireland) should be able to fly into Dublin on a Friday morning and fly out again on a Sunday evening.

The Postgraduate Certificate courses are part-time and usually extend over one academic year, while the Diploma Courses are more advanced and last for two years.

Currently, the ICTCM is offering the following postgraduate programmes:

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Qigong (MQG)
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Qigong (MQG)
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM).
  • Advanced specialist courses in Medical Qigong which are only open to those who already have a Diploma in this treatment specialism.

The next page on Certificate and Diploma Courses provides links to these programmes.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Continuing Professional Development study options are offered to ICTCM graduates and other suitably qualified practitioners, to enable them to continually update their skills and knowledge of Chinese Medicine. The nature and content of the CPD programme varies from year to year and practitioners are also invited to suggest topics or areas for professional development which they are particularly interested in pursuing. A wide range of topics have been covered over the years and many eminent speakers have graced us with their presence.

Information about up-coming CPD is provided on our News and Events pages.

Photos of previous CPD events are available here.

For a list of previous visiting speakers click here.