Medicine with Heart
Acupuncture wasn’t my first career. I started out in the arts, another field entirely, but after a while I decided I wanted something different for myself. I wanted to [...]
Are You Ready for Graduate School?
Written by Angela Xistris, reposted from 2012 Ah, Spring Break. There are no intensives in session and Class 27, our resident interns, headed for their respective hills last Friday. [...]
Observation Leads to Inspired Acupuncture Practitioner
In my last post I mentioned a comment from one of our student's, Banghan Nabi Kim in which she described acupuncture treatment as "offering a gift of points" and [...]
Clinical Impressions II: What About Family?
There's a countdown going on among the intern class. In less than two weeks, they hit the road for spring break, and it's clear how much they're looking forward [...]
Here’s to Not Worrying About the NCCAOM Exams
The interns seem to have arrived at THAT time of clinic. And I'm not talking about "senioritis." I'm talking about that moment when the big hurdles of clinic have [...]
For the Love of Herbs
The January flurry has come and gone. The Class of 2016 has finished their first intensive and they have headed home to begin integrating what they learned into their [...]
“He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.”
Yesterday we welcomed to newest cohort to Academy for Five Element Acupuncture. The winter class of 2016 began their first acupuncture intensive this week, starting Monday with a day [...]
Clinical Impressions: Part I
Welcome back everyone! I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving recesses. Here at Academy for Five Element Acupuncture, we welcome back our intern class, as well as the Class of [...]
The Best Times to Apply
We're going back to basics this week, as we get ready for our next Open House on October 27th. I thought I would get to one of the more [...]
The Heart of the Matter
"What is heart disease?" One of our interns wrote this question on the library white board recently, with a website written below it to help their fellow classmates find [...]