Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a registered business name of Sydney Institute of Health Sciences Pty Ltd
NTIS No: 5143 CRICOS No: 01768K
The Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SITCM) is one of Australia’s leading Traditional Chinese Medicine educational institutions, delivering practical, career orientated courses for over 28 years. It is a progressive institution, established to promote the growth and development of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) within our community and the health profession. The Institute aims to produce primary health care practitioners who practice their profession in a safe, effective and responsible manner within the framework of TCM.
The training courses provided by the SITCM are designed to empower graduates to serve the community through primary health care, ongoing education programs and work alongside other therapists in various clinical settings. The Institute fosters open-mindedness and commitment to high ideals, providing an environment in which students are able to develop the habits of continuing self-education and self-fulfillment through service to others.
Advanced Diploma of Traditional Chinese Medicine - 91133NSW
Open Day: Saturday 4 February 2012, 10am - 2pm
Double Modalities of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine
Articulation pathway to Bachelor Degree
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The Future of TCM: A Global Perspective
In China, TCM doctors work in hospitals. The busiest hospital in the world are TCM hospitals. For example, the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine received 5.7 million patients in 2010.
In Australia, TCM is currently being taught in medical universities. Research into Chinese Medicine has taken place in many universities, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals. There are several thousand medical acupuncturists practicing in Australia.
The prospect of the TCM recognition in Australia is promising with TCM formally becoming a government recognised health profession when TCM National registration takes place on 1 July 2012. Also in 2012, the first TCM hospital with an integrated Medical centre will open in North Sydney, which is supported by both the Australian and Chinese government
In Europe, there are more than 3000 TCM clinics in the UK and a TCM hospital operating in Germany.
In Japan, medical graduates are required to pass a TCM examination in order to become licensed medical doctors. The medical system in Japan utilizes a combination of Chinese and Western medicine.
In Korea and Taiwan, enrolment into TCM degrees in requires a higher entrance score than into Western medicine degrees.
The combination of Chinese and Western medicine has shown great advantages, both medically and economically. A recent report has found that in USA (population: 305 million, average lifespan: 78 years) where Western medicine is mainstream, an average of USD $8105 per person was spent on public medical expenses in 2010. Whereas in China (population: 1.37 billion, average lifespan: 73 years), a country with a combination of the two medical systems, an average person spent RMB $1430 (approx. USD $220) on public medical expenses in 2010: one of the lowest in the world.
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 update bulletin: On 9 October 2009 Australia has 36895 confirmed cases of pandemic (H1N1) 2009. Deaths The number of deaths associated with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 continues to increase. As of 9 October, 185 people have died. Of these deaths, four were pregnant women and 24 (13.11%) were Indigenous.
China’s CCTV reported on 10 October 2009 that China has 28750 pandemic (H1N1) cases and only one death since the break out of the pandemic that was recorded on 6th October 2009, who is an 18 year-old Tibetan woman. CCTV also reported that Chinese herbal medicine was commonly used for the epidemic in China.
Evidence strongly suggests that the future medicine system is a combination of Chinese and Western Medicine. More and more Australians are turning to complementary and alternative health services, spending a record $4.3 billion on such treatments in 2009-2010 financial year. Nowadays, alternative medicine practitioners are all learning acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.
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