School of Oriental Medicine

Master of Oriental Medicine Program

The Master of Oriental Medicine degree program is designed to provide highly-motivated students with an opportunity to pursue a career in this rapidly growing field. While the program

Master of Oriental Medicine Program

The Master of Oriental Medicine degree program is designed to provide highly-motivated students with an opportunity to pursue a career in this rapidly growing field. While the program stresses the traditional Chinese approach to Oriental medicine, students are exposed to the influence that Korea, Japan, and India have contributed to the discipline.

The Master of Oriental Medicine Program subscribes to an educational philosophy that is marriage of Oriental and Occidental philosophies of teaching and learning where each student is viewed as being gifted. With humanistic understanding each student's gifts will find their full expression and the use of intellect to discover what we may become is the essence of humanistic study. To release one's gifts is to adopt a holistic view, acknowledging the individual's capacity for self-actualization, choice, growth and spirituality. The implementation of such teaching-learning model demands that individuals be considered in their many inseparable dimensions: body, mind and spirit and in their social, cultural and environmental contexts.

As a mode of education, this approach combines cognitive and methodological skills with affective and intuitive skills. It recognizes maturity and effectiveness are manifestations of perspective, experience and knowledge.

Focusing on the cultivation of professional expertise and personal development, the fundamental purpose of the Master of Oriental Medicine program is to promote excellence in Oriental Medicine. The expectations we have for students in the Master of Oriental Medicine program are high and students must be self-disciplined, willing to dedicate themselves to rigorous academic study, and resolve to attain complete development spiritually, as well as, intellectually.

Graduates of the Master of Oriental Medicine program will have the intellectual skills to understand allopathic, biomedical, evidence-based, and complimentary care practitioners and consumers of health and healing.

MOM Comprehensive Examination

The final step in qualifying for the MOM is to pass the MOM Comprehensive Examination. The MOM Comprehensive Examination is administered by a special examination committee appointed by the Dean of the School of Oriental Medicine. The exam is a written theory based exam approximately Five (5) hours in length and is evaluated on a pass/fail basis. Students are given three opportunities to pass the exam. Failure to pass the exam on the third attempt automatically disqualifies the student from further attempts until he/she has successfully completed additional prescribed coursework.

Doctor of Oriental Medicine in Research Advancement Program

The Doctor of Oriental Medical in Research Advancement program is a professional graduate program that builds on the specialized knowledge and expertise acquired at the master's level in Oriental Medicine. The program augments the master's level education by providing additional course work that meets California standard of primary care education as described in California acupuncture code AB 1943, and puts OM education on parity with all other primary care professions.

The study of clinical OM requires critical thinking, broad knowledge on current medical practice, dedication to patient care and the ability to bring OM into the medical main stream. Candidates are expected to pursue a career that is dedicated to improving healthcare by integrating OM into the American healthcare lexicon.

The program emphasizes the scientific basis of Oriental Medicine, clinical practice, research methodologies, and leadership skills and is designed to bring recognition of OM as a medical system that will be a significant part of the solution for today's healthcare problems.