Studying through a Pandemic: future-proofing our acupuncture careers By Melanie Cullis, third year student In six weeks, the class of 2022 will be graduating from CCA as bona fide acupuncturists. It’s been quite the journey! In the summer of 2019, I signed up to study Traditional Chinese Medicine. Many aspects of my life had pushed…
I have the best job in the world.
Alice Douglas, LicAc MBAcC I have the best job in the world. I say this all the time, but I really do mean it. When I finished my A levels at age 18, I decided I was going to study acupuncture. There were some funny looks from the people in my life. People believed I…
Why now is a great time to retrain as an acupuncturist at CCA
By programme leader Paul Johnson A new year, a new start? The Christmas break is a period when people often take some time out to think about where they are going in life, and if they should be making any major life changes. This year will be no exception! In these strange times, a lot…
Learnings from lockdown
By Vanessa Menendez-Covelo, CCA graduate 2019, vanessacovelo.com I expected 2020 to be exciting, but maybe not so much! I hit the ground running after my graduation in September 2019 with everything in place to open an acupuncture clinic in Crouch End, North London. Little by little I started building up a patient list, and by February…
A Trip to China
By Kate Henley I am honoured to be chosen to amongst the 10 participants to be travelling to Harbin in the Heilongjiang province in January. This exchange programme is sponsored by the BAcC and is a partnership between the London Confucius Institute for TCM at the South Bank University and the Heilongjiang University of Chinese…
All the questions you should have asked…
It isn’t until you get to the end of studying Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that you really understand the questions you should have asked before you started training. Hindsight is a marvelous thing! I thought it might be useful to help you clarify the questions that you should be asking of any Acupuncture…
One Year as a Qualified Acupuncturist
By James Woodward. I first discovered acupuncture through my interest in Japanese reiki. A few books I had read gave me hints that some of the more traditional techniques were based on Chinese medicine. That was ten years ago and I was volunteering at the support therapies centre in Canterbury hospital, a centre for patients…
‘But where exactly is it?’ – The pitfalls of Teaching and Learning Point Location
This month’s blog is an extract from an article written by our head of Acupuncture Point Location for the current edition of the Journal of Chinese Medicine. ‘But where exactly is it?’ – The pitfalls of Teaching and Learning Point Location By Paul Johnson, Joint Course Leader and Main Acupoints Tutor “As someone involved in…
“Is The City College of Acupuncture course the right course for me..?”
By Mark Whitham, Lecturer, City College of Acupuncture That’s a question everyone considering a career in Acupuncture is probably asking themselves. So here are a few things to consider when choosing a course… Firstly, you don’t need a degree to practice Acupuncture in the UK. In fact, as Acupuncture is not even regulated, you don’t need…
A year after graduating from CCA – a life in practice
By Anne Fallan, CCA graduate summer 2016 It has been quite a year since I graduated from the City College of Acupuncture! I took 3 weeks off before taking the plunge and worked for a local practitioner who was taking that August off to go travelling. I had observed them during my 3 years training…
Tui Na – doesn’t that normally come with sweetcorn and mayonnaise?
By Paul Johnson, Joint Acupuncture Course Leader, The City College of Acupuncture Twenty years ago, whenever you saw the word ‘acupuncture’ written down it would invariably be followed by ‘the ancient Chinese art of inserting incredibly fine needles into specific points on the body to stimulate a healing response’, usually in brackets. Nowadays everyone knows what…
Treating in our student clinic
Treating in our student clinic The final part of studying either acupuncture or Tui Na at CCA involves working in our student clinic. After focused study and plenty of practice, our students are let loose on paying patients from the general public! The students will tell you that this is both frightening and exhilarating at…
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