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07
Is it worth getting a Master’s degree of Traditional Chinese Medicine?
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Question: Hi.I am an Asian and new in America.And I want to get a master’s degree in the US.I am considering to get a master’s degree of traditional Chinese medicine and accupucture.It may take me three years and 30000 USD to get this degree.
Cuz I am new here,I don’t know the future and status in qua of a Chinese medicine and accupucture practitioner.Could somebody pls introduce something about that?Is it worth getting that master’s degree?
2 Comments
November 7th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I’m also really drawn to TCM, but I decided against it, at least for now. Unless you’re in a few, very specific area of the US, there really isn’t a big call for it. You could do very well in certain areas of the country, but you will pretty much have to own your own business. Or, you could barely scrape by.
BTW, most of the programs I looked at actually cost significantly more than $30k once you add in all the other expenses.
November 7th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Educated Chinese in China laugh at “Traditional Medicine Medicine ” but for social/political reasons it is difficult for the Chinese to get rid of it. Acupuncture was actually banned it China for a while before Mao brought it back because there were not enough “Western medicine” doctors. (Better to have an “appearance” of supplying medical care even though it was worthless…).
Very little of Traditional Chinese Medicine passes tests of efficacy. It is simply not an evidence-based science.
I suggest you stay away for TCM and find another career — something with professional respect.