ICOM Plus is a developmental and supervisory initiative for all ICOM Graduates designed to support your personal and professional development as acupuncturists. It is aimed at co-ordinating, deepening and formalising our community of practice.
ICOM Plus is a space for accessing practice resources unique to ICOM, providing a virtual space for meeting, discussion and exchange of ideas, and for organising bespoke practical workshops and CPD activities.
How much does it cost?
Membership costs £120 per year (payable £10 a month) for ICOM Graduates.
What’s included?
Access to our monthly on-line sessions. A 2-hour long meeting, on a Tuesday evening – facilitated by an experienced acupuncturist. Topics for discussion vary but may include
- Pathology seminar – how to read blood tests
- Complex case history presentations
- Pathogenesis of Chronic disease
- Marketing and website management
- Supervision Session – Open forum – how is practice going?
- Patient practitioner relationship
Access to on-line resources – this includes:
- A dedicated TEAMS platform and message board for communication and access.
- Exclusive access to the late Giovanni Maciocia’s archive of power point presentations on a wide spectrum of Chinese Medicine related material.
- ICOM Graduates are given access to certain lecture material relevant to their previous study.
Free training in SU WEN herbs – this herbal medicine course will hone your diagnostic skills and enable you to prescribe SU WEN herbs to those patients that need them. You will be invited, for free, to join the course where you will attend 10 teacher led lectures of two and a half hours. With the accompanying manual you will then be allowed to prescribe these patent herbs! Add a valuable skill to your practice.
Bi-Monthly practical workshops – dedicated to honing practical skills these sessions may include:
- Point location practice
- Needle technique
- Pulse taking/balancing
- Moxa
- Cupping
- Gua Sha
- Palpation
- Qi gong
A small fee will be chargeable for in-person sessions to cover the teacher’s costs.
15% discount for ICOM CPDs and priority booking*
*15% discount applies to CPD courses led by a member of the ICOM faculty team. Discounts for CPDs with external speakers will be at the discretion of the tutor.
Please note ICOM Plus is currently only available to qualified Acupuncturists who have graduated from the International College of Oriental Medicine. We plan to open the scheme up to Graduates of other BAAB-Accredited Acupuncture colleges in due course. Watch this space. You can email us for more information and to express interest in joining.
