Hands-On Learning
The importance of numbers
At SCU, you'll develop healing hands with a curriculum that teaches you more than how to properly needle a patient, prescribe herbs, and prepare nutritional plans. You'll learn how to treat the whole body while applying centuries-old procedures through a wide variety of hands-on learning opportunities.
The strength of our AOM program lies in the numbers. Specifically, we offer more laboratory hours (900) and internship hours (1,050) than most schools of acupuncture/oriental medicine. We also are the only AOM school on the West Coast with an on-campus, student-tended herb garden. You can learn the herbal production process from the ground up.
We've thought of everything.
With a push toward integrated medicine, the best acupuncture practitioners know how to integrate Western medical science with Eastern philosophy medicine. Our AOM program combines biomedical instruction with practical experience in on-campus anatomy and radiology labs. At the same time, you'll study the various components that make up oriental medicine, including acupuncture, breathing and balancing exercises, and nutritional therapy. A variety of hands-on learning experiences will help you connect the two approaches.
Standardized Patients. Become comfortable with acupuncture/oriental medicine by treating real people, not dummies, through one-on-one interactions with trained actors who present a particular ailment, and expect you to diagnose and treat them. You'll work with standardized patients throughout the program, starting in your first term.
Clinical Internships. Train under skilled acupuncture/oriental medicine experts in our state-of-the-art health centers in Whittier and Pasadena, offering chiropractic care, acupuncture/oriental medicine, massage therapy, rehabilitation services, and radiological care to local residents. You'll diagnose and treat your patients.
Community Service. Provide acupuncture care to various groups such as bicyclists, athletes, firefighters, and breast cancer walk and tae kwon do tournament participants through community service projects.
Research. Explore the connection between ginger and migraines, Ayurvedic medicine and acupuncture, and many other topics by conducting research alongside faculty members.
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