Exciting News! Applications Now Open for 2025 Admissions!
Exciting News! Applications Now Open for 2025 Admissions!
Choosing a career in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) means stepping into a field dedicated to health, stability, and lifelong wellness—for yourself, your family, and your patients.
Our Diploma Programs equip you with the clinical knowledge and hands-on experience needed to thrive in the growing holistic health field.
Whether you envision working independently, collaborating within a healthcare team, or contributing to wellness in a broader context, CCATCM graduates are prepared for diverse and impactful career paths.
It’s a healthy, long-term, and stable medical career where you directly contribute to patient well-being.
Build a successful practice or join established clinics, with significant earning potential. (Indeed reported an average annual income of $98,000 for acupuncturists
in 2024 ).
Promote health and balance for yourself and those around you.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a rapidly growing healthcare profession with a rich 5,000-year history. Practicing acupuncture and TCM offers numerous benefits:
Versatile Treatment Capabilities
Effectively address a wide range of conditions, making acupuncture and TCM valuable tools in holistic healthcare.
Flexible Career Opportunities
Enjoy flexible working hours, the ability to be your own boss, and create a work-life balance that suits your needs.
Sustainable and Fulfilling Career
Practicing acupuncture and TCM is gentle on the body, making it a viable lifelong career path that many find rewarding and successful.
Our graduates are well-equipped to pursue various rewarding roles:
Many graduates open their own acupuncture and TCM clinics, tailoring services to areas like pain management, women’s health, or stress reduction and building lasting patient relationships.
Work alongside medical doctors, chiropractors, and other providers in centers that combine conventional medicine with alternative therapies, offering holistic patient care.
Provide treatments like acupuncture, cupping, and herbal consultations as part of wellness programs in the growing holistic health sector.
Help athletes with injury recovery, performance enhancement, and wellness in sports clinics and rehabilitation centers using acupuncture, cupping, and other TCM modalities.
Graduates pursue paths as Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners, Cosmetic Acupuncturists, Acupuncturists, and Entrepreneurs. They practice modalities like qi gong, tai chi, fire cupping, moxibustion, electro-acupuncture, scalp acupuncture, auricular acupuncture, and more. Common settings include private clinics, wellness centers, spas, cruise ships, and naturopathic clinics.
Earnings vary, especially if you own your clinic where you set your prices (typically $35-$190 per session). As reported by Indeed, the average annual income for an acupuncturist is around $98,000.
While many medical businesses are hiring acupuncturists, the most common path is opening your own clinic, allowing you to be your own boss. Other options include working on cruise ships, in naturopathic or wellness clinics, hospitals, and spas.
Registration requirements vary by province. In self-regulated provinces like Nova Scotia, you can practice without a licensing exam. Five provincially regulated (BC, AB, ON, QC, NL) require passing the Pan-Canadian Written and Clinical Case-Study Examinations. Some provinces may require additional safety or jurisprudence exams.
Yes, our program is specifically designed to thoroughly prepare students for both national and provincial licensing exams upon completion.
CCATCM is proud that 100% of our graduates pass the licensing exams on their first attempt.
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