Chinese Medicine Institute of New Zealand
The Institute has created a range of accredited pathways for our students to follow. Wherever in the country you live, training can be undertaken through hybrid learning programmes. This means you study in our zoom classrooms coming on site in Auckland for your block courses, six times a year for acupuncture and twice a year for the herbal programmes. On graduation you will be eligible to practice acupuncture registered with the CMCNZ or to add herbal medicine to your existing scope of practice.
Our pathways
Our range of accredited courses mean that you can find a pathways that enables you to build upon existing skills or start from scratch.
Acupuncture for health professionals
RPL for registered health practitioners. In recognising your existing skills, we enable you to be practicing acupuncture in two years.
Acupuncture for everyone
If you are starting your journey into becoming a health practitioner we teach from foundations to clinical practice.
Herbal medicine for acupuncturists - patents
Practicing acupuncturists can add to their skills by studying this herbal foundations course, teaching how to safely and effectively use patent herbs. This is the foundational knowledge required to undertake the full herbal prescribing course.
Herbal prescribing
Creating personalised prescriptions from raw herbs or powders gives a practitioner complete control to create truly personalised medicines. This course is accredited by the CMCNZ and permits graduates to add an additional scope to their registration.
Why train with CMI?
Hybrid by design
Study from home and in our zoom classroom. Attend immersive block courses to learn practical skills in Auckland six times a year for acupuncture or twice a year for the herb programmes.
CMCNZ Accredited
Graduates are eligible to register with the Chinese Medicine Council of New Zealand and to work as an ACC provider.
Practice in Australia
The Trans-Tasman recognition means that graduates are able to apply to practice in Australia under the same scope of registration.
Small cohorts, great teachers
No lecture halls of hundreds; you are taught by the founders of the Institute and select highly qualified practitioner teachers.