Barefoot Medicine in Chico, California
Benefits:
- Training in Barefoot Medicine
- Community-style diagnosis and treatment of pain and stress
- Presentation, communication and teaching skills
- Access to ready-made connections for presenting and growing a community-style, pain and stress clinical practice
- Turn-key operation of a clinic furnished and ready for business
The one or two practitioners selected for this position will be trained in good-quality fundamentals of community acupuncture practice for pain and stress. In addition, the practitioners will learn to how to present and teach to:
1. Lay persons
2. Other medical professionals
Practitioners will be expected to direct class(es) in Chico as well as offer information sessions with the lay-public and other medical professionals in order to grow their own practice. Such sessions may include Enloe Medical Center as well as radio, print and interviews and presentations to local and international non-profit organizations operating from Chico and the surrounding area.
Responsibilities and commitments:
Practitioners are required to complete their 60 hour core-curriculum in Barefoot Medicine Training. All courses are approved for CEU’s from CAB. There is a 6 month commitment during which time students must complete training in-full, as well as assume responsibility for rent and expenses of the community clinic. Students also have the opportunity to attend an externship in rural Guatemala at a western hospital (see: CIELOExternships.com/acupuncture_externship).
Comments:
Chico is a truly unique community, extremely well-suited to community-style practice. My roll as mentor is to prepare practitioners, providing the addition skills required to succeed in practice in the US, by:
1. Providing a viable space and conspicuous location
2. Furnishing practitioners with the communications skills required to grow their practice in their chosen community
3. Facilitating the connections and introductions necessary for further networking
This opportunity will require a willingness to obtain skills generally over-looked in TCM schools in North America. The training you receive will not only stand you in good stead with the California Acupuncture Board for maintaining the status of your license current, it will also serve you in whatever capacity you choose, should you elect to depart. In other words, this skills are yours to keep.
This opportunity and model of delivery does not preclude practitioners from operating a ‘spa’ style practice wherein they spend greater length of time with patients and charge a higher fee.
Contact:
Christian Nix
(866) 841 9139 ext. 1011
Christian@teishininstitute.com
*All courses approved by NCCAOM and CAB for Continuing Education Hours (PDA’s)
