What are the best ways to land a job in the field of acupuncture/Chinese medicine?
Unlike something like if you become a physical therapist or respiratory therapist or something like that, you can open the classifieds of any major city newspaper and you can find help wanted ads for these types of jobs. In the acupuncture Chinese medical profession, there aren’t lots of jobs available for you to get hired on somewhere. You kind of have to make it happen yourself, whether it’s going into a team setting in an established practice with an MD, Chiropractor or other acupuncturists, or going out and leasing an office and putting out a shingle, trying to get patients in the door. Most of those opportunities are opportunities the practitioners themselves have to generate; they’re not just applying for positions. How available are internships or other hands-on learning experiences? If you compare the education we get in this country to what may happen in the Far East, especially China, that’s an area where we are lacking. That’s an important thing students should look at in th
