Five Branches University

Five Branches University offers certifications and degrees in Traditional Chinese Medicine, herbology, nutrition, bodywork, acupuncture and more.

 

Have you have been considering making your pas-sion for natural health your profession? If you are looking at going back to school to make that a reality, you could not have picked a better time. Natural health options are rapidly becoming the first choice among those looking for healing and wellness for themselves and their family. Choosing the restorative power of integrative medicine over the temporary answer traditional medicine offers - is now an effective, natural, safe solution accepted by mainstream America.

The Bay Area offers many options for getting you there with classes and programs that fit your lifestyle, budget and goals. Five Branches University, with campuses in San Jose and Santa Cruz, offers Certifications, Degrees & Continuing Education Units in bodywork, herbology, energetics, acupuncture and nutritional healing. Programs easily fit into any calendar with academic and clinical classes conveniently scheduled days, nights and weekends. Their primary degree program enables graduates to sit for the state and national board licensing exams as an acupuncturist and herbalist.

Marilyn Allen, editor for Acupuncture Today, teaches the management classes at Five Branches University. She recently informed them that Acupuncturists who also administer herbal pharmacopeia have been statistically recognized as the fastest growing primary healthcare choice for Americans. In California, licensed acupuncturists are included on your health insurance, qualified to treat over 80% of their patients' healthcare needs. Earlier this year, the department of labor included this profession as one who will have more demand than there will be practitioners to fulfill by 2010.

If you are curious about a career as an integrative medicine practitioner using massage/bodywork, herbs, nutrition, acupuncture, energetics, or all of these as a Traditional Chinese Medicine physician, mark your calendar for Five Branches next Natural Health Education Event. Glimpse life as a student and patient of some or all aspects of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Hear about the limitless career possibilities and endless opportunities to customize and tailor your expertise to fit your personal path to help others, sit in on classes, chat with students and alumni, enjoy a treatment in the teaching clinic, tour the San Jose campus and meet program directors and administration for a complete Q & A session. And also inquire about our Natural Health Education Events Series.