Limitations TCM education is incomplete without clinical and practical teaching, which of course cannot be provided on-line. Being conscious of this shortcoming, we strongly advise our students to complete their education with practical classes and clinical internship. Besides, we recommend internship in Chinese hospitals. TCM is not meant to antagonize Western Medicine, much less pretend to be a substitute to it. Both types provide medical education with mixed programs.
Hospitals provide both type of medicine.
Since its birth 2500 years ago, TCM has been developing in a constant concern for health care organization, and this trend is confirmed by its important production of theoretical and clinical literature up to the present day. Since the fifties, China has dedicated important resources for the development of TCM, with higher education institutions, hospitals and the training of hundreds of thousands of TCM physicians. Besides substantial resources have been invested in scientific research. In the rest of the world, TCM has experienced a spectacular expansion over the past few decades. Although it has never come to play such a major role in national health systems as in China, this is now changing fast positive signs towards the official integration of TCM can be observed in many countries.