North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 21 - OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS › Chapter 01 - ACUPUNCTURE › Section .0100 - LICENSURE › Section 01 .0101 - APPLICATION AND PRACTICE REQUIREMENTS FOR LICENSURE

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
In addition to and for the purposes of meeting the
				  requirements of
				  G.S.
				  90-455, an applicant for licensure to
				  practice acupuncture shall satisfy requirements one through six and eight
				  listed below or requirements one through five and requirements seven and eight
				  listed below:
(1) Submit a completed
				application;
(2) Submit fees as
				required by Rule .0103 of this Section;
(3) Ensure that an official copy of a
				diploma, transcript, license or certificate, examination score, or other
				document required for application is forwarded directly to the Board by the
				issuing entity or its successor organization or designated state agency.
				Documents shall have an official or government seal or written verification
				authenticating the document;
(4) If
				the applicant sat for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and
				Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) examination on or before June 30, 2004, the
				applicant shall submit proof that he or she passed the acupuncture written exam
				and the point location exam as established and determined by NCCAOM or its
				successor organization. If the applicant sat for the licensing examination
				after June 30, 2004, the applicant shall submit proof that he or she passed, as
				determined by NCCAOM, the following four NCCAOM modules: Foundations of
				Oriental Medicine, Acupuncture, Biomedicine and Point Location;
(5) Submit proof that he or she passed the
				Clean Needle Technique course as offered and determined by the Council of
				Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (CCAOM) or its successor
				organization;
(6) Submit proof of
				satisfying the education requirements listed below:
(a) US Trained Applicants. All U.S. trained
				applicants shall graduate from a three-year postgraduate acupuncture college,
				accredited by or in candidacy status by the Accreditation Commission for
				Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM) or its successor
				organization.
(b) Foreign Trained
				Applicants. All foreign trained applicants shall graduate from a postgraduate
				acupuncture college that meets the curricular requirements of ACAOM. The
				college shall also be approved by either:
(i)
				A foreign government's Ministry of Education;
(ii) A foreign government's Ministry of
				Health;
(iii) A governmental agency
				that is comparable to a division or department of the US Government charged
				with educational accreditation; or
(iv) A private foreign accreditation agency
				that has an accreditation process and standards substantially equivalent to
				that of ACAOM, and that is recognized for that purpose by the substantially
				equivalent governmental entity in that foreign country. The educational
				institutions shall meet the curricular requirements of ACAOM.
(c) The documents substantiating
				that the U.S. trained applicant has met the specified requirements shall be
				submitted as follows:
(i) The educational
				program or governmental agency from which the applicant received the
				certificate or diploma shall send an official copy of the applicant's
				transcript directly to the Board in a sealed envelope.
(ii) By its submission of this transcript,
				the program or agency shall verify the applicant's satisfactory completion of
				the required ACAOM academic and clinical education and designate the completed
				courses and the hours of study completed in each subject.
(d) The documents substantiating that the
				Foreign trained applicant has met the specified requirements shall be submitted
				as follows:
(i) The educational program or
				governmental agency from which the applicant received the certificate or
				diploma shall send an official copy of the applicant's transcript directly to
				the Board in a sealed envelope;
(ii) By submission of this transcript, the
				program or agency shall verify the applicant's satisfactory completion of his
				or her clinical education and designate the completed courses and hours of
				study earned in each subject;
(iii)
				The applicant, at his or her own expense, shall submit an accurate English
				translation that interprets all documents submitted in a foreign language. Each
				translated document shall bear the affidavit of the translator certifying that
				he or she is competent in both the language of the document and the English
				language and that the translation is a true and complete translation of the
				foreign language original. Each translated document shall also bear the
				affidavit of the applicant, certifying that the translation is a true and
				complete translation of the original. Each affidavit shall be signed before a
				notary public; and
(iv) All foreign
				trained applicants, at his or her expense, shall submit their transcripts for
				evaluation by a foreign credential evaluation service to determine if the
				applicant's course work is equivalent to that required of an applicant from a
				three-year postgraduate acupuncture college accredited by the Accreditation
				Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM). This includes a
				subject-by-subject analysis that meets the curricular requirements of ACAOM in
				effect at the time of certification by the National Certification Commission
				for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) in the acupuncture written and
				point location examinations. The applicant may use a current member of the
				National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) or the American
				Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Offices (AACRAO);