Oriental Medicine Education

Personally I think the best is whatever school you have the best feeling about with regards to the faculty (ideally developing a personal connection with at least one or two before you choose) and/or whichever school is in a town where you have professional practitioner(s) you would really like to apprentice under. The rest (i.e. certifications, qigong, etc.) are really things that you will be more or less drawn to later and you can deal with that by taking other classes, studying on your own and/or with other professionals, or doing it as CEU&#39s after you get out of school. In other words, I would recommend that you choose the school based on people and their qualifications and your personal feeling and interactions with them not on any curriculum issues - those are somewhat irrelevant in the scheme of things. The exception would be being drawn to something very unique like Japanese Acupuncture - in which case only one school that I know of (NESA) has a full program in addition to the TCM track and others have varying degrees of focus on these techniques with many having none. Knowing this ahead of time is often rare however and you can easily pick up these techniques later through CEU&#39s - or even outside of other schools with local practitioners.