Telephone: ( 626 ) 288-1199? Fax: ( 626 ) 288-4199 Email: sotcm@sotcm.com
Marketing/Promotional Letter
Dear
Licensed Acupuncturists:
You probably know that some States /
Cities request licensed acupuncturists to complete certain hours of continuing
education courses every year or every two years to renew their license. The
California Acupuncture Board requests 50 hours of continuing education courses
every two years to renew license. The National Certification Commission for
Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) requires diplomates
to demonstrate a minimum of 60 PDA (Professional Development Activity) points
attained during the four years prior to recertification.
Our school offers California Acupuncture Board
approved continuing education courses. Or courses reach to NCCAOM’s
requirements, It is time to complete the continuing
education courses. Please fill
out the attached (Please
Download the Attachment) registration
form and fax it back to (626) 288-4199 or call us
at (626) 288-1199 to schedule the courses for you and
your colleagues.
For
certified acupuncturists by NCCAOM, if you are unable to attend our live
seminar courses, you may complete publication of academic papers in our journal
Sciences of Traditional Chinese Medicine to reach to NCCAOM’s
requirements to gain some of continuing education scores, please read following
letter in details.
Live seminar course location:
Dr. Kexin Bao, School Director
Continuing Education Requirements
The Board believes that careful oversight of its continuing education
requirements is important in implementing its mission and goals. Continuing
education is a means for practitioners to stay abreast of current knowledge,
practices and regulations -- thereby providing better services to consumers.
The license renewal fee is $325 every two (2) years. In order to continue
to practice acupuncture, you must submit the renewal fee with the application
mailed to you before the expiration date. IT IS ILLEGAL TO PRACTICE WITH AN
EXPIRED LICENSE. Licensees found to be practicing with an expired license are
subject to disciplinary action. Additionally, a delinquent fee of $25.00 will
be added to your renewal fee if not paid by the expiration date.
All acupuncturists renewing their license will be required to list all
board-approved continuing education courses completed on their renewal
application and sign under penalty of perjury. The required number of
board-approved continuing education hours that must be completed in a 2-year
renewal period cannot be less than fifty (50) hours. In addition, no more than
five (5) hours of continuing education may be spent on issues unrelated to
clinical matters or the actual provision of health care to patients. Each
acupuncturist is required to retain records of all continuing education courses
attended for a minimum of four (4) years. If an initial license has been issued
for less than 2 years, below is the number of board-approved continuing
education hours that must be handed in based on the number of months the
license was issued:
|
Period of Initial Licensure |
Required CE Hours |
|
13 to 16 months |
35 |
|
17 to 20 months |
40 |
|
21 to 23 months |
45 |
If a licensee is not currently practicing in
A license (active or inactive) which is not renewed within three (3) years
of its expiration date WILL NOT BE RENEWED. A new license will not be issued
until the licensee has retaken the examination and paid all necessary fees.
Section
30 of the Business and Professions Code and Public Law 94-455 (42 USCA 405
(c) (2) (c)) authorize collection of your Social Security Number (SSN). Your
SSN will be used exclusively for tax enforcement purposes, and/or for purposes
of compliance with any judgment or order for family support. If you fail to
disclose your SSN, your application for renewal license will not be processed
AND you will be reported to the Franchise Tax Board. Please make sure your SSN
stated below is accurate; please make changes only it if is wrong or if the
area is blank.
Dear Members of NCCAOM:
I am pleased to inform
you that our journal, Sciences of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is now
broadening the scope in soliciting professional articles. You can take
advantage of this opportunity to raise your score of continuing education by
publishing your paper in our journal.
NCCAOM requires diplomates to demonstrate a minimum of 60 PDA (Professional
Development Activity) points attained during the four years prior to
recertification. Among the 60 PDA points, a maximum of 30 PDA points may be
awarded for publications. Diplomates may be awarded
30 PDA points for authoring a book that is over 300 pages in length, 15 PDA
points for primary authorship in a peer-reviewed journal, or 10 points for each
article. Dates, titles, publishers?ISBN numbers, abstracts and executive
summaries should be documented by submitting a photocopy of the title pages of
books. Copies of articles must be submitted, as well as the table of contents
page that shows the date published. (Please see recertification handbook. The
current recertification handbook and application are available at www.nccaom.org.)
The following is a notice
for soliciting contributions. If you have any questions please email to us at sotcm@sotcm.com.
Thank you very much!
Kexin Bao,
Ph.D., L.Ac., Editor-in-Chief
The
Sciences of Traditional Chinese Medicine Notice Soliciting Contributions
1.
The Sciences Of Traditional Chinese Medicine (SOTCM)
is the first international journal that emphasizes the popularity of
traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and therapeutic massage
knowledge. We publish two editions, the General and Professional
Editions. The General Edition has been published since January 1995 while
the Professional Edition has been published since August 1996. SOTCM primarily
disseminates this knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine for the purpose of
improving the health all people.
This
journal has a registered ISSN and is sponsored by American Institute of
Traditional Medicine.
Presently,
the General Edition is published monthly while the Professional Edition is
published non-periodically.
2.
This journal welcomes contributions that are related to traditional Chinese
medicine, acupuncture, therapeutic massage, and traditional Chinese medicine
integrated with Western medicine.? Contributions can
come in the form of popular scientific medical knowledge, clinical experiences,
research achievements, medical anecdotes, medical information, and informal
essays. A manuscript with 1000 to 2000 words is appropriate, but it should not
exceed 3000 words. For the general edition, small size articles are especially
welcome; for the professional edition, new achievements, new doctrines, new
hypotheses, new outlooks, new experiences, new methods, new means, and new
developments in traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine
integrated with Western medicine at the international level are welcome. The
author is responsible for his/her own writings.
For
the requirements for the Chinese edition, please see the Notice Soliciting
Contributions in Chinese.
3.
The following technical rules should be followed strictly in the preparation of
text:
(a)
Manuscripts should be typewritten with Microsoft Word (or consistent with MS
Word) format and emailed to sotcm@sotcm.com
as an attachment. You must indicate “academic paper contribution?or “popular scientific paper contribution?in the Subject
section of the email.
During
the review of each manuscript, the reviewers have the authority to decide
whether the manuscript belongs to either the academic paper category or the
popular scientific paper category.
(b)
On the title page, you should include the full title, list of authors (with
academic degrees), institution, laboratory or clinic of origin, running title,
mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, as well as email address.
(c)
The beginning of the manuscript should include an abstract consisting of a
single paragraph of no more than 300 words. The abstract should be clear and concise.?You should also include a list of keywords (not
exceeding 7) along with the abstract.
(d)
References and citations within the manuscript should include the author's name
and year of publication; e.g. (Bengston and Krinsley, 2000; Chen et al., 1984; Chen et al., 1993). Such
references must be of published work that is directly pertinent. Furthermore,
references should be listed with all authors?names and
full titles in alphabetical order on a separate sheet at the end of the text.
Examples appropriate references:
Bengston,
W.F. and D. Krinsley. The
Effect of the "Laying on of Hands" on Transplanted Breast Cancer in
Mice. Journal of Scientific Exploration 14 (3),
353-364, 2000.
Chen, Z.L. and X.F. Zhou. The effects of acupuncture in 300 cases of acute lumbar sprain.
J. Tradit. Chin. Med. 4:93-95, 1984.
Chen, S.Y. and F. Li. Tonics and astringents. In: A
Clinical Guide to Chinese Herbs and Formulae, Churchill Livingston,
(e) You must type
footnotes and legends for illustrations in double-spaced format.?Footnotes
should be consecutively numbered in superscript throughout the text and should
be used as sparingly as possible.
(f)
To ensure clear reproduction of figures, figures should be clear, no larger
than 8?nbsp;?nbsp;11 inches
(22 ?nbsp;28 cm), and supplied in triplicate with special attention
to sharp focus and contrast. The figures also should be ready, in all respects,
for direct processing. Importantly, the lettering and symbols should be large
enough to be reproduced legibly after reduction. For each figure, mark the
names of the authors and the number of the figure, and indicate the orientation
of each.
(g)
Photographs of tables should be prepared in the same way as the figures are.
(h)
All of the terms used in submitted manuscripts must accord with the
International Acupuncture Nomenclature proposed by the WHO in 1991. Not
conforming to this standard nomenclature could delay the article’s publication.
When in doubt, write to the Sciences of Traditional Chinese Medicine for
further information. The editor reserves the right to alter non-standard
terminology in all manuscripts.
(i) All measurements must be in metric units. However,
English units should also be given parenthetically if the measurements were
originally done in English units.
4.
This journal has the right to refuse publishing, revise manuscripts,
investigate research processes and the person(s) involved, transfer the
contribution to other periodicals or academic meetings, allow other periodicals
to republish, and to republish as corpus by this journal.
5.
Once the manuscript is submitted to the editor, the author should wait at least
a half year before submitting the manuscript to another journal. If the author
does not receive any notice over a half year since the manuscript was submitted
to the editor, all manuscripts will not be returned, and the author may submit
the manuscript to other journals. Once the contribution is received, the
contribution becomes the property of this journal.
6.
Please indicate the author’s real name, position, academic title, degree,
employer, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, and email address.
During the first submission, please attach curriculum vitae.
7.
Publications for the general edition will not be charged, but publications for
the professional edition will be charged. There is a page charge of US$50 per
page to authors (any publication that is less than a page will still be charged
$50). Exceptionally numerous illustrations or elaborate tables will require
special arrangement with the publisher for sharing the cost of reproduction. Color
figures or plates will be accepted only at the author's expense for engraving,
printing and handling.
There
will be no payment for the writer's work. Once the article is published, the
issue in which the article was published and an acknowledgement letter will be
sent to author.
8.
High-level volunteer editors or members of editorial committees are wanted. If
you are interested to this gratuitous position, please email this journal for
an application form. Qualified scholar will be admitted.
9.
If you are interested in placing an advertisement in our journal, the unit
price is $4.00/square inch for inside pages; $5.00/square inch for inside front
page or inside back page; $8.00/square inch for first page, $6.00/square inch
for last page.
10.
Our company, American Institute of Traditional Medicine is a non-profit
organization that fully supports the development of TCM. Please make a
tax-deductible contribution in check, credit card, or cash to support this
non-profit organization. Our tax ID No. is #95-551980. Thank you very much for
your patronage to SOTCM.
11.
Our address is:
Sciences
Of Traditional Chinese Medicine
About the distance
learning
At
present time, our school has no distance learning program for acupuncturist.
Once we have established the program, we will announce here, please be patient
to wait for our good news.
For
more information about the continuing education courses, please contact the school. Add. : 2712
San Gabriel Boulevard, Rosemead, CA 91770 USA. Tel.:
626-288-1199. Fax: 626-288-4199. E-mai: sotcm@sotcm.com
About Professor Dr. Kexin Bao
Dr. Kexin Bao received his medical degree from the
In recent years, he is appointed as professor of many acupuncture
colleges. Dr. Bao was an assistant professor and an attending physician of
Acupunctology and T.C.M. in the Training Center of Acupunctology and T.C.M. in
the Medical School of Jinan University in
He has been an editor and writer of numerous texts and medical
papers, which have been published though out the world. His name and
outstanding medical achievements have been rated in the
He presently holds a professorship of T.C.M. in the
Add.:
Phone: 1-626-288-1199
Fax: 1-626 288-4199
Email:
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