Doctor in Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine (DAHM)

This institution offers a dual-degree Master’s and Professional Doctorate option, upon completing your admission requirements for both Master’s and Doctorate programs, you enroll in both programs in the beginning. You will have signed an enrollment agreement for the Master’s program and an enrollment agreement for the Doctorate program. For students who intend to earn their Masters prior to, or together with, the Doctorate, the program will execute separate enrollment agreements for each degree program simultaneously at the date of initial enrollment.

Transfer into Professional Doctorate Program from a Master’s program at the same institution or transfer from Masters and/or Professional Doctorate program at another institution. You may start in the Masters programs at AMU and decide later to also enroll in the Professional Doctorate program. While some courses shared by the Masters and Professional Doctorate programs may be the same, they cannot be considered toward Professional Doctorate graduation requirements until you have officially enrolled. Once an enrollment agreement is executed, the previous Masters classes may be transferred into the Professional Doctorate program in accordance with transfer credit limits. You start in the Masters or Professional Doctorate at Institution A and then transfer to Institution B. Once an enrollment agreement is executed for each program, Institution B may evaluate your credits from Institution A to determine transferability. The transfer credit limits apply. To avoid repetition of curricular content and additional tuition expense, decisions to transfer are best made within the first 1-2 academic years of study. If a student transfers into a Professional Doctorate program from Master’s program, at the same or from a different institution, they may receive transfer credit for up to 50% of the total accepting Professional Doctorate program credit requirements. They must complete at least 75% of the accepting program’s clinical training requirements. If a Masters student has completed greater than 50% of the Professional Doctorate program, the recommended approach to avoid repetition of curricular content is completion of the Master’s degree and subsequent enrollment in a Professional Doctorate program with a completion track for Master’s graduates. (see Option 3)

Complete a Master’s program and then enroll in a Professional Doctorate completion track. The admissions for the doctoral completion track program requires graduation with a master degree in acupuncture with a Chinese herbal medicine specialization from an ACAHM accredited/pre-accredited program or institution. In considering the acceptance of education and training obtained in foreign countries, credits earned at a foreign educational institution must be validated to be equivalent to a master’s degree by a recognized educational credentials evaluation service. A comprehensive transcript analysis that demonstrates that all applicable master’s-level coursework completed is equivalent to doctoral requirements in terms of content, rigor, and credit hour requirements will be conducted. Credits earned more than five (5) years prior to admission may only be accepted for transfer credit by an institution after validating that the student has retained the content knowledge and competencies of the respective course(s) for which transfer credits are being assessed. Acceptance to a doctoral degree completion track is furthered conditioned upon satisfactory completion of ACAHM’s masters’ core curriculum requirements acupuncture with a Chinese herbal medicine specialization typically evidenced by official transcripts of master degree in acupuncture with a Chinese herbal medicine specialization issued by an ACAHM accredited/pre-accredited program or institution. Subject to relevant state regulations and licensing agency rules, applicants may receive transfer credit for up to 50% of the total program credit requirements. Of that 50%, no more than 25% of the program clinical training requirements may be accepted as transfer credit.