Academic Insights
General Knowledge
Massage
Academic Knowledge
Nursing and then Some
100

Academic Advisors consider this part-time

What is anything less intense than the model curriculum

100

The year was PCOM established

What was 1986

100

The Director of Asian Holistic Health

Who is Kiera Nagle

100

A co-requisite science course we offer online

What is Chemistry

100

The cost per credit for Nursing courses

What is $410/credit


200

The minimum credits that must be taken to be eligible for part-time and full-time financial aid options, respectively.

What are 6 and 12 credits


200

The minimum credits that must be taken by a student requiring a student visa

What are 12 credits


200

The assessment a Massage applicant must take before interviewing, if they cannot provide proof of a sufficient GPA

What is the Wonderlic Exam


200

Would require an Acupuncture student to be placed in our PCO program

What is not having previously completed 9 or more bioscience credits

200

The minimum recommended Duolingo English Test Score

What is 50, or, to be confident, 70.

300

The minimum GPA requirements for our programs:

What are 2.0 for AOS and 2.75 for all other programs

300

3 of the 6 bodies that accredit and approve our college and programs:

What are WASC, ACAOM, NY State, AOBTA, ACEN, AHNCC


300

4 of the 7 Specialty Electives offered in our Associates program

What are Shiatsu, Prenatal, Hot Stone & Hydrotherapy, Advanced Thai, Ayurvedic Oil, Advanced Tui Na, and Neuromuscular/Sports


300

The hourly rate for courses taken with financial credit

What is $5/hr


300

The full name of the body that endorses our Nursing programs

What is the AHNCC – American Holistic Nursing Credentialing Corporation


400

The maximum length of attendance for our MSTOM, MSAC and AOS programs, respectively

What is 8 years, 6 years, 4 years OR about 200% of the model curriculum’s length

400

The number of courses that transfer from our massage program into our acupuncture

What is 16, 8 with full transfer credit and 8 as courses that can be retaken with financial credit given

400

The 2 most popular specialty electives in our Associates program


What are Prenatal and Shiatsu


400

Highly recommended (essentially required) to complete within the 1st 2 terms, if a student enters through PCO

What is the remaining bioscience credits needed, totaling to 9 biosciences from their prior studies and studies here.

400

Aside from an English test, the one other way a non-native-English speaker can prove English proficiency:

What is having earned 60 college credits from an institution recognized by the USDE (not necessarily a degree)


500

The maximum length of attendance for our MSTOM, MSAC and AOS programs, respectively, if the student needs financial aid throughout their entire time here?

What is 6 years, 5 years, 3 years OR about 150% of the model curriculum’s length

500

The number of courses left to take if you take the Acupuncture program first and then complete the massage program after or take both simultaneously

What is 13

500

2 courses you must take as co-requisites or pre-requisites to any hands-on courses, In the Associates program

What are Anatomy and Public Safety & Counseling


500

3 example courses that could be considered a bioscience (don’t have to be in PCOM curriculum) and one example of a science course that wouldn’t fall into that category.


  1. What are:

 i.      Anatomy, Biology, Biophysics, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Forensic Sciences, Immunology, Zoology, Genetics, Botany

  1. And not:

 i.   Physical Sciences or Psychological sciences like physics, astronomy, geology, metallurgy, chemistry, psychology, sociology, anthropology and economics.

500

Names of at least 1 online elective and 1 onsite elective offered through the BSN program.

What are

i.      Online:  Survey of Biochem Principles, Medical Spanish, Cultural Paradigms, Philosophical Foundations of Chinese Medicine (Information Literacy is a gen ed now, and not an elective, I believe)

ii.     Onsite:  Tui Na, Pathology East/West, Fundamental of Chinese Medicine, Taiji/Qigong, Emotional and Spiritual Healing

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