Academic Insights
Academic Advisors consider this part-time
What is anything less intense than the model curriculum
The year was PCOM established
What was 1986
The Director of Asian Holistic Health
Who is Kiera Nagle
A co-requisite science course we offer online
What is Chemistry
The cost per credit for Nursing courses
What is $410/credit
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
The minimum credits that must be taken by a student requiring a student visa
What are 12 credits
The assessment a Massage applicant must take before interviewing, if they cannot provide proof of a sufficient GPA
What is the Wonderlic Exam
Would require an Acupuncture student to be placed in our PCO program
What is not having previously completed 9 or more bioscience credits
The minimum recommended Duolingo English Test Score
What is 50, or, to be confident, 70.
The minimum GPA requirements for our programs:
What are 2.0 for AOS and 2.75 for all other programs
3 of the 6 bodies that accredit and approve our college and programs:
What are WASC, ACAOM, NY State, AOBTA, ACEN, AHNCC
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
The hourly rate for courses taken with financial credit
What is $5/hr
The full name of the body that endorses our Nursing programs
What is the AHNCC – American Holistic Nursing Credentialing Corporation
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
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
The 2 most popular specialty electives in our Associates program
What are Prenatal and Shiatsu
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.
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)
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
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
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
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.
i. Anatomy, Biology, Biophysics, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Forensic Sciences, Immunology, Zoology, Genetics, Botany
i. Physical Sciences or Psychological sciences like physics, astronomy, geology, metallurgy, chemistry, psychology, sociology, anthropology and economics.
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