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March 17, 2004

For More Information Contact: Rebecca Wilkowski, Phone: (800) 729-0941

Pacific College Opens Two New Clinics to the San Diego Public

In an effort to offer better healthcare to the San Diego community, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine will open additional clinics in its spring semester.

The first clinic will involve students in the college’s Doctoral in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) program, and will begin its first clinic shift on Friday, May 7. The doctoral clinic will offer an integrative approach with the supervision of a biomedicine practitioner, a licensed acupuncturist with experience in integrative medicine, and a licensed acupuncturist with experience in the Chinese classical texts and diagnoses.

Because the doctoral clinic will be using advanced equipment and will provide each patient with an experienced group of practitioners for every treatment, Jensen estimates that the clinic will charge $60 per treatment. While the cost of this clinic will be slightly higher than Pacific College’s master’s clinic, Jensen notes that it is still less than the cost of a private practitioner.

Pacific College’s second clinic is designed to both widen Pacific’s masters degree students’ range of clinic experience and to make acupuncture more accessible to the community. The community clinic will conduct treatments in a group setting and will focus on specific disorders, such as back pain, headache and asthma. Students will conduct abbreviated 20-minute treatment protocols rather than the full one-hour treatments provided by the college’s regular community clinic, which will allow students to learn to quickly and accurately assess the needs of the patient to begin treatment in minutes.

Set to begin in June 2004, the group community clinic will be available to local businesses, employees of local companies, and those who have few health resources available to them. Since the treatments are abbreviated, Jensen said that the cost of this clinic will be significantly less than the college’s other two clinics – approximately $15 per treatment.
For more information about Pacific College’s new clinics, please call (800) 729-0941.

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