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Complementary & Integrative Medicine, Pacific Rim CollegePacific Rim College is a government (PCTIA) accredited academic institution of complementary and integrative medicine located on Vancouver Island in beautiful Victoria, British Columbia. The college was founded to provide world-class education, modern research opportunities and premier clinical services in a variety of medical modalities including Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Phytotherapy, and Integrative Health.
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Workshops and EventsLonny S. Jarrett returns for a 2-day workshop in October. more>> Brandt Stickley returns for a 2-day Pulse Diagnosis workshop in November. more>> Jason Robertson to present a 2-day Channel Palpation and Diagnosis workshop in February. more>> Neil Gumenick returns for a 2-day Five Element Acupuncture workshop in Spring 2011. more>> Continuing Education in natural medicines. more>> New and NoteworthyJuly 10 - Fall Ayurvedic Marmatherapy schedule announced. more>> July 10 - Fall 2010 Course Schedule announced. more>> June 10 - Fall Community Herbalist Program schedule announced. more>> March 10 - Receive unlimited Acupuncture and Herbal treatments for $1.10/day. more>> June 09 - PRC offers condensed study option for Dual Diplomas in Acupuncture and Phytotherapy. more>> March 09 - Douglas Magazine names PRC one of "10 to Watch" amongst Victoria's businesses. Employment Opportunities Faculty positions at PRC:
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Gillian Marsollier received her Masters of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture in British Columbia and then successfully passed the provincial registration exam in 2001. She has practiced in Vancouver, BC, St. John's, NL, and Dartmouth, NS. Gillian has been a primary instructor for the 3-year Acupuncture Program in St. John's, NL, through the
CompuCollege and served as Program Director for the Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick CompuCollege Acupuncture programs. Her practice specialties include
Acupuncture, Chinese Herbology, Iridology and Facial Rejuvenation Acupuncture. 
Carmen Bedard-Gautrais, raised in both France and Canada, received her Bachelor's in Human Ecology while on full scholarship at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. Inspired to learn more about various ways cultures define health, she studied with a Curandera (traditional herbal doctor) in the Sierra Juarez in Mexico and then returned to Maine to finish pre-medical science prerequisites. She then studied with the School for International Training in East Africa and focused on Health and Development in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. After completing the intensive program, and working in a progressive HIV clinic in Uganda, she remained in East Africa and lived in a rural village off the southern coast of Kenya. Again she was exposed to the local medicinal practices and plants and wrote a journal that became her thesis for College of the Atlantic. Now studying in the School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at PRC, Carmen intends to complete a Master's degree in Physiotherapy at University of British Columbia. She hopes to work in a hospital setting integrating both eastern and western modalities in her practice. 
Having recently completed his studies at PRC, William Akehurst practices TCM Acupuncture in the Koster Wellness Centre, in the Comox Valley. During his studies, William moved abroad to China for 4 years where he completed a 1-year internship at the Dalian Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. While at the Dalian Hospital of TCM William spent time in the departments of Neurology, Dermatology, Massage, and Acupuncture. Therapies were aimed at helping stroke patients regain lost functions and treating back, spinal, and neurological disorders. William also completed an internship at the Anton Jayasuriya Memorial Clinic, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Jayasuriya Memorial Clinic is a non-profit clinic that provides treatment free of charge for the local population. During this internship William had experience in treating Parkinson's Disease. These experiences abroad have helped to expand William's vision and grasp of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture.
In The Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine, he continues the message that Oriental Medicine is not merely a technique, but an art that draws near when its core begins to resonate with the heart and spirit of the approaching student. He invokes respect for the ancient source of the medicine, including the Five Element lineage of his teacher J. R. Worsley, and correlates them to more recent philosophical trends favoured by modern TCM. This work must be read as the autobiography of a master practitioner who shows us his roots, his growth process, and the amalgamation of Chinese Medicine with everything he is, thinks, and knows-all in the spirit of inspiring us to do the same.Clinical Practice of Chinese Medicine is available for only $114.95.
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