NYCTCM Core Values & Mission Statement

NYCTCM's Mission Statement

The mission of the New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine is to prepare compassionate practitioners who are solidly grounded in the tradition of Chinese medicine, who are able to integrate this tradition within the Western health care system, and who have a spirit of innovation that enables them to adapt a 4000-year-old medicine to 21st-century needs.

New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (NYCTCM) brings these Core Values to the transmission of 4000 year-old healing arts.

Compassion

NYCTCM graduates will bring, in addition to knowledge of TCM theory and mastery of techniques necessary to apply that theory, the emotional qualities of empathy, respect and compassion to all their treatment sessions.

Tradition

NYCTCM graduates will have a thorough understanding of and deep respect for traditional Chinese principles of treatment, including their cultural and philosophical context. 

Integration

NYCTCM graduates will have a fundamental inderstanding of the Western Medical approach, and will be able to integrate their practice of TCM within the Western Healthcare system. system.

Innovation

NYCTCM graduates will have a spirit of innovation that enables them to adapt a 4000 year old medicine to 21st century needs.