AACMA Newsletter - 24 January 2025
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24 January 2025
This Issue:
Happy New Year to All Our Members!
Hoping 2025 is a successful year professionally and personally. It is very pleasing to report that, AACMA has now achieved the highest membership numbers in its 52 years as the lead association representing Chinese medicine practitioners and the profession. Thank you to all our members for trusting us to represent you and we welcome all our new practitioner members and student members. Congratulations to our new graduate student members who have now joined us as practitioner members. AACMA is here to support you in every way to achieve a successful career in Chinese medicine.
Tzu Chi Foundation
A Buddhist Compassion and Relief Foundation founded by Dharma Master Cheng Yen in Taiwan in 1966 is a global charitable foundation that delivers free or low cost health care to the needy, refugees and homeless. Each year Tzu Chi has a forum and this year Brisbane hosts this global event. It’s a 3 day event with Chinese Medicine sessions on the afternoon of first day and a variety of dentistry sessions covering the majority of the program on the other days. Brisbane dentists have been providing low cost or free dental care in Brisbane for several years through the Tzu Chi Foundation which is why the conference program has more presentations for dental practitioners. Speakers from around the world will be presenting and AACMA members will be given a discounted registration for the event. Event Highlights:
Notable Speakers:
More details are available at https://brisbanetzuchi.org.au/2025-tima-australia-global-forum/ Tzu Chi has a centre in Salisbury, Brisbane where multimodality treatments are delivered. AACMA members can join this foundation and Brisbane based practitioners will be able to volunteer at the centre to provide acupuncture treatments. For many of our members, this may provide an opportunity to give back. This is a developing collaboration between Tzu Chi Foundation and AACMA with the future potential for AACMA practitioner members to be able work in the Tzu Chi Buddhist hospitals in Taiwan and Canada.
Additional Information (PDF Downloads):
Health and Allied Health practitioners detained while trying to perform their jobs.There is a global movement of health practitioners who are lobbying for the release of health workers who have been caught up in areas of conflict while doing their jobs providing medical aid. These health workers have faced the dreadful choice of balancing their own survival with remaining to take care of the ill and injured. With massive destruction of infrastructure and very little medical supplies, these health workers continue to provide the best care they can within a devastated healthcare system. Many practitioners have been killed and others detained while trying to provide whatever care they can for their patients. AACMA is an apolitical association that is standing up for our health practitioner colleagues around the world and urge the Australian Government to intervene to gain their release. Medical neutrality should be enforced in any war zone.
NDIS Update from the CMBA
AACMA received a letter from CMBA Chair Dr Danforn Lim about his meeting with the NDIA regarding the NDIS legislative changes that came into effect in October 2024. For the full letter please click here.
It’s on again!!! AACMAC 2025
Empowering clinical practice: Enhancing patient outcomes - that’s the theme for AACMAC 2025 which will be held 25-27 July at the Sofitel Brisbane. Focusing on the various branches of our medicine – acupuncture, herbs, Qi gong/Tai chi, dietetics, and body work, we have another stellar line up of international and national speakers who will present clinically relevant workshops and seminars that provide you with treatments, techniques, formulas, new ideas and information that you can take back to your clinic to improve your practice and patient outcomes. Important Points · Call for Abstracts - submissions due 28th February 2025. Download the abstract submission form, complete it and submit to events@acupuncture.org.au · Registrations - open late February with super early bird rates for in person and online · Discounted accommodation - 5 star luxury at best available rates for AACMAC delegates via our exclusive link · Keynote speakers - Jason Robertson and Felip Caudet confirmed Lots more to come so watch out for the announcements!
Jason Robertson
Dr. Jason D. Robertson is the co-author of Applied Channel Theory in Chinese Medicine (Eastland Press, 2008) with his teacher Professor Wang Ju-yi (王居易). Dr. Robertson has studied Chinese language for 25 years and Chinese medicine in Chengdu and Beijing. He currently maintains a private practice in Seattle, USA and is a full-time faculty member at the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine (www.sieam.edu). In 2013 he was recognised by the Beijing Administration of Chinese Medicine as an official apprentice of Professor Wang Juyi. In 2018, he completed doctoral research on clinical reasoning in East Asian medicine and traditional means of information transmission. Dr. Robertson has taught courses on channel theory and diagnosis around the world.
Felip Caudet
Felip Caudet has been in practice first as acupuncturist and after as physiotherapist since 1999 and specialises in Japanese moxibustion. He stopped needling practice to do only moxibustion in 2012. He studied with the masters Tetsuya Fukushima and Hideo Shinma (son of Master Fukaya). Currently, Felip is recognised as the fourth master in the line of transmission of Fukaya Style of Moxibustion due to his developments and contributions to the style. He also developed a revolutionary moxibustion method called Kinseikyu method (Balance Posture with Moxibustion). He has published several books in Spanish, some translated to other languages, on moxibustion and articles in international journals as the North American Journal of Oriental Medicine or Osaka Shinkyu Journal. Nowadays he combines his clinical activity in Spain with teaching around the world (Japan, Brazil, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, UK, Denmark, Polony, Portugal).
Defence Health’s Notice for Remedial Providers
Defence Health will be conducting a peer behavioural analysis of their remedial providers over the next twelve months, commencing on 1 January 2025. The decision to undertake this analysis stems from patterns observed in claims data, including instances of:
Defence Health sees it as an opportunity to learn more about the providers and acknowledge that each practice is different, so any findings will be met with sincere enquiry.
Additional Modalities Added to TUH
TUH updates cover on Extras from 1 January 2025 We are pleased to inform you that TUH Health Fund will be expanding our Extras cover to provide greater flexibility and support for our members. From 1 January 2025, we will:
This change reflects our commitment to supporting holistic health care options and providing greater access to valuable professional services for our members.
Endeavour: Diploma of Health Science (Chinese Remedial Massage) Qualification
Attention members, Bupa have recently approved the Diploma of Health Science (Chinese Remedial Massage) for provider recognition, CBHS and Australian Unity also do. Please note not all health funds recognise this course we are currently working with them to do so. If you have gained the Diploma of Health Science (Chinese Remedial Massage) qualification from Endeavour, please email certified copies of.
Please don’t hesitate to contact the membership team if you have any questions regarding the above on 07 3457 1800 or membership@acupuncture.org.au
Moving or Adding a New Clinic?Please contact our membership team with your new clinic details by email at aacma@acupuncture.org.au so they can apply to the health funds for new provider numbers.
Details required when Adding an Additional Clinic:
If you miss the above deadlines, please refer to the below: Reporting Cycle for Health Funds
Ceased practicing at a clinic, please provide the address and the ceased date so we can advise the health funds to remove your details. To check your workplace details or membership go to our website https://www.acupuncture.org.au/ then
If you have issues logging in or setting up a password, please don’t hesitate to contact the membership team 07 3457 1800 we are happy to assist you.
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