Practice Medical Acupuncture
Become a leader in one of the fastest growing fields in health care.
Practice Medical Acupuncture
Become a leader in one of the fastest growing fields in health care.
Medical Acupuncture Training for Physicians
What is Integrated Structural Acupuncture?
Integrated Structural Acupuncture is a system of acupuncture that uses a point verification system, thus allowing the practitioner to verify the efficacy of their point selection, ensuring the optimal diagnosis and treatment. This system is effective for musculoskeletal, neurological and internal medical conditions. Treatment points are verified to demonstrate their immediate effect on patient symptoms and exam findings. In this way, both practitioner and patient actively participate in the healing process. The system also integrates modalities, such as nutrition, exercise and manual therapies, to ensure the most comprehensive treatment and best results for the patient.
An Integrated Structural Acupuncture Approach
New Format with Less Travel
This internationally acclaimed course trains physicians to practice a results-oriented, easy-to-learn style of medical acupuncture. This web-based course includes two streamed weekend webinars, and two live 4-day sessions of live hands-on practice in Nashua, New Hampshire, just north of Boston, MA, and only 25 minutes from the Manchester, NH airport. Nashua is known for its traditional New Hampshire heritage, combined with its progressive New England urban qualities and vitality. Nashua is the only city in America to be ranked #1 Best Place to Live by Money magazine – twice.
The course introduces a variety of practical acupuncture techniques that use palpation to diagnose and immediately verify the efficacy of treatments.
Web-based Portion Access of the Course begins October 5, 2026. The course runs through the end of June 2027 with continued access to archived material through the end of August 2027.
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Join us to deepen your understanding and refine your acupuncture practice!
Discover in-depth acupuncture knowledge and specialized techniques.
All of our skills workshops are open to graduates of the program. Some of these are excellent in a remote format, such as Facial Diagnosis. Others require live participation (Battlefield Acupuncture). Join us for a Refresh Weekend and add a Skills Workshop.
Learn all about our skills workshops and continuing education offerings!
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Course Founder & Director
Joseph F. Audette, M.A., M.D.
- Assistant Professor Part Time, Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Department of Spine, Physiatry and Pain Management at Atrius Health and Harvard Vanguard.
- Former Course Director of the International Structural Acupuncture Course for Physicians at Harvard Medical School.
- President of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture (AAMA).
- Recognized world expert in acupuncture and the use of acupuncture point verification methods.
- Leader in the use of acupuncture needle techniques for the treatment of acute and chronic pain.
- Renowned researcher in Acupuncture.
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Testimonials
I can’t imagine a better course for physicians seeking to practice medical acupuncture in a scientific, effective way.
Dr. Joseph Audette and Dr. Allison Bailey have gathered the best minds in acupuncture and comprehensive materials that bridge Traditional Chinese Medicine—including acupuncture, moxibustion, and cupping—with Western medical anatomy, physiology, and pathology in a clear, accessible format.
The hands-on training with passionate, experienced faculty was exceptional. Though I had studied another acupuncture system, AcuMed helped me reach a new level by emphasizing palpation-based treatment.
I now use medical acupuncture in my aesthetic plastic surgery practice to reduce pre-op anxiety and post-op nausea, as well as to treat migraines, carpal tunnel, hyperhidrosis, and more.
Lee Seng Khoo
Thank you for creating such a thoughtful and impactful course. The structure, content, and energy were beautifully organized and truly meaningful.
After PA school, I felt disillusioned—like something essential was missing. This course completely shifted that perspective. It opened my eyes to a new way of thinking about healing and renewed my sense of purpose.
The guest lecturers were fantastic, and the instructors-in-training were generous and supportive. I’m deeply grateful to have been part of this experience.
Dana Yizhaky
I have been doing acupuncture for free in my cardiology practice, on employees and patients, carefully selected. It is a little scary how much people both like it, and are helped by it. I am rather astonished.
Dervilla M. McCannM.D., F.A.C.C.
This course is extremely well taught with a strong commitment to covering the scientific research but an amazing skill set for physicians to use early in the course for treating patients successfully. I now use acupuncture regularly in my practice. There are no side effects and the hands on healing is the most rewarding thing I have every done in my medical career.
K. Kroessler, M.D.
After taking the course, I am now spending half of my working clinical time applying acupuncture to my patients. They usually get better in the first acupuncture session!
Anonymous
The course is well organized, with excellent instructors and this style of acupuncture can be easily mastered by busy, western medicine trained physicians. The course has changed my mentality towards patient care. Now, I “think acupuncture at first” for all my patients: it works like magic and they love it.
Xiangrong Shao, M.D., F.A.C.P.
My overall experience was superb. I have incorporated acupuncture into my practice as part of a balanced approach. I believe the health and wellbeing of my current and future Patients will forever be changed for the better largely due to the high yield results obtained with this palpation based style of acupuncture. What I consider special about the Harvard course is the commitment and dedication to excellence demonstrated by the course teachers/instructors and the passion with which they share their vast knowledge. By far the best course I have attended, bar none!
A. Ikhisemojie, M.D.
The impressive team of approachable professionals are there to coach you through the process in a non-intimidating manner. With guest speakers from around the world, and hands on patient volunteers, this truly will be a unique academic adventure that will change your practice. I have taken other acupuncture courses and can say this is the one which is geared to the busy physician which desires to leave with a set of skills that can be Confidently implemented within their practice.
B. Glasser, M.D.
I really enjoy the course. Palpable evaluation and immediate feedback, clear cut method to approach each problem and neuro-anatomical and physiological correlation for most of the concepts. Most of the students there probably don’t fully appreciate this yet, not having struggled for several years to make sense of five element theory.
Gary Monroe, M.D.
I have to tell you how grateful I am to you for taking the time to speak with me about this course last summer. Everything you said has turned out to be totally true – the course is BRILLIANT; it encompasses the aspects of TCM that I was hoping to learn and I am THRILLED with the concept of Hara diagnosis. I am so excited to know that I can translate this comprehensive knowledge into a successful holistic practice, helping others find the “magic” of the meridians.
THANK YOU! I could not be more pleased with the course. You all do a fantastic job. I am so looking forward to the in-person sessions this Spring.
Suzanne
Allison and Joe:
First and foremost, I want to thank you so very much for such an incredible opportunity that continues to be honestly more wonderful every day. The AcuMed course came at a time when I was struggling with medicine overall and considering other options, and I have found so much enjoyment from applying it to day-to-day practice, as well as to myself. The way you presented the course was excellent at providing a foundation for basic skills, with an overview of the general landscape and options for further growth. You both have great personalities for teaching, and I just felt so welcomed to learn in a new and often very challenging way.
Liam Lunstrum
I first encountered acupuncture in medical school, approaching it skeptically. It wasn’t until I saw hospitalized patients with hyperemesis gravidarum recover enough for discharge after a simple acupuncture treatment that I recognized its impact. Later, during my wife’s pregnancy, an acupuncturist on a cruise provided her effective relief from severe nausea.
Busy with residency and fellowship, I set aside acupuncture until teaching brought it back into focus. Dual appointments in Surgery and Neurological Sciences at the University of Vermont reintroduced me to the field through a colleague’s groundbreaking research, leading me to consider how many of my patients could benefit from this approach.
I joined AcuMed in fall 2023. The program is intensive but manageable, with a well-organized curriculum and excellent faculty who make complex content digestible. The lectures, including sessions on scientific advancements, improved my approach to patients and bridged traditional anatomy with acupuncture principles. Practical instruction also prepares students for clinical application. The in-person and live-online sessions reinforce learning, making sure we stay on track.
The program’s impact has been so positive that I’ve encouraged two colleagues to join, confident they will gain equally valuable insights to benefit their patients and students.
Philip M. Skidd, MD