Mind Map Business School

Advanced Diploma In Complementary Medicine (Remedial Therapies)

Course Code HLT50302
Fee Code FD
Duration (approx) 3155 hours
Course Structure:

Part A: Undertaken with ACS Distance Education (1st Year)

  1. Anatomy & Physiology I
  2. Nutrition I
  3. Nutrition II
  4. Nutrition III
  5. Biochemistry I
  6. Biochemistry II
  7. Biochemistry III
  8. Biology (Cell Biology)
  9. Introduction to Psychology
  10. Counselling Skills I

Course Fees displayed are for the Foundation Diploma only. Please contact the school for remaining course fee structure.

Part B: Undertaken with Health Schools Australia (Final 2 Years)

1. Practice Management
2. Remedial Massage
3. Disorder Profiles
4. Clinical Practice 2-4
5. Advanced Remedial Therapies
6. Aromatherapy
7. Advanced Anatomy & Physiology
8. Pathophysiology & Sympatology
9. Ethics & Jurisprudence
10. Occupational Health & Safety 2
11. Chemistry
12. Reflexology
13. Sports Therapies
14. Senior First Aid Certificate
15. 200 Seminar Hours Plus 150 Clinical Hours

What you should be able to do once you complete the course

  • Contribute to effective workplace relationships.
  • Develop professional expertise.
  • Manage a practice.
  • Communicate effectively with clients/patients.
  • Make referrals to other health care professionals when appropriate.
  • Apply advanced first aid (O/S).
  • Apply basic first aid.
  • Provide leadership in the health industry.
  • Manage the control of infection.
  • Comply with control of infection.
  • Manage work within a massage framework.
  • Provide the massage treatment.
  • Apply massage assessment framework.
  • Perform massage health assessment.
  • Develop a natural health assessment framework.
  • Apply elementary Patho physiological research to client assessment.
  • Apply basic aromatherapy treatments.
  • Provide advice on nutritional supplementation.
  • Assess clinical disorder profiles.
  • Analyse clinical tests to assist diagnosis.
  • Apply advanced remedial therapies.
  • Apply advanced aromatherapy treatments.
  • Provide basic counselling.
  • Apply human health sciences data to an assessment program.
  • Research human health issues and apply results to client assessment.

DEVELOP YOUR ABILITIES TO HEAL THROUGH TOUCH

One of the basic and primal human needs is for touch. Through touch we receive and give love, healing, acknowledgement, tenderness, energy and happiness. As our skin covers the entire body, it is the largest organ through which we perceive the world. The soothing, skillful hands of a well trained practitioner can thus reconnect us with the world, with sensations and feelings of love, care and happiness. 

The Advanced Diploma in Complementary Medicine with specialization Remedial Therapies develops your ability to become the skillfully trained practitioner that can heal patients, family or friends through massage, touching and relaxation. 

The Advanced Diploma in Western Herbal Medicine is offered in conjunction with Health Schools Australia. ACS offers up the Foundation Diploma which is equivalent to the first year of study. The final 2 years of the Advanced Diploma is conducted with Health Schools Australia and will be awarded by Health Schools Australia on completion.

Health Schools Australia is the leading training provider of complementary medicine courses. It is accredited by the Australian Traditional Medicine Society (A.T.M.S.), National Herbalist Association of Australia (N.H.A.A.), IARC and the Queensland Association of Massage Therapists.

This course is internationally accredited through I.A.R.C