To become an acupuncturist or acupuncture and Eastern medicine practitioner, an applicant must have training in acupuncture or Eastern medicine sciences consisting of a minimum of seventy-five quarter credits or fifty semester or trimester credits. These credits must include, but not be limited to, the following subjects of acupuncture/Eastern medicine:
(1) Fundamental principles;
(2) Diagnosis;
(3) Pathology;
(4) Therapeutics;
(5) Meridians/vessels and points; and
(6) Techniques, including electro-acupuncture.
[Statutory Authority: RCW
18.06.160, chapter
18.06 RCW, 2019 c 308, 2020 c 229 and 2020 c 76. WSR 21-09-008, § 246-803-220, filed 4/8/21, effective 5/9/21. Statutory Authority: Chapter
18.06 RCW and 2010 c 286. WSR 11-17-105, § 246-803-220, filed 8/22/11, effective 9/22/11.]