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  ATCM Membership Categories

ATCM have three different types of members for the purpose of practice, and honour.

Practice Members: Ordinary Members; Associate Members; Overseas Members
Practice Under Supervision Members: Student Members
Honorary Members: Fellow Members; Honorary Members


All Members of The Association are bound by the Association's Code of Professional Conduct and Code of Practice and must hold a university, college or other equal recognized professional qualification in Chinese medicine. The different categories of qualifications are designated on appropriately worded certificates issued by the Association.

All members who are currently practising TCM must be covered by professional and public liability insurance for TCM practice and this requirement is compulsory. ATCM has a Professional Block Insurance Scheme with Balens Specialist Insurance Consultants, which covers professional indemnity (malpractice), public liability and product liability.

For the purpose of insurance, ATCM is an Introducer Appointed Representative of Balens Limited, Bridge House, Portland Road, Malvern, WR14 2JR, who are authorised and regulated by The Financial Conduct Authority.



Practicing Members

Ordinary Member - Full Member (FM)
If a member's registration number prefixed with "FM", that indicate that this member is qualified to practice Chinese acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine and Tuina - Chinese therapeutic massage.

Ordinary Member -Category I (CA)
If a member's registration number prefixed with "CA", this indicate that this member is qualified to practise Chinese acupuncture and Tuina - Chinese therapeutic massage.

Ordinary Member -Category II (CB)
If a member's registration number prefixed with "CB", that means that this member is qualified to practise Chinese acupuncture only.

Ordinary Member -Category III (CC)
If a member's registration number prefixed with "CC", that means that this member is qualified to practise Chinese acupuncture, Tuina - Chinese therapeutic massage and Chinese patent herbal medicine.

Ordinary Member -Category IV (CD)
If a member's registration number prefixed with "CD", that means that this member is qualified to practise Chinese herbal medicine.

All Ordinary Members have the right of votes

Associate Members
Associate Members must have received training in one or more aspects (such as tuina - Chinese therapeutic massage, cupping) of TCM to a standard acceptable to the Council of the Association.

Overseas Members
Members who practice outside United Kingdom.

Practice under Supervision Members

Student Members
Student members are students of TCM. Student member is entitled to practice TCM under the supervision from accredited training institutes.

Associate Members and Student Members have no right of vote.

Honorary Members

Honorary Members:

Dr Xiaoping Zhai (Honoured on 2004)
Dr Xiao-Ping Zhai is the founder of The Zhai Clinic and is a specialist in reproductive medicine. She graduated in China and is qualified in both Western and Chinese medicine. She draws on both disciplines to treat patients in the most appropriate way.

She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Association
of traditional Chinese medicine and Acupuncture UK and a member of the British Fertility Society. Dr Zhai is committed to promoting further research into the role of TCM in reproductive medicine and her work has attracted widespread journalistic interest. She contributes to professional journals and has been featured on radio, television and in national newspapers and magazines. She was one of the founders of ATCM.
 
Dr Bing Chung Chan (Honoured on 2006)
Dr Chan graduated from Guangzhou University of TCM at 1966 and qualified as a doctor of Chinese medicine since then. He practised Chinese medicine in Hong Kong until 1986; then he moved to the UK and practising in London since 1987. Dr Chan is one of the founders of ATCM and Fellow member of ATCM. He served as council members as the Treasurer for 12 years. He had been a member of programme development committee at Middlesex University.



Fellow Members:
The Fellow of ATCM is set up for praising and confirming members who devoted remarkable contributions to ATCM. More details of Fellow members can be found on Rules for the Fellow of ATCM.

Kun Shan BU 卜昆山   Engin CAN 张恩勤
Bing Chung CHAN 陈炳忠   Min CHANG 常珉
Wei Xiong CHEN 陈伟雄   Ming Zhao CHENG 程铭钊
Song Shan CHU 朱松山   Xiao Lan DENG 邓小兰
Shu Jun DUAN 段姝均   Guang Xi FAN 范光熙
Qing Hao FAN 范庆浩   Ze Xin GUO 郭泽新
Yu HAN 韩煜   Xuan HE 何绚
Dan JIANG 江丹   Song Xuan KE 柯松轩
Wen Qing LI 李文卿   Yong Zhi LI 李永芝
Ke Zheng LIANG 梁克政   Da Rong LIU 刘大荣
Hui An LIU 刘会安   Qiu Yan LIU 刘秋燕
Xia LIU 刘霞   Xiao Ming LIU 刘晓明
Xin LU 鹿馨   Fan Yi MENG 孟凡毅
Hui NIE 聂卉   Li Yi QI 戚丽宜
Hui Jun SHEN 沈惠军   Wen Rui SU 苏文瑞
Shu Lan TANG 汤淑兰   Tie Jun TANG 唐铁军
Jia Rui WANG 王家瑞   Tian Jun WANG 王天俊
Wei WANG 王微   Yan Jing WANG 王燕京
Dun Xu WU 吴敦序   Ji Dong WU 吴继东
Jun Hong XIA 夏均宏   Davia XIU 修运强
Ying XU 徐盈   Yun Qiu XU 许云秋
Biao YANG 杨彪   Qin Jian YANG 杨勤建
Li Ren YUAN 袁立人   Xiao Ping ZHAI 翟小萍
Chao ZHANG 张超   Dan Feng ZHANG 张丹凤
Guo Wen ZHAO 赵国文   Kai Cun ZHAO 赵凯存
Li Qin ZHAO 赵丽琴   Ping Ping ZHAO 赵平平
Bai Fang ZHU 祝柏芳   Yi ZHU 朱毅
Zhi Qing ZHU 朱志强      

Overseas Members
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