Occupation Atlastraditional chinese medicine therapist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/80a2aba7-ef7d-46ef-a8ec-15ff6131c0f1
traditional chinese medicine therapist
Traditional Chinese medicine therapists use alternative medicine approaches to cure illnesses in all its forms. They also use various therapies such as the use of herbal medicines, acupuncture, massages and dietary therapies, to increase the general health of the patient and to prevent a disease from occurring.
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Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
ISRInvestigative · Social · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative5.89
- S Social5.73
- R Realistic4.53
- C Conventional3.25
- E Enterprising1.98
- A Artistic1.81
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Naturopathic Physicians (29-1299.01): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (23)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- advise on healthy lifestyles
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply massage therapy
- biomedicine
- counsel healthcare users on medicines
- develop therapeutic relationships
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow-up on healthcare users' treatment
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- identify customer's needs
- listen actively
- maintain work area cleanliness
- monitor patient's health condition
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment
- observe healthcare users
- pathologies treated by acupuncture
- pathology
- phytotherapy
- promote mental health
- refer healthcare users
- traditional Chinese medicine
Optional (15)
- acupuncture methods
- address side effects of menopause
- apply acupuncture
- auriculotherapy
- carry out preventative internal medicine interventions
- complementary and alternative medicine
- composition of diets
- develop long-term treatment course for disorders in the glandular system
- educate on the prevention of illness
- general medicine
- pharmacology
- provide health education
- relaxation techniques
- select acupuncture points
- sterilization techniques
O*NET equivalents
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