WFAS International TCM Convention- Global Tour on Acupuncture Style- Malaysia

THE CONVENTION

This WFAS International TCM Convention is organised by WFAS and co-hosted by Malaysian Chinese Physicians’ Organisation, Sarawak state government and Federal government agencies. It will be held at Pullman Kuching five star hotel in Sarawak, Malaysia from 30th April to 2nd May 2012. This academic convention will invite world class experts and scholars to discuss about the topics regarding acupuncture, orthopedic, cancer and TCM education. The top 10 features where the fellow participants in TCM world should not miss out from:

The Government of Malaysia has affirmed the efficacy of TCM by setting up nine (9) TCM units at major government hospitals, including three (3) herbal oncology unit for cancer treatment;
Malaysia has successfully hosted “WFAS 2006 Malaysia International Symposium of Acupuncture” which organized by WFAS in 2006, with more than thousand participants attended to the symposium;
Malaysian government welcomes and approves qualified foreign TCM practitioners to practice Chinese medicine in Malaysia;
The Ministry of Health Malaysia has recognized the Bachelor’s Degree of Clinical TCM from five TCM universities in Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Tianjin;
TCM in private higher education has more than half century history in Malaysia, it has nurtures a large number of TCM professionals. In order to standardize the education system of TCM, with the support from government, currently there are five private higher education institutions introduced TCM course, Management and Science University (MSU) is one of them. This university is rather unique which offer diploma and undergraduate courses. Malaysian Government has signed the education memorandum with P.R. China Government for mutual recognition of degrees from both countries. Other Commonwealth countries also recognize the degree of TCM in our country;

There are around 20,000 TCM pharmacies, 7,000 TCM clinics, and more than 70 TCM organizations nationwide, International Traditional Physicians Academy Malaysia (ITPAM) is one of them;
Chinese medicine has a long history in Malaysia, it is widely disseminated, more than 70% of the national population using traditional medicine, especially TCM;
Malaysia is famous with its tropical rainforest, which contains more than 20,000 types of valuable medicinal plants for research. Malaysia has 28 ethnic groups, each of them have their own traditional medicine which are ready to be share with people around the world;
Malaysia has most Chinese, with most complete and prevalent Chinese education, Mandarin has been widely used in the country;
Mandarin and English is commonly use among the three major ethic groups in Malaysia, this helps to ease the communication among tourists.

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The Host City - Kuching

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The objectives of Sarawak state government and this convention are:

To promote the prosperity and development of acupuncture academic in the new century;
To enhance the pervasiveness of Chinese Medicine service in Malaysia;
To promote the academic exchange between International Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture with Malaysian Chinese Medicine;
To present Sarawak, Malaysia as the leisure tourism attraction with international convention centre to the world;
To understand the great effort of Sarawak in protecting the apes and promoting environmental awareness.