Attendance and assessment
Flexible attendance
While we recommend students commit to attending for the full year, we offer flexible attendance where students attend and pay for the by the day, by the term, or by the year. A discounted price is given to students who pay for a year in advance.
The course is designed to be completed in two years, but students have the option of taking longer, if they require.
Please contact us if you’d like to discuss flexible learning.
Assessments and coursework
Over the course of the Jing Fang Qualification students are assessed by:
- Student Logbook
- Online quizzes
- Clinical case assessments
- Case submissions
Student Logbook
To assess competency, each student is required to complete the Student Logbook as well as compile a reference set of herbs, formulas and cases, including their own research. This may be done in whatever way is useful to you, and will be monitored during the course. Details of this are laid out in the Student Handbook, and you can discuss this with your supervisors at any time.
Logbook competencies include evidence of attendance at three external days on dispensary (in person), and phytochemistry and pharmacology (online).
Online Quizzes
Each online lecture is accompanied by a short online quiz, which helps both students and supervisors guage your understanding of the material that is being presented.
Clinical Case Assessments
Clinical cases from our supervisors are given to students throughout the year. Students are asked to analyse the case, giving a diagnosis, treatment principle, and herbal prescription. Twenty cases are given out throught the course, as students reach relevant points in the lectures.
Case Submissions
Students are required to submit cases from their own clinics over the duration of the course, for analysis and discussion during the tutorial sessions. A number of these cases are formally marked.
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Testimonials from patients, students and graduates.
I have been very lucky to meet Frances Turner and study the Jing Fang tradition you have shared all over the world. It’s a truly wonderful medicine, which I absolutely love to continue learning and practicing. So many have benefited from these teachings.
It has been the single most helpful thing I’ve done for my health – it’s been life changing.
It has been rewarding and challenging to use this medicine. Every patient is a teacher!
It is such a privilege to be studying the Jing Fang Apprenticeship with Frances Turner, and I cannot wait to incorporate this incredible system into my practice to help patients.
Jing fang has given me a way of understanding herbal medicine that is both profound and effective. For that I am eternally grateful!
Thank you for bringing Jing Fang into my life, it has done miracles for my health…I feel so privileged to have discovered this lineage.
It has been the most remarkable and fulfilling educational experience I have ever had.
The Jing Fang introductory lectures are extremely useful. The information is explained in a very clear and structured manner, with case studies that illustrate all the different formula patterns. The audio is a bonus. These lectures provide a very solid base that complement the practical side of the apprenticeship and help consolidate your learning.
Your depth of knowledge, as well as your warmth and willingness to share it, have made the last two years the most important and enjoyable of my career to date.
Frances does a wonderful job of teaching Jing Fang to us in England, online and in person. It has transformed my herbal practice into being more effective, with quicker results, and being more curative.
Dr Feng, you have turned my world upside-down with this wonderful Jing Fang system… reading your case histories is inspirational.
It has been the most remarkable and fulfilling educational experience I have ever had, because the learning is done through observing real patients and seeing how Frances diagnoses and treats them. Every week I’m there, I learn something new whether it is about herbs or formulas or syndromes. And being at the clinic is always hugely interesting. Doing Frances’s course and learning the Jing Fang pattern diagnosis has changed the way I treat my own patients as an acupuncturist.
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