Autumn Institute of Health is a registered private career college in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, teaching acupuncture and East Asian medicine.
Autumn Institute of Health is a registered Private Career College in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is located at 91 Sackville Drive, Suite 206, Lower Sackville, NS, in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq People. The institute was founded with a vision to transmit the teachings of acupuncture and East Asian medicine with sincerity, integrity and humility.
AIH aims to provide world-class acupuncture training. Autumn is a place where kindness, community, and healing are both taught and practised through ancient traditions of medicine and cultivation.
The Autumn Institute of Health offers a Diploma of Acupuncture, along with Professional Development and Community Classes. AIH emphasizes palpation and hands-on skills in diagnosis and treatment. Students start clinical training in week one, and practical classes and clinics will never exceed a 1:20 teacher-to-student ratio.
The Autumn Teaching Clinic is part of AIH, where students begin observing treatments by senior students and the clinical supervisor in their first week. Listed facilities include the Autumn Professional Clinic, Autumn Teaching Clinic, on-site parking, and treatment rooms. Henry Claflin, R.Ac, is listed as Director, Instructor, and Clinical Supervisor.
AIH offers Standard Entry, Distance Entry (first term online), and Health Care Provider Entry routes.
AIH Director Henry Claflin was on the committee that designed the education accreditation standards for CARB-TCMPA. There is currently no formal or official accreditation process for acupuncture education programs in Canada.