Mind-Body Medicine (MBM) is a new field as an academic and educational system. There is no such a accrediting body to evaluate and accredit MBM education institutions and programs. MBM education is different from conventional medical education. It is also different from conventional psychology education, and different from commonly existing alternative medical schools, naturopathic medical schools, traditional Chinese medicine or oriental medicine schools. These schools have their fields defined in the tradition, but MBM is an integrative fields; some parts of it reflect the psychological science's perspectives, and some parts will include oriental medicine principles, and some parts are spiritual healing practices. MBM education curriculum should not be as simple as just putting all these fields classes together and teach the students in the way as they are taught in their original fields. The true integration and merging must be needed to create the wonder and inspirational depth of MBM science and healing arts curriculum and education system (principles, standards, procedures, methods, etc.) for future practitioners and existing practitioners to learn and practice; such most important creative integration work based on the fundamental principles of MBM science need an independent team or organization get involved to help develop, share, evaluate, improve, and then accredit.

For these reasons, AAMBM established an independent accreditation system. We provides accreditation service for the organizations or institutions that provide education or training programs in the field of Mind-Body Medicine (MBM) and voluntarily want to be accredited to demonstrate, manage and improve the quality of their programs, and to accept the public acceptance to their services.

AAMBM Accreditation & Certification Commission (AAC) is formed from commissioners who are the top level of outstanding doctors, practitioners, therapists, professors and scientists with degrees of PhD, PsyD, MD, ND, and EdD in the field of Mind-Body Medicine. For detailed information about AAC, visit the page at About AAC at AAMBM.

Why Accredited at AAMBM & Your Benefits

The requests for the modern and future demands of MBM healthcare services are dramatically increasing. The number of schools, educational institutions, training classes, degree programs in the field of MBM is in a rapidly increasing tendency. During such a rapid development process of MBM education, research and practices, AAMBMU established an Accreditation System for MBM schools and education institutions to voluntarily join the efforts of consulting, improving and accrediting their services. The purposes for this Accreditation are:

1	To encourage, enhance, improve and manage the education development and quality control;
2	To ensure quality student learning benefits;
3	To help develop core MBM education system with creative and comprehensive curriculums;
4	To help MBM institutions and training providers create MBM-suitable education principles, procedures, guidelines, methodology that help students better learning ability, understanding and interest specifically suitable for MBM education; MBM should not be taught and learned in the same way as conventional medical science.
5	To help schools and training providers operate professionally and safely;
6	To enhance creditability, popularization and professionalism of MBM holistic healthcare;
7	To help MBM schools and education programs receive as many as possible students without worry and confusion about the quality and future career development;
8	To conventionalize MBM education, research and practices.

Accreditation Principles, Standards, Methods

AAMBM AAC professionally and officially established details-oriented principles, standards, procedures, and methods to evaluate and accredit programs and institutions in the field of Mind-Body Medicine, to ensure the quality, meaningfulness, usefulness, professionalism and depth of the education, training or certificate programs. AAMBM evaluates compliance with the established standards and recognize the organizations or programs which demonstrate their compliance, and serve as a quality provider for the MBM academic degrees or certification programs.

As mentioned in the sections of About Accreditation and WhyMBM, WhyAAMBM and as well as What MBM Is, MBM program and institution accreditation's principles, standards, procedures and methods are not completely the same way as other conventional education accrediting bodies do.

Beside trying to match the conventional education standards requirements as much as we can, such as instructors qualifications, degree, formats of documentation, curriculum courses and units numbers, ... such parameters in the measurable forms, AAMBM accreditation practice especially pays attentions to how the teaching contents, focuses, integrations, teaching methods, instructors' creativity and dept of understanding about MBM and its teaching arts requirements are.

These factors as mentioned above are reflected through out the entire process of accreditation starting the education provider's self learning, curriculum developing, self evaluation, application preparation and submission, materials reviews, AAC internal meeting, visit or conference arrangement and performance, discussions and suggestions, improvements, until the final accreditation decision.

Deferent from conventional accreditation, these procedures sometimes also involve the instructors effects, especially AAMBM encourages MBM instructors to develop their own courses, write their won course description, syllabus, student evaluation standards and methods, get students involved discussing the course content, teaching protocol, learning experience and practice experiences.

Accreditation Procedures, Letter of Intent and Applications

1	Send a Letter Of Intent - notify your organization has an intention to submit an accreditation application to AAMBM
2	Upon the Letter Of Intent received, AAMBM will send the institution self-learning documents and fee schedule to help get started.
3	Since the Letter Of Intent received, at least 3 months self-learning, developing based on the information of AAMBM web site and the self-learning materials sent from AAMBM.
4	Send a letter to notify AAMBM that you have completed self-learning and developing process.
5	AAMBM will send you an self-evaluation report form to fill in.
6	Within one month the self-evaluation report should be sent back to AAMBM;
7	AAMBM AAC commissioners will review the self-evaluation report. One internal meeting or more will be arranged to establish initial agreement about an overall impression on the institution and programs, and as well as about the future steps to take.
8	Formal application submitted by the appliant if self-evaluation report passed by the Commissioners.
9	Commissioners meeting to decide initial visit and conference; and send notice to the applicant about the schedule of initial visit; The notice will be sent within 3 months, but not earlier than 2 months.
10	Initial visit and conference.
11	From this point, based on each case, it may need to send improvement suggestions from AAMBM AAC to the applicant; this may repeat multiple times until the final decision made.
12	The final decision and Accreditation issued if passed by the commissioners at AAMBM.

To send a Letter Of Intent, please go to Contact Us and send through the web form.