Establishment of the California Oriental Medicine Practitioner Licensing System and the California Oriental Medicine Association
1975 marks the beginning of the history of Oriental medicine in California. At the time, as there was no legal oriental medicine system, Korean oriental medicine doctors, who were making a living in an uncertain state, neither illegal nor legal, took the lead and began lobbying together with Chinese and Japanese oriental medicine doctors to introduce an official oriental medicine licensing system. Through a long period of lobbying and legislation, then-CA Governor Jerry Brown signed the Oriental Medical Practitioners Bill (Senate Bill 86, Chapter 267, Statutes of 1975) and the Oriental Medical Practitioners Bill was passed and is now in effect.
contribution
We remember those who contributed day and night to the initiative of the California Oriental Medicine Doctor System.
1. Shin Sang-hyeok, Oriental Medical Doctor: He devoted himself to establishing the system and is the first president who established this association. He is also the first oriental medical doctor to receive CA Acu Board license number 1.
2. Dong-man Ji, Oriental medicine doctor: He is from Kachusa and was in charge of English communication, and dedicated himself to establishing institutional legislation.
3. Oriental medicine doctor Bongdal Kim: He devoted himself to establishing the system and established the Emperor's College of Oriental Medicine to begin training the next generation in earnest.
We would like to thank the first oriental medical doctors who devoted their efforts, time, and capital to introducing the oriental medicine system in difficult times and in a generation where everyone was trying only to make a living.
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