Where a traditional chinese medicine therapist can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a traditional chinese medicine therapist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Traditional Chinese medicine therapists use alternative medicine approaches to cure illnesses in all its forms. They also use various therapies such as the use of herbal medicines, acupuncture, massages and dietary therapies, to increase the general health of the patient and to prevent a disease from occurring.
Also known as TCM specialist, therapist in traditional chinese medicine, therapist in TCM, chinese medicine therapist, specialist in traditional chinese medicine, traditional chinese medicine practitioner, TCM practitioner, TCM therapist, practitioner of traditional chinese medicine.
Professionals 38 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: shiatsu practitioner, 63%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A traditional chinese medicine therapist needs 23 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- biomedicine natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- monitor patient's health condition information skills
- counsel healthcare users on medicines communication, collaboration and creativity
- pathologies treated by acupuncture health and welfare
- traditional Chinese medicine health and welfare
- monitor patients' progress related to treatment information skills
- observe healthcare users information skills
- advise on healthy lifestyles communication, collaboration and creativity
- follow-up on healthcare users' treatment communication, collaboration and creativity
- apply massage therapy assisting and caring
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a traditional chinese medicine therapist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- shiatsu practitioner 75% covered · difficulty 31.8
- acupuncturist 73% covered · difficulty 33.6
- aromatherapist 63% covered · difficulty 44.4
- herbal therapist 60% covered · difficulty 47
- sophrologist 56% covered · difficulty 50.6
- complementary therapist 49% covered · difficulty 56.8
- osteopath 39% covered · difficulty 65.9
- homeopath 38% covered · difficulty 66.5
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Traditional chinese medicine therapist is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a traditional chinese medicine therapist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.