Medical Qigong Doctor
Prerequisite: - MQP, MQT, MQM2000 hour Program
A gateway to great understanding and great surrender. In Medical Qigong true mastery comes from surrender to Heaven, Earth, and the Divine. In this space you are complete and become a clear conduit for aiding the healing others.
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Medical Qigong Doctor (MQD)
This is a 2000 hour certification program, which its foundation consists of an additional 200 hours of direct in person instruction with Dr. Shannon over five 5-day intensive seminars which are held three times per year. This is a two-year program.
Program Overview:
This is a 2,000-hour MQD certification program. The MQD program requires the completion of 1,000 hours beyond the MQM certification, totaling 2,000 hours. This level is the most advanced and final stage in formal Medical Qigong training.
MQD training ideally expresses the highest standard of medical qigong knowledge. MQD students should humbly be the best of the best. They should express virtuous life principles that radiate into all their relationships and into their service to society.
Students will develop an advanced understanding of the body's energetic relationship to the physical structure, including mental and emotional disorders, as well as spiritual instigation's attributed to disease formation.
MQD seminars offered will strengthen all aspects of one’s clinical and personal practice regardless of one’s clinical or cultivational emphasis.
Access to online course material will be discontinued 90 days past the last program course attended. However, if students continue enrollment in their program or enroll in the next level of training, then they will have continued access to previous online course material. For students who discontinue their enrollment but want continued access to online course material Click here.
Students will be evaluated on course material by the faculty and given oral, written and practical examinations.
MQD training ideally expresses the highest standard of medical qigong knowledge. MQD students should humbly be the best of the best. They should express virtuous life principles that radiate into all their relationships and into their service to society.
Students will develop an advanced understanding of the body's energetic relationship to the physical structure, including mental and emotional disorders, as well as spiritual instigation's attributed to disease formation.
MQD seminars offered will strengthen all aspects of one’s clinical and personal practice regardless of one’s clinical or cultivational emphasis.
Access to online course material will be discontinued 90 days past the last program course attended. However, if students continue enrollment in their program or enroll in the next level of training, then they will have continued access to previous online course material. For students who discontinue their enrollment but want continued access to online course material Click here.
Students will be evaluated on course material by the faculty and given oral, written and practical examinations.
Overview of Seminars and Requirements:
MQD Additional Requirements
Each program has Additional Requirements in addition to the required Seminars. Additional Requirements for the MQD program are below.
Practicum Hours MQP - 428 hours
528 Hours of Practicum Hours must be logged and verified before the DMQ Certificate can be awarded. These are hours in addition to the Practicum hours required for the MQP, MQT, and MQM program.
Learning to become a Medical Qigong practitioner requires practice. Every time you work with a client, the academic and theoretical knowledge gained in the Medical Qigong courses is put into practical application. Each Medical Qigong Program requires a certain number of Practicum hours. These are documented hours working with clients. Once students have completed “P2 Introduction to Medical Qigong Assessment and Protocols”, they are expected to begin practicing the General Protocol. As students gain experience and attend more advanced courses, their knowledge of Medical Qigong will increase, as will their abilities to assess and work with more challenging cases.
Practicum hours cannot not include hours spent working on fellow students within class, or hours spent during P5, T5, or M5 Internships. They can include hours spent working on fellow students after regular class hours. An important part of learning to work with clients, however, is learning to adjust and learn from new situations, new people, and new issues. For this reason, the student is strongly encouraged to work with a wide range of people while going through the Program. The student is expected to keep documentation on clients, including client histories, protocols used, and self-care exercises. Students are responsible for finding their own volunteers or clients with whom they will log their Practicum hours.
Practicum hours must be logged on the IMQC Practicum Log form and signed by the practice clients. Once the required number of hours has been logged, the completed Practicum Logs should be turned into the Administrative Assistant. Program certificates will not be issued until Practicum hours are submitted. Ideally, Practicum hours are turned in before the final seminar is completed, however students have up to 12 months after the end of the program to submit Practicum logs. Students who are not able to turn in their Practicum hours within 12 months must file for an extension.
If you are in a country that forbids the use of a visible sign in sheet for privacy reasons, you must still use a Practicum Log. List your clients by initials instead of names. Have them initial instead of sign.
These hours are in addition to hours already submitted for the MQP, MQT, and MMQ programs.
Advanced Education - 200 hours
The MQD student is required to take 100 hours of additional education outside of IMQC classtime. These can be seminars, lectures, online courses. They should directly relate to your dissertation topic.
Specifics will be discussed in class.
Specifics will be discussed in class.
Group Study - 150 hours
These are hours spent discussing Medical Qigong topics with your fellow students outside of class. Hours should be logged with Date, time and topic.
Ideally these should be topics relevant to your dissertation.
Specifics will be discussed in class.
Specifics will be discussed in class.
Dissertation Review - 30 hours
These are hours spent reviewing Dissertation with other students. They should be logged with date and time.
Specifics will be discussed in class
Application Process
Students who wish to qualify for this program must be graduates the Medical Qigong Master (MQM) certification program OR concurrently enrolled through the IMQC and have the permission of Dr. Shannon.
If you have not trained DIRECTLY with Dr. Shannon, you MUST attend the MQD Prep Seminar.
In our experience, there is a great variety of abilities and experience of instructors who are graduates within the IIMQ lineage. Unfortunately, this means that many students may not be prepared as they may have thought for doctoral studies.
If you have not trained DIRECTLY with Dr. Shannon, you MUST attend the MQD Prep Seminar.
In our experience, there is a great variety of abilities and experience of instructors who are graduates within the IIMQ lineage. Unfortunately, this means that many students may not be prepared as they may have thought for doctoral studies.
This is not to impugn anyone’s prior training or teacher, but to emphasize that there are always refinements to be made and then built upon. Much is taught, however, only some is learned. This is always the case.
Additionally, we will share refinements and details of postures and techniques that have been made to the former IIMQ’s curriculum that were not generalized to other instructors.
- There is a non-refundable $300 Deposit for students applying to any of the Programs. Once your application is received and processed, our office will send you options for paying this fee, and information on submitting required documentation. This deposit is deducted from the price of your initial seminar and is not a separate fee.
- Our class sizes are limited, so that we can provide quality experiential instruction. If a Program is full, you will be placed on the waiting list and notified if an opening occurs.
- Once the Program Application has been submitted, the student may Register for the initial Seminar of that Program.
What previous MQD students said...
There are people who are masters of their craft, but cannot communicate it. There are people who communicate well, but cannot teach. Rarely do you find someone with Dr. Shannon's level of mastery of Medical Qigong, both energetically and intellectually, who is also a Master Teacher.
He assists the student in learning at all levels of understanding - spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. After a long search and finally coming to Bernard's class, I realized that anything less than this level of training is not training at all.
He assists the student in learning at all levels of understanding - spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. After a long search and finally coming to Bernard's class, I realized that anything less than this level of training is not training at all.
A. S., New York
I searched several years for the right IIMQ teacher and studied under three different ones in the process. Of them all, the experience and ability Dr. Shannon brings to the classroom is by far the most thorough and enriching. I can finally say my search is over.
Jordan Boone
During the MMQ, we were exposed to prescriptive exercises and meditations and we thought we ‘knew’ them but the way you taught us the Neigong behind the exercises has made a tremendous difference. For example, the Neigong you added to “Pulling down the Heavens” connected me with Heaven, as well as, grounded and rooted me in the Earth so solidly that when I started my practice I immediately felt Qi streaming through me.
Dr. Woody Swartz, MMQ, DOM
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