Educational Objectives
Institutional
Educational Objectives
The following are the principal educational objectives in support of the College's Mission:
• To provide students with the knowledge, skills, and professionalism to become highly qualified practitioners in select health care fields.
• To enable students to be fully capable of obtaining employment in their health care field.
• To prepare students to be capable of passing the licensure and/or certification exams required to become a licensed or certified practitioner in the state of New York.
• To develop in students a sense of ethical responsibility in the therapist-client dynamic and with fellow practitioners.
• To provide students with an appreciation for continued learning throughout their professional careers.
Successful completion does not guarantee passage of licensing exams or licensure.
Educational Opportunities
The programs offered by New York College of Health Professions provide the highest standards of education and training in massage therapy, acupuncture, and Chinese herbal medicine. The College is breaking new ground and creating a bridge between Traditional Chinese Medicine with western medicine by creating an alliance with Bellevue Hospital, a major medical institution in the New York City metropolitan area.
Why Holistic Health Care
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), formerly the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, is a component of the National Institutes of Health and serves as the federal government's lead agency for scientific research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Founded in 1999, the NCCIH uses rigorous scientific investigation to define the usefulness and safety of CAM interventions and to provide the public with research-based information to guide healthcare decision making.
As defined by the NCCIH, CAM includes a large and diverse group of interventions, practices, and disciplines — including those taught at New York College of Health Professions such as massage therapy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, yoga, Qi Gong, and Tai Chi — which are used to improve health and well-being and in the treatment of illness or symptoms such as chronic pain or stress.
Analysis by the NCCIH and the Centers for Disease Control of research data from a National Health Interview Survey on the use of complementary modalities found that approximately 59 million Americans spend up to $39.2 billion a year out-of-pocket on CAM, representing 9.2% of total out-of-pocket expenditures in health care. There is great interest across many health care disciplines regarding the potential application of CAM approaches to a variety of challenging health problems and to health promotion, in large part based on emerging evidence from research.
For more information about the NCCIH and its research, visit nccih.nih.gov.
Content sourced from the 2023–2026 NYCHP Catalog (updated March 2026).