Chinese Acupuncture eLearning

Foundation of Needling (FoN)

This eLearning course has been created by Chinese Acupuncture specialist, Dr Fanyi Meng

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Key eLearning outcomes

25 CEU PDA points

Course requirements

Level: Designed for all healthcare practitioners looking to progress their career and learn fundamental knowledge of acupuncture needling

All applicants are required to:

  • have up to date medical malpractice insurance
  • be current members of a recognised healthcare board


Professionals allied to medicine may be considered.

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This eLearning course has been designed to offer participants a strong foundational knowledge and understanding of acupuncture and needling in a clinical setting.

You will explore different needling techniques and learn the gold standards of clinical practice.

The eCourse is packed with audio, visual and interactive scenarios preparing you for the follow-on practical training and is designed by industry-specialist, Fanyi Meng (Dr. CM).

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This Course Covers

  1. Brief history of acupuncture
  2. Learn the nature and purpose of needling
  3. Performing acupuncture safely: guidelines
  4. 4 Models for planning a procedure
  5. Understand the different schools of needling
  6. Techniques for assessing female reproductive pathologies
    • TCM
    • Dry needling
    • Trigger point needling
    • Neuro-stimulation needling
    • Electro-stimulation needling
    • Beauty needling
  1. Setting up a suitable work environment
  2. Precautions
  3. The DeQi sensation explained
  4. Post procedure care
  5. Managing risk and expectation
  6. Interactive scenarios
  7. Assessment

Meet the course creator

Dr. Fanyi Meng CMD graduated in Beijing Chinese Medicine University in 1983, and moved on to qualify as a Western medical doctor (MD) and Chinese medicine doctor (CMD).

Dr. Fanyi Meng
Dr. TCM MBAcC

Dr. Fanyi Meng

Fanyi Meng CMD graduated in Beijing Chinese Medicine University in 1983, and moved on to qualify as a Western medical doctor (MD) and Chinese medicine doctor (CMD). Fanyi gained his research degree as a Medical Master (China’s equivalent of a PhD in medicine) in Beijing in 1990. He carried out research projects in China and Japan on Pulse and Tongue diagnosis, and verifying clinical effectiveness of Chinese medicine in conditions of circulatory system. He was a senior academic during the 1990s at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, the only central government funded TCM university.

Fanyi came to the UK to teach Chinese medicine at Middlesex University in late 1997. In 2004, he moved to the University of Lincoln as the Course Leader of the Acupuncture programme. He is a leading author in Chinese medicine, with five books, a further nine chapters in books and more than twenty research papers in the last twenty years.

He is on the panel of several TCM organisations, and external examiners of University of Wales, Derby, Salford, amongst others, in professional consultations and advisory roles. Improving general health and maintaining a healthy appearance, is a personal interest in his acupuncture practice, and traditional approaches are his preferred way of conducting facial acupuncture.