MIdwest College Of Oriental Medicine's Online Review Report Card

If you're a patient you might be better off finding community acupuncture elsewhere but this place can work for you if you want cheap ish acupuncture from acupuncture students who might not be good yet. If you are a student, there are better schools but this one is good for if you need a schedule you can plan work around (I haven't had a weekday class yet but clinic is on weekdays and you can go two shifts on one day a week) or if you want the admin to basically not care/communicate much here you go. I don't think I've ever been at a school less communicative/competent in admin as this, it's basically on the student to get in touch more often than other schools like for clinic hours. They probably teach basic tcm and needling ok. And honestly, tcm school prepares you to be able to needle and to take boards. Continuing education and learning other chinese medical systems besides tcm seem to be more effective but you need tcm for licensure. Tcm has enough basic principles right though so it's a long memorization thing that's helpful to learn all the points and herbs for use with other medical theories like shang han lun. Basically different schools of thought treat certain diseases more effectively and so you can get different results from different practitioners because they're using different treatment theories. It's the same in any medicine, get the diagnosis right and treat right Daryl can be mean but he's not bad if you know how to not take things personally. I always thought of it as like "if you practice anything you will have difficult patients/clients" so Daryl to me is like a way to toughen people up if they're oversensitive. I understand why people dislike him if they're not used to dispassionate people, but he is upfront about it. when i met him he did say some people don't like the way he is but we're welcome to be the same way to him. Not usually my style though. I personally haven't experienced him as terrible but I also don't know the details of what other people experienced. I did like the teaching better at pacific. I think needling teaching is difficult and it's nice to have nicer people doing it but Daryl does teach location in a very interesting way with feeling for dips in the skin and such as well as looking for anatomical landmarks. He sometimes acts as though some things should be as obvious to you as they are to him, which makes me think "come on, that's ridiculous" but I get over it. Maybe it's effective for remembering his advice on point location 😆

Daryl Abused my son don't go to this school. The clinical directors and Dean ignore you and keep charging you. We had to get a lawyer. Go to pacific

Stay away! Or go to the Wisconsin campus. Darrel the main instructor is a psychopath, tired of seeing him abusing fellow students.

After years of wasting my time at RUSH hospital and hearing, "Your labs are normal." despite feeling chronically ill, I am finally seeing improvements in my health. This place has changed my health and given me my life back. I speak as a patient from their community clinic, not as a student.

For some reason I didn't find the college faculty list on the MCOM website. I think it is highly important to know who will be your teachers and what level of medical degree they have.

Awful school, all they care about is financial aid and how they can take all of it from you. The students learn nothing, it’s a bunch of slides with multiple choice.. barely hands on . They also check people as attended just so they can get the financial aid. Also they lie about why you can’t attend if you out them. Specifically the Wisconsin witch that was in charge of the first online experience during covid. She is awful and had no compassion.

Love the treatments… they’ve always help me even with really bad accidents injuring my back…

My pain specialist suggested this place. Its relaxing and clea and really helps me with my spine pain. I've been going here off and on for years. I've always been treated well by students and instructors.

Appointments are $35 (unless you're ex-military or work for the City.) Appointments can last ALL afternoon. I always leave there more relaxed, but then contend with rush hour traffic to get home. There are "Community Acupuncture" places that cost the same or less and it won't take the entire afternoon. So, the jury's still out on whether this is such a great deal.

Awful school and an utter disrespect of the Medicine. If you truly want to get an education in Chinese Medicine or receive a through treatment with supervisors that really care and students that know what they are doing, go to Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Better school, better teachers, better curriculum. Wasted 18 months worth of time and GI Bill money at the Racine campus before I got fed up and left for PCOM- Chicago. Its amazing they still manage to maintain their accreditation, and have not been audited by the Board of Ed, the IRS, and Health Department, its that bad...and don't even get me started about the A-hole Darrel that's still there bulling and intimidating students at the Evanston campus. The entire staff is about 10yrs past retirement and the ones who aren't have no business teaching finger paint let alone TCM.