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Mr. Frieburg

 

Some of your statements in your e-note about NOMAA and AOMNC are somewhat

misleading.

 

1. NOMAA, the new accrediting agency you cited has not accredited any OM

doctoral programs, and it is not used in any state, or approved by the US

Department of Education as is, for example, ACAOM. According to a recent

article in Acupuncture Today, ACAOM is considering developing standards for

an entry-level doctorate through a public review and comment process.

 

2. Far from conducting a public process, NOMAA appears to be hiding its

standards and procedures. According to the NOMAA President’s interview

published in Acupuncture Today, NOMAA already “adopted” its standards.

Nobody but a select few (primarily a few of the leaders from the CA

associations, and none from their general membership) had been given any

opportunity to comment on their proposed content as they were developed, and

the standards themselves have still not be made public! Sources tell me

that when the NOMAA President recently gave a presentation to the California

Acupuncture Board about this agency in Spring 03, he initially passed out

packets to the acupuncture Board members which included NOMAA's standards

and procedures, and then changed his mind and took back these documents when

he discovered that if he provided them to the Board then any member of the

public could request and obtain a copy. Nor has NOMAA shares its standards

with the Florida Acupuncture Board when presentations were supposedly given

to the Board about the agency. Why should the profession accept a new

accrediting agency which hides its standards and dosn’t allow those who

might be affected by them to comment on them as they are developed???

 

3. I noticed that you claim on the AOMNC web site that AOMNC has " the

largest state membership in Florida " and you further state " ...now with

CAOMA and our joint affiliation with lobbyist - Marcus & Associates, we

represent the largest group of 'qualified acupuncture licensees' ever

assembled in the United States. " How can you make these claims with a

straight face when AOMNC is a for profit corporation, not a non-profit

membership association where the membership have any say as to the policies

and positions of this organization, or even who serves on its Board ofs? Anyone who wants to review certain sections of AOMNC web site,

must register to do so, and those who do are misleadingly called " members. "

Your so-called " members " have no say in the policy positions taken by your

for profit organization, which are determined and controlled exclusively by

an unelected and unaccountable Board of Directors composed of yourself and

Mr. Sontag. Your statements that AOMNC has the " largest state membership

in Florida " and " represent the largest groups of qualified acupuncture

licensees ever assembled in the US " is clearly misleading and inaccurate.

 

I state this to correct misinformation.

 

John

 

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