The Neijing Nature-Based Medicine: Theory and Foundations One-Year Training Program (Formerly known as Neijing Studies: Theoretical and Clinical Foundations) has been taught and continually refined for over fifteen years. In the course, a variety of teaching approaches are used to capture the best aspects of online learning with in-person traditional mentorship and text-based training. The entire course consists of one year of online learning experience with fourteen days of in-person clinical teaching divided into two clinical retreats.

Developed in collaboration with experts in online medical education, the online lecture series consists of four academic quarters with ten learning modules in each quarter. Each academic quarters covers a a different topic.

• The first quarter introduces the basic principles and terms of Chinese medicine by studying the Neijing descriptions of nature and the cosmos.
• The second quarter introduces basic clinical principles, including Neijing models of anatomy and physiology.
• In the third quarter, basic clinical principles are introduced, such as Neijing needle techniques and diagnostic approaches.
• In the fourth quarter, special topics are discussed such as the treatment of emotional diseases and guest-host pathogens and the special concerns of practicing medicine in the time of climate change.