12/04/2026
A reflection from one of our 2024 Jing Fang Nanjing internship students 🌿✨
Dr. Martin Fitzgerald Chinese Medicine Practitioner, researcher and lecturer.
“You can complete thousands of hours of theoretical Chinese medicine learning through courses, workshops, and online videos that will increase your knowledge greatly. But it doesn’t necessarily make you a good practitioner. Western teaching of Chinese medicine has become highly conceptual, theoretical, and frankly, confusing. Jing Fang is rooted in practical application, and good practice expressed through simple treatments and effective clinical results. This can only be truly learned through face-to-face practice and real-life observation.
The Nanjing trip is a rare once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for those who wish to go beyond conceptualising, reading, and thinking about Chinese medicine to another level, by spending time with doctors who have seen more than 100 patients a day for many decades. If you wish to advance beyond being a lifelong professional student, and advancing your practical professional skills and clinical results, this trip is one of the rare opportunities that we have to achieve that.
My internship at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine in the summer of 2024 was one of the most meaningful experiences of my professional life. It felt like a rare, perhaps once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience Chinese medicine in its true clinical setting.
Having travelled to China every year, for over 20 years to study in clinics and hospitals, I am very familiar with the limitations of many study trips, busy environments, limited teaching, and largely observational learning. Nanjing was completely different. In a few weeks, I felt I learned more than I had in the last 10 years of previous visits.
This was due to the openness and generosity of Professor Huang Huang, Dr. Salustino Wong, and his team, with clinicians who practise Jing Fang at a very high level every day. They genuinely value international students and are deeply committed to teaching. The presence of an excellent translator, who is also a Jing Fang practitioner, made the learning clear, engaging, and highly practical.
If you are serious about becoming a better practitioner, and not just another lifelong theoretical student of Chinese medicine, I would wholeheartedly recommend this Nanjing internship. It is truly something special, you will remember for the rest of your life. “
We’re grateful to share this journey with such dedicated students 🙏📜
And to continue building a bridge between classical knowledge and modern clinical practice 🌏
