Whether you are a Licensed Acupuncturist, Medical Doctor Acupuncturist, or Chiropractor Acupuncturist, our goal is to offer ample resources for your development as a practitioner. 

Qualifications for Licensure

*note: NCAAOM is a professional organization; we are the state association for acupuncture and Oriental medicine, NOT the licensing entity for North Carolina.  That entity is the North Carolina Acupuncture Licensing Board (NCALB).  Their contact info is listed below.

In order to become a licensed acupuncturist in North Carolina, you must have received a bachelor's degree, attended an accredited acupuncture school, and then completed the following:

  1. Submit a completed application.
  2. Submit $100 application fee, and $500 licensure fee. 
  3. Submit proof of a score of not less than 70% on the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) acupuncture written & point location exams or a score of not less than 70% from any state utilizing the NCCAOM examination.
  4. Submit a certified copy, certified by the issuing institution, of a transcript including evidence of graduation from a three-year postgraduate acupuncture college, accredited by, or in candidacy status by, the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, or, if outside of the U. S., the California Acupuncture Committee.
  5. Submit proof of successful completion of the Clean Needle Technique course offered by the Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (CCAOM).
  6. With any document that is not in English in its original form, submit a translation of it into English by someone other than the applicant. Each translated document shall have affixed to it a notarized statement of the translator certifying that he or she is competent in both the language of the original document and English and that the translation is a true and complete translation of the foreign language original. The applicant shall assume the cost of any document necessary for a complete application.
  7. Submit all correspondence to:
    North Carolina Acupuncture Licensing Board
    Paola Ribadeneira, Executive Secretary
    PO Box 10686
    Raleigh, NC 27605
    Fax 919-833-5743   paola@recanc.com