continuing professIONAL development

Herbal Medicine CPD Courses

Explore flexible CPD courses in herbal and integrative medicine designed to deepen your knowledge, support your professional growth, and fit around your schedule.

These courses are for professional herbal register members only

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What is Continuing Professional Development?

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) helps healthcare professionals and practitioners build on their existing knowledge through focused, relevant learning.

ICTIM’s CPD courses cover a range of topics in herbal and integrative medicine, including nutrition, medicinal herbs, traditional medical systems, and clinically relevant therapeutic approaches. These courses are designed to help you strengthen your practice, expand your perspective, and continue learning in a flexible way.

Includes:
Flexible, self-paced online learning that fits around your schedule
Opportunities to build and reflect on your professional ePortfolio
Audio and written lecture content for deeper understanding
Practical knowledge you can apply in clinical or healthcare settings
A wide range of topics including nutrition, herbs, and integrative medicine
Expert-led teaching from experienced practitioners in the field
Focused study across culture & health, therapeutics, pathologies, and traditional systems
Certificate of completion upon finishing your course
Duration
Self-paced(varies by course)
Study Mode
Online / Workshops
Credentials
Certificate from ICTIM
Course Access
1 year from purchase
Start Date
Anytime
Fee
Varies by course

Designed to be flexible

With online learning materials at your disposal, you can study at your own pace as you progress through each module.

Learn from the Experts

Learn from the best minds, talents, and mentors in the industry.

Enhance your e-Portfolio

Document your journey of academic progress and professional knowledge in an ePortfolio of your ICTIM  programmes.

Certified Training

Set learning goals, pass online exams, and get certified from ICTIM to mark your professional development.

Stay Updated

ICTIM programmes are designed to constantly update your skills and knowledge on the latest in the field.

A Professionally Recognised Programme

ICTIM’s CPD offerings sit within its broader professional and educational framework in herbal and integrative medicine, supporting structured lifelong learning for practitioners and professionals.

Course Overview

ICTIM’s CPD courses cover a wide range of topics in herbal and integrative medicine, including nutrition, medicinal herbs, traditional medical systems, and clinically relevant therapeutic approaches.

Courses are grouped into four main areas: Culture & Health, General Therapeutics, Specific Pathologies, and Traditional Medical Systems. Each course is designed to support focused learning in a flexible format, allowing you to study at your own pace and deepen your professional understanding in the topics most relevant to your work.

Most courses include both audio and written content and are available for a fixed access period after purchase.

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How CPD can support your practice

Online learning at ICTIM is not a compromise — it is the model the institution was built on. Our programmes have been designed from the ground up for online and blended delivery, maintaining the same academic rigour and clinical standards expected at postgraduate level. Students from across Ireland and internationally have completed their clinical training without relocating or taking time away from work.

Expand your clinical perspective

Deepen your understanding of herbal and integrative medicine in ways that complement your existing work.

Strengthen professional development

Build focused knowledge in areas relevant to patient care, treatment approaches, and traditional medical systems.

Apply learning in practice

Choose topics that support real-world application in healthcare, advice, treatment, and professional reflection.

Explore new areas of practice

Use short-form learning to broaden your perspective or explore future directions in herbal and integrative medicine.

Not only did I enjoy the course and the challenges it posed, but the course gave me insight and knowledge into herbology that I can apply in my Chiropractic practice. It was very easy getting signed up and getting all the information needed. I appreciate the opportunity to grow with such a great organization.

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Dr. Sean E. McCaffrey D.C., I.H.S, L.D.H.S.
Internal Health Specialist

Browse CPD Courses

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Understand the Yin & Yang Theory and how it shaped traditional Chinese healing, offering a framework for balance, change, and health in practice.
Traditional Medical Systems
The Yin & Yang Theory
30 minutes
€30

Understand the philosophy behind the Yin-Yang theory and how it influenced traditional Chinese healing practices throughout history. This course introduces a key conceptual framework used to interpret balance, change, and health within traditional Chinese medicine.

History of Chinese Medicine explores how Chinese medical thought developed through time and why it still shapes traditional and integrative medicine.
Traditional Medical Systems
History of Chinese Medicine
48 minutes
€60

Discover the development and influence of Chinese traditional medicine throughout history. This course helps learners understand how Chinese medical thought evolved and why it remains influential in traditional and integrative medicine today.

Herbal Medicine for Cystic Fibrosis explores integrative support strategies to improve vitality, resilience, and condition-specific care.
Specific Pathologies
Herbal Medicine for Cystic Fibrosis
1 hour 41 minutes
€60

Discover ways to integrate traditional healing practices into supportive care for people living with cystic fibrosis, with a focus on improving vitality and clinical outcomes. This course introduces an integrative perspective for practitioners seeking a broader view of condition-specific support.

Gut health series teaches how gut microbiome influences metabolism and mental wellbeing, and how herbal medicine may help restore balance.
General Therapeutics
Gut Health Series
40 minutes
€60

Learn how the gut microbiome influences metabolism, host systems, and mental wellbeing, and explore how herbal medicine may support balance within this complex therapeutic area.

Trace Irish indigenous medicine to Irish healing traditions, exploring how traditional systems preserve core ideas of diagnosis and treatment.
Culture & Health
Irish Healing Traditions
9 hours
€250

This course traces the development of Irish indigenous medicine from early myth and folklore through to Christianity and the present day. It explores how traditional medical systems evolve over time while preserving core ideas of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Influence of Culture on the Perception of Health shows how culture and worldview shape traditional medical systems, and how they differ from modern biomedicine.
Culture & Health
Influence of Culture on the Perception of Health
90 minutes
€60

Every medical system emerges from a particular time, place, and culture. This course explores how worldview shapes traditional medical systems, including Chinese medicine, and how these differ from modern biomedicine.

Mental Health explores how the gut microbiome affects anxiety, depression, and wellbeing, with insight into herbal support for mental health.
General Therapeutics
Mental Health
10 minutes
€20

Explores links between the gut microbiome, anxiety, depression, and herbs supporting mental wellbeing.

Mechanism explores how gut microbiota affect the host system through physiological, neurological, and immune pathways that shape health.
General Therapeutics
Mechanism
15 minutes
€20

Examines the complex mechanisms through which gut microbiota influence host systems and overall wellbeing.

You and Your Microbiome explores the gut microbiome, why it matters, and how diet and herbal medicine influence gut health and balance.
General Therapeutics
You and Your Microbiome
13 minutes
€20

Explores how the microbiome and host interact, including herbal support for restoring gut balance.

Always Start with the Gut explores gut health, the microbiome, and their role in metabolism, overall health, and disease development.
General Therapeutics
Always Start with the Gut
10 minutes
€20

Introduces the microbiome, metabolism, and gut health’s role in overall health and disease development.

Irish Indigenous Medicine Today & The Effect of a Changing Worldview explores how science and changing beliefs reshaped Irish healing in the 20th century.
Culture & Health
Irish Indigenous Medicine Today & The Effect of a Changing Worldview
1 hour 20 minutes
€100

This module explores the effects of a changing worldview on Irish indigenous medicine in the 20th century.

The 19th Century Watershed examines the social, cultural, and historical forces that shaped Irish indigenous medicine in the 1800s.
Culture & Health
The 19th Century Watershed
30 minutes
€60

This module explores the major influences on Irish traditional medicine in the 19th century.

Hereditary Medical Families and the Influence of Herbals explores how medical families and herbals shaped plant medicine from the 15th century onward.
Culture & Health
Hereditary Medical Families and the Influence of Herbals
2 hours 25 minutes
€100

This module identifies the role of medical families and the influence of herbals in plant medicine practice from the 15th to the 21st century.

Legend, Myth and the Middle Ages explores Irish healing traditions shaped by worldview, spirituality, and therapeutic practice in the medieval era.
Culture & Health
Legend, Myth and the Middle Ages
1 hour 10 minutes
€60

This module examines the scope of healing evident in legend, myth, and the middle ages.

Understanding the Language explores how traditional medicine is described through indigenous knowledge, Irish folklore, and healing traditions.
Culture & Health
Understanding the Language
52 minutes
€60

This module explores the different language used to describe traditional medicine, as well as indigenous knowledge and its presence in Irish folklore and traditional medicine.

The things I learned from Dr. Rosari and the other teachers from ICTIM are always a part of my medical thinking process, because it changed the way I understand medicine and the treatment process, and for that I am really grateful.

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Dr. Ciro B Rhodes
Brazil
faq

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers to help you choose the right programme for your situation

Do I have to take all the courses to be certified?

No, you can choose which course to take in the CPD programme, and certificates are issued accordingly.

How long is the certification valid for?

Your certification is valid for 1 year after completion of your course.

How long does each course take to complete?

Course length varies depending on the topic and format. Most CPD courses range from around 10 minutes to 3 hours.

Will I have lifelong access to these courses?

Once enrolled in the course, you will have access to the course materials for a year.

Will relevant courses taken previously be taken into account?

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) applies to the Higher Diploma in Clinical Integrative Medicine where course criteria are met. CPD courses are generally short, self-paced modules and are certified individually on completion.

How much do the CPD courses cost?

Every course within the CPD programme is individually priced. Check the individual course pages for more information.

Advance Your Practice with CPD

Expand your knowledge, strengthen your professional development, and apply focused learning directly in your work through ICTIM’s flexible CPD courses.

These courses are for professional herbal register members only

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