The National Guild of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NGAOM) is a professional medical society and an Office for Professional Employees International Union, affiliated with the AFL-CIO.

Organized under the auspices of the Office for Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU Guild # 62), The Guild provides a national focus to promote health and well being through the utilization of acupuncture and Oriental medicine, and to advance, protect and preserve the profession.

Our mission is to develop and maintain scientifically based standards of practice for Oriental medicine and to advocate for legislation thru the California Labor Federation AFL-CIO and our National AFL-CIO to assure our inclusion as primary providers of Oriental medicine in the nation’s healthcare system. Active membership in the Guild is open to fully licensed practitioners of Oriental medicine only. There are no corporate or institutional memberships.

The Guild is committed to educational reform and endeavors to remove legislative and educational barriers to competent Oriental medical care.

Providing peer review oversight of its members and educational programs that are preparatory for fully integrated private and institutional practice, the Guild represents the voice of the profession and organized labor. Professional organizations affiliated with the OPEIU are a diverse group which includes physicians, optometrists, pharmacists, chiropractors, appraisers, podiatrists, clinical social workers, biofeedback practitioners, acupuncturists, hypnotists and helicopter pilots. Partnering with the OPEIU benefits them in a number of ways. Affiliation with the OPEIU has given these groups more legislative clout and greater access to people who need their services.

With Healthcare becoming an increasing concern and national issue, any national healthcare plan should be represented with a strong voice for acupuncture services. The Guild and it affiliations is the only organization poised to add this greater bargaining message to the collective table.

Support the Guild today and become a member of the only professional society for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

Click here to read or download the NGAOM Code of Ethics