OCOM’s highly qualified faculty members are committed to the college and its mission. They are a dedicated group of professionals who generously share their knowledge and skills with their students. While grounded in the theoretical framework of their subject matter, most faculty members are also skilled practitioners. By continuing to practice their medicine/healing art, they also grow and develop, sharing their scholarship and clinical wisdom with OCOM’s students.

Most of OCOM's classroom faculty teach several courses, often in sequence. They get to know their students well and often instruct them first as new students—opening the world of Chinese medicine to them. In the middle years of the curriculum, they guide students in integrating the theoretical with the practical application. In the final year or the program, the same faculty members serve as clinical supervisors, coaching interns in diagnosis, methodology, and clinical judgment. By the time of graduation, students have formed meaningful bonds with their faculty.

OCOM maintains a core of full-time faculty members with an intentional mix of China-trained and western-trained practitioners/instructors. The full-time faculty is supplemented by part-time and adjunct faculty, often chosen for their depth of knowledge in a specialized area. OCOM’s biomedicine faculty members are naturopathic physicians who are also licensed acupuncturists, enabling them to make the western medicine courses relevant and interesting for a practitioner of Chinese medicine.