Herbal Medics Academy (HMA) is the branch of The Human Path school, that is focused solely on botanical medicine as well as the medicine-related subjects that fulfill requirements for the medic foundational path.

The curriculum at HMA includes over 1800 hours of online, on-campus and clinical practicum.  This curriculum is divided as follows:

• Introduction to Herbal Medicine for Beginners: This 6-week, online course is the starting point for someone with little to no background in herbal medicine.  Starting from ground zero, this course is a good introduction that leads into the next course – Introduction to Herbal Medicine for Professionals.
• Herbal Medicine for Professionals: This is a 12 week online course.  Students are mailed packages of herbs and other resources to be able to make medicine at home, as a class.  Over the course of 12 weeks, 60+ interactive hours (video lectures and Q & A), quizzes and weekly assignments all serve to create an environment that gives the student all of the introduction they need to move into our more advanced courses.
• The Path of the Clinical Herbalist: This path takes about 3 years to complete.  Following the Intro for Professionals, the student is ready to take our pathophysiology modules (online), case management, formulation and other online classes, while beginning their clinical hours.  The required 400 clinical hours can be accrued through our distance (phone) clinic and round table discussion, at our community clinic settings, individual case studies, and our clinical weeks around the country.
• The Apothecarist: This path includes approximately 18 months of online, highly-interactive, live classes, homework involving herbs and materials sent to the student’s home, and 6 medicine making intensives.  The intensive subjects are:  Mushroom Medicine Making, Advanced Internal Botanical Medicine Making, External Botanical Medicine Making, GMP for Medicine Makers and Multi-Fractional Botanical Medicine Making I and II.
• The Path of the Family Herbalist: This path is geared toward the management of health care issues in the family and focuses on reproductive health, community herbalism, fertility, herbal safety, pet herbalism (furbalism!) and pediatric health.  
• Wilderness First Aid and Wilderness First Responder Certification: These certification courses are a 24-hour (3-day on-campus) certification course held multiple times a year.  In addition to fulfilling the curriculum and training requirements for a full 16-hour WFA and an 80-hour WFR certification, these courses also include an integration of botanical medicine in austere and post-disaster environments.

Herbal Medics teaches on-site courses in Southern California, San Antonio, TX, Utah and Colorado, as well as other locations in the US. 

Our courses are offered both online and on-campus  as well as much longer segments of back-to-back courses on-campus for people from out of town who want a full immersion experience.