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In fairness, naturopaths should be exluded from this list of

homeopathic dabblers. I want to point out that naturopathic

physicians are required to take about 20 credits of homeopathy or 240

classroom hours in the context of a complete 4 year medical program.

In addition, hundreds of hours of internal medicne classes discuss

the

selection of homeopathics as part of standard protocols. Homeopathy

has been practiced as part of Naturopathy for a long time, since the

19th century.

 

Fully trained and licensed Naturopathic physicians are the only

professional healthcare providers who study homeopathy in the context

of such a four year training program. They have extensive supervised

clinical training in this area over a three year period of clinical

rotations. All of the other groups mentioned receive essentially

workshop style classroom training and no significant supervised

clinical training. While ND's do not practice in CA, many chiros and

L.Ac.'s are ND's also. So I suspect there are plenty of well trained

physician level homeopaths around who just can't call themselves

doctor for political reasons. Why not just refer?

 

The unspoken sentiment in Zev's post is that were there to be a

separate doctor of homeopathy degree, how many of you would actually

pursue it for four years? If you think this is a ridiculous

proposal, then I'm sure you would all agree that anyone should also

be

able to practice TCM with no supervised clinical training, as long as

the practitioner feels they are doing the right thing.

 

 

 

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zrosenberg@p...> wrote:

 

> At the present time, homeopathy is not an independant health

> profession, it is practiced by chiropractors, nurses,

acupuncturists,

> naturopaths,

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In a message dated 6/1/00 4:48:24 PM, herb-t writes:

 

<< In fairness, naturopaths should be exluded from this list of

homeopathic dabblers. I want to point out that naturopathic

physicians are required to take about 20 credits of homeopathy or 240

classroom hours in the context of a complete 4 year medical program.

In addition, hundreds of hours of internal medicne classes discuss

the

selection of homeopathics as part of standard protocols. Homeopathy

has been practiced as part of Naturopathy for a long time, since the

19th century.

 

Fully trained and licensed Naturopathic physicians are the only

professional healthcare providers who study homeopathy in the context

of such a four year training program. They have extensive supervised

clinical training in this area over a three year period of clinical

rotations. All of the other groups mentioned receive essentially

workshop style classroom training and no significant supervised

clinical training. While ND's do not practice in CA, many chiros and

L.Ac.'s are ND's also. So I suspect there are plenty of well trained

physician level homeopaths around who just can't call themselves

doctor for political reasons. Why not just refer?

>>

 

Those ND's. They learn homeopathy, physiotherapy, nutrition, diet, western

herbs, chinese herbs, western medicine, surgery, childbirth, acupuncture (in

at least one state where they are licensed, since they are doctors). In

reality, ND's develop a focus and learn whatever focus they choose, with

survey courses of the different possibilities in their core curriulum.

 

In all fairness, the homeopathy course developed by the AAOM recognizes 220+

hours as entry level dabbling and enough homeopathy to be able to think one's

way out of a paper bag with it. Then practitioners are supposed to travel

their own road to get better at constitutional or just use complex safely and

effectively within thier practice.

The question may be whether it is more responsible to require those under a

board's charge to have a certain level of competence in what they are using

than to ignore the fact they are doing it. It may well be the difference

between participating in a field of medicine versus a grouping of modalities.

 

The unspoken sentiment in Zev's post is that were there to be a

separate doctor of homeopathy degree, how many of you would actually

pursue it for four years? If you think this is a ridiculous

proposal, then I'm sure you would all agree that anyone should also

be

able to practice TCM with no supervised clinical training, as long as

the practitioner feels they are doing the right thing.

 

Homeopathy is presently, and will remain, a modality, for in reality very few

want to do it, and those from each branch of medicine who do it well will

continue to do so. There are no colleges, realistically, anywhere in the

world that have developed curriucula of singularly homeopathy for students

out of college wanting to study medicine. If you think the fractionalizm is

bad in OM, check ut homeopathy.

 

 

David Molony

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