Guest guest Posted June 1, 2000 Report Share Posted June 1, 2000 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. -- In , " " < zrosenberg@p...> wrote: > At the present time, homeopathy is not an independant health > profession, it is practiced by chiropractors, nurses, acupuncturists, > naturopaths, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 3, 2000 Report Share Posted June 3, 2000 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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