International Homeopathic Medical Students Competition

[Shannon Nelson]

I love that approach--take the test to *see* what your own strengths
and weaknesses are! (And I like the idea of giving certification or
etc. for those with a very high level of achievement.)
Shannon
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[DCR]

I've obviously not received some of the emails about this topic, so forgive me if I have missed your explanation. From what I can gather you have created some sort of examination that you feel will judge the relative competency of homeopaths and allow you to judge the best of the best in the form of a competition, which you will then interpret to rank or judge the best homeopathic schools? Wow. On what can you base a 'competition' - fastest answers? most complete answers? fastest use of reference materials? ability to quote from the basic literature? The idea of a competition seems so strange - I thought the purpose of homeopathy was the care of individuals (humans and animals). If you put a patient in a room with 5 experienced homeopaths you are likely to get 5 approaches to working with them. Who is qualified to judge which is 'best'? There is a 'competitive' method of evaluating and judging this? I could understand if you say you are holding a mass examination to determine basic level of test taking skills based on well established standards - and rank schools based on the numbers of students that pass or fail ( that does not appear to be what you are undertaking). However, even that requires an agreement on the 'standards', methods of testing, language(s) of testing, etc.

Competition is a contest, or match, where according to fixed rules, one is selected as better than another. Somehow that just doesn't seem to be compatible with the basic concepts of learning or practicing homeopathy.