and FDA and laws by presidents to protect drug company profits, and state officials who are above the law, and the AVMA and CVA and ADA (dental and diabetes) and on and on - all organizations (not educators)
Is there?
That is debatable.
They have a vested interest in self-agrandizement and profiteering.
I agree with the need to be properly trained.
But I see no organizations doing a good job of stipulating who has what level of credential, in an objective but knowledgeable fashion.
At least not in USA.
For example here the AVMA decides who may use homeopathy, but not one of their vet schools teaches it.
And here one veterinarian with NO homepathy training or credential, has set up a "certification" of "homeopathic veterinarians" provided they pass his 5 weekend course (it used to be 3 then 4, now 5 weekends) at a spa where he gives seminars for a large fee.
What's needed is an AGREED definition of what needs to be known, to be called a homeopath.
For example in the animal area, vets need a DVM degree.
Homeopaths should need a D.Vet.Hom degree (which is not obtainable in 5 weekends).
I wish that was true.
It is not.
There is a lot of separate exam setting that does not make sense, done by peple who are not knowledgeable enough to produce a sensible set of criteria - and a lot of money gubbing with no explanation as to what is done with the very cushy fees for doing nothing.
Money should be paid for the training - period.
An overseeing body should ensure that each school indeed trains the required material.
This will not fleece-line a lot of pockets but is what we really need.
We do not need separate exams after a degreee has been completed at the proper quality level.
The schools are in a MUCH better position to do the testing, throghout the degree course, than a few females asking for memory capabilities and CPR as is currently being promoted most UNsuitably and expensively.
Different schools will naturally have better ot worse quality of training, but a basic information set can be imposed and the reputations of the scools can stand on their own just as Harvard, Oxford, Rhodes and other degrees stand on their own with no need of external exams.
Have a degree designation such as D.I.Hom, or D.Vet.Hom to deem someone a professional homeopath.
We do not have a dangerous field like allopathy and do not need an AMA or AVMA or FDA to tell us what constitutes a homeopath.
(All three of those put together could not find a homepathic remedy for a bruise anyway).
Nothing will guarantee that any more than it does with doctors, vets or plumbers.
All the more reason NOT to add an organization above the school degree level, for homeopaths to deal with.
SO long as each homeopathy degree has stipulated minimum subject matter, the degree is all that is needed - plus a body to check that the SCHOOLS (not the graduates) do include the required material in theor courses.
The graduates get a degree, end of story. That makes them professional homeopaths.
NO inappropriate memory test is needed after that. The SCHOOL (yours an mine for example) will set exams that they can be proud of, as to the quality of their graduates, ensuring the prescribed material is covered.
THAT makes for healthy competition, aas currently happens between uiniversities (not money grubbing by a separate group with ideas that do not set well in any school worth their salt.)
Except that has changed to suit the desires and income of a few women with a memory test on specific remedies.
That DOWNGRADES your school significantly as that is no way to test the mettle of any homeopath.
The individual university system is a good one and does not require additional exams.
THAT is what we need.
It caters for differences between schools while covering the basic requjirements for a degree.
Homeopathy does not have the kind of litigation and malpractice risks and death rate that cause the western medicine practitioers to need further controlling systems. We shojd NOT be copying a rotten system. The independent university degree system is a good one, we should copy that. It allows for the individual choices made by different schools and it shoud do thatl. For example my school teaches aqueous Fibonacci potencies and only the theory of LMs. THat is not so in your school (unless it just changed).
Your school emphasizes memorizing of remedy material - leadign to trying to fit a remedy to a patient.
Mine emphasizes study of patient symptoms, genetic traits and illness predisposition features - leading to looking for patieint symptoms in the repertory to lead to a remedy.
The approaches arer different, and allow for the two schools to follow their preferred aproach to homeopahtu.
But both cover the basics of the Organon, and Hahnemann's other writings (I presume, though I can only speak for my own school here) its principles and application.
The point is that is is IMPORTANT for schopols NOT to all teach the same way but to each do the best tghey know how, in their own individualizes way, whilst covering/including the basics of Homeopathy as per Hahnemann.
HOW that is covered is individual. THAT it is covered is essential.
This is how good universities operate.
They all offer degrees in various faculties - chemistry, engineering, physics etc.
So should we.
WE shoud certify the homeopathy school - not the homeopaths.
Homeopaths are automatically certified if they have the degree from a certified school's degree program.
There is no need for recertification every year.
It is not like medicine where new drugs coe out daly and must be studied as to how they kill and main people.
We dont have that kind of profession.
What Hahnemann knew 200 yrs ago, will work fine today.
That is not so in the constantly changing chemical warfare medicine that doctors and vets practice.
Homeopaths shoud be qualified according to the minimum controling approach that is applicable, and the medical profession ones are NOT applicable.
We indeed have steps of progress and new information and research in homeopathy, and can decide as we go along what new items to include, or what to leave as school options - but unlike other professions the basic principles of practice are set and not a fly by night thing that needs annual certification. ONE degree credential is plenty.
Anyone using homeopathy should be required to inform their client of what kind of training they have.
That includes lay homeopaths without a degree.
It would be reasonable to suggest that those with a degree should have their work reimbnursed by medical insurance.
Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
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