Re: REgulation - Was: CHC Test
Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:30 pm
Dear Theresa
When the attempts by SoH and others in UK came to nothing, I wrote to SoH and recommended that we examine and take note from other organisations - for example the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Chartered accountants are respected by Government and businesses alike. (Yes we still have good and bad amongst them.)
There are lots of schools for accountants. But the exams for chartered accountants are set by the Institute and marked by them. So standards are maintained.
If homeopathy schools are accredited by a nationally recognised registration body, then their curriculum and their teaching and monitoring must also be approved by the same body. So the tests at the end of each year set by the nationally recognised accreditation body should not be a major problem.
To me it seems a simple and effective way of doing it.
The schools have the freedom to teach what they want to a degree in addition to the core criteria set out by the registration body. So we would then be sure that the graduate are all up to a set standard.
[My problem has always been, if someone in another town requires the help of a homeopath, can one safely pick up the directory and guide them on?
Would one do it to one's nearest and dearest?]
Rgds
Soroush
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From: minutus@yahoogroups.com [mailto:minutus@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Theresa Partington
Sent: 05 July 2009 10:05
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Minutus] Re: CHC Test
Interesting typo here, Luise. We spent many years in UK trying to get a registration/self-regulation concensus going in order to avoid the state 'fist'! It fell apart at the eleventh hour and now an attempt by the largest organisation to go it alone and make the ensuing independent body open to non-members too also seems to have hit a wall. No-one is giving up on the ideal but it is looking increasingly unlikely to me that the state fist will be avoided. In our case there would be a general lowering of standards as our existing colleges mostly teach to well above the general standard of 'complementary' therapies. The emphasis would be on professional behaviour rather than quality and type of practice, I suspect.
Theresa
Luise wrote:
But would not the certification organisation have to be accredited by
the state fist in order to mean anything?
I mean, just as anyone can call himself a homeopath, any group of
people can set up a "certification board". set standards of their own
liking and start certifying - schools and individuals.
So standards would have to be agreed on by ALL those who consider
themselves homeopaths, they would have to speak in one voice to
persuade the authorities to agree to those standards. If there is
strife, you cannot expect the authorities to know enough to determine
whether classcal homeopathy or Heilkunst or mixopathy or.. standards
are best - and you cannot expect Heilkunst or mixopathy to agree that
"classical" is best or the only way.
I do not see how you can overcome that hurdle.
When the attempts by SoH and others in UK came to nothing, I wrote to SoH and recommended that we examine and take note from other organisations - for example the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Chartered accountants are respected by Government and businesses alike. (Yes we still have good and bad amongst them.)
There are lots of schools for accountants. But the exams for chartered accountants are set by the Institute and marked by them. So standards are maintained.
If homeopathy schools are accredited by a nationally recognised registration body, then their curriculum and their teaching and monitoring must also be approved by the same body. So the tests at the end of each year set by the nationally recognised accreditation body should not be a major problem.
To me it seems a simple and effective way of doing it.
The schools have the freedom to teach what they want to a degree in addition to the core criteria set out by the registration body. So we would then be sure that the graduate are all up to a set standard.
[My problem has always been, if someone in another town requires the help of a homeopath, can one safely pick up the directory and guide them on?
Would one do it to one's nearest and dearest?]
Rgds
Soroush
________________________________
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com [mailto:minutus@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Theresa Partington
Sent: 05 July 2009 10:05
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Minutus] Re: CHC Test
Interesting typo here, Luise. We spent many years in UK trying to get a registration/self-regulation concensus going in order to avoid the state 'fist'! It fell apart at the eleventh hour and now an attempt by the largest organisation to go it alone and make the ensuing independent body open to non-members too also seems to have hit a wall. No-one is giving up on the ideal but it is looking increasingly unlikely to me that the state fist will be avoided. In our case there would be a general lowering of standards as our existing colleges mostly teach to well above the general standard of 'complementary' therapies. The emphasis would be on professional behaviour rather than quality and type of practice, I suspect.
Theresa
Luise wrote:
But would not the certification organisation have to be accredited by
the state fist in order to mean anything?
I mean, just as anyone can call himself a homeopath, any group of
people can set up a "certification board". set standards of their own
liking and start certifying - schools and individuals.
So standards would have to be agreed on by ALL those who consider
themselves homeopaths, they would have to speak in one voice to
persuade the authorities to agree to those standards. If there is
strife, you cannot expect the authorities to know enough to determine
whether classcal homeopathy or Heilkunst or mixopathy or.. standards
are best - and you cannot expect Heilkunst or mixopathy to agree that
"classical" is best or the only way.
I do not see how you can overcome that hurdle.
