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Training in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for healthcare professionals
- Jeremy Swayne (23 January 2001)
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Re: Training in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for healthcare professionals
- Dr.Sathish Pandurang Ladda (29 June 2007)
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Jeremy Swayne, Dean Faculty of Homeopathy
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Mills is right to highlighting the importance of proper training and regulation for healthcare professionals who practise CAM. But he is wrong to imply that the provision does not exist. The Faculty of Homeopathy is the body statutorily appointed to oversee the education and training of doctors and other statutorily registered healthcare professionals in homeopathy. We provide and continue to develop curricula and qualifying examinations for doctors, dentists, nurses and midwives, pharmacists and podiatrists - and vets, from introductory level for primary care practitioners up to consultant specialist level. We accredit five teaching centres in the UK, four of them based in NHS homeopathic hospitals, where this curriculum is delivered, and are in the process of accrediting an honours degree course for nurses at a British university. We strongly deprecate the practise of homeopathy by health care professionals who are not properly trained and qualified through this or an equivalent accredited programme, and require that our members practise within the bounds of competence, conventional and homeopathic, to which they are trained. We favour a system of regulation which requires health care professionals who wish to practise homeopathy to undertake this training, and continuing professional development following on from it. The main risks arising from CAM are not those directly due to the therapies themselves, but the indirect risks due to limitations in the therapists’ diagnostic and clinical knowledge and skills. These are less likely to occur with medically qualified practitioners, who therefore have an essential role in the development and delivery of integrated CAM services. |
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Dr.Sathish Pandurang Ladda, Homoeopathic-radionic consultant Beed[Maharashtra],India - 431122
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The site and the information in it is very interesting.If we are able to consider all the complimentary or alternative therapies under on heading and under same rules it will show the fine output.All the alternative therapies are considaring the man as a whole and the governing power to it is Vital force or Lifeforce. Dr.Sathish Ladda,India Competing interests: CAM for radionic Homoeopathy |
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