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About The Homeopathic Symposium

The general trends in the teaching of medicine are moving toward working with case or problem based learning. Contemporary medical schools have been creating text-based clinical correlates for this purpose which inspired our development of an interactive video library, designed to facilitate the teaching of homeopathic case taking and case analysis.

Our team of instructors are highly respected practitioners from all over the world and they'll be sharing not only videos of their patients, but also their teaching and philosophy of practice.

Before we go any further let me make clear that this site is not open to the public. It requires verified registration and is offered to homeopathic practitioners, current students of homeopathy and medical professionals. The site has been carefully constructed to respect the strict patient confidentiality requirements of the HIPAA regulations. In addition of course, we've obtained written permission from all the patients involved.

In our Learning Center you will find the teaching tools we're offering are multimedia lectures that consist of voice or video narrated presentations on a variety of topics. We will be offering pieces developed on plant families in homeopathy, periodic table classifications, working with mental/emotional symptoms, understanding miasms, and many other topics of homeopathic practice, philosophy and pharmacy.

The most unique feature of this site is our library of case videos. Each case has been developed into an interactive module and you will be able to search through these cases by presenting complaint, practitioner, or remedy.

The five to ten minute preview that we've created for each case serves two purposes; to help you decide if you're interested in working through the entire three to four hour module but also to share our successes with the greater medical community. The Homeopathic Symposium's slogan is teaching good prescribing, documenting cure. We hope this site will be used to introduce those in the medical field, who are unfamiliar with homeopathy to how effective this medicine can be for so many different types of illness.

After watching a preview and deciding to take a specific course you'll have the option of viewing the intake with practitioner video commentary. Along the side, you'll see the intake has been broken into chapters with practitioner commentary featured at the end of each of the segments.

Now at any time, if you get confused as to where you are within the interactive module, just take a look above the screen where you'll find your progress tracked; preview, intake, analysis, prescription, follow-up and quiz.

In the analysis section of the module, our practitioners share with you their various methods of how they approach a case. This talk is followed by what we call the analysis work area, where a full transcription of the entire intake is available for study. We've created this window where you can assemble key words or phrases from the case to assist in theme building.

Having based this module on a mentorship approach to learning, we feel it's important to preserve the individuality of each homeopath's thought process by providing a step-by-step analysis from the practitioner who solved the case. Assistance is also available in the form of a full repertorization of the case. Get only as much help as you need, then go back to working on your own. We've designed incremental instruction in a manner which accommodates both beginners needs yet respects an advanced practitioner's desire for little or no help at all. But for the student, it's comforting to know that assistance is just a click away.

Now comes the really fun part. Our virtual prescription pad! You've worked on the case, studied your materia medica, and come up with a remedy that you think best fits this patient. Simply type in your prescription, and... if it matches the remedy that the patient received, you'll see a presentation about it and how it fit the case.  If the remedy you chose wasn't given, but one which was considered by the teaching practitioner, you'll get a full explanation as to why it wasn't the remedy prescribed.

Now, we move to the follow-ups. Here we track for you the patient's progress and intersperse it with commentary from the practitioner. Is the patient better, is it time for another dose of the medicine? A change of potency? Or perhaps another remedy? Oh…the tough questions of case management!

Our interactive module ends with a short quiz which is automatically corrected and then a certificate of completion is issued, which is valid for three to four hours of continuing education credit.

A note about this site and internet connections. For the streaming video to work properly, you're going to want to use a high speed connection. So if you have a dial up modem, you may want to locate a school or library in your area from which you could take our courses.