Pat, Credits are practice hours, as far as I know. 200 hrs are enough here in one school, while another requires only 30! Thus a week at least, and a month at most are the requirements for opening practice. I like the Conncticut requirements better, but that lack of control is the closed shop mentality we also have here and have adopted from the allopaths. The national standards are that you must keep records, but there is no muscle to enforce proper practice, which is bought off with malpractice insurance. Imagine! you can stuff up in the knowledge that you need not pay for it! what kind of stimulus for proper practice is that!?

The best rules are those that Hahnemann set out in the Organon, but they need enforcement by a strong body with more than paper powers. Personally, I would like to see a 4 year day-school, with anatomy, physiology and pathology (at least of the visible signs and symptoms), nutrition and thorough-going homoeopathic study of all the relevant books, beginning with the Organon, Chronic Diseases and such material. Study of the MM in a systematic manner, rather than alphabetical, by relationship and pathology discussed in the other classes, so that an integrated whole is created that can be practically applied. After all, that is the test of the homoeopath. Then at least 1 year practice 3 days a week in the school clinic, which should be free, so that many come for treatment and real cases can be solved. Then another year as an intern with a practicing homoeopath, 5 days a week, to learn the finer points. Then, give a diploma.

[This message has been edited by Ben Rozendal (edited 09 September 1999).]