It appears that here in Australia, there is about to be a huge change in standards of study (hours of contact for health sciences etc.)
The only problem is that the Govt. & the industry association (not the AHA) have yet to publish these standards and the schools don't know as yet what they will have to teach.
It also seems that current homeopaths will have to upgrade to these new unpublished standards to legally practice.
At present it seems that the Health Sciences will be upgraded from 135 hours of A&P, 100 hours of biochemistry & 300 hours of Patholgy.
What are the health science standards in other countries? Do you have to do Nutrition?
Apparently counselling & Medical Diagnosis will have to be included.
I would be interested to compare study requirements.

Great [oops, double posting].

[ 12 February 2002, 05:07: Message edited by: Simone ]

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Great. So I am studying here in England, where there are no legal requirements, i.e. anyone can put a sign up saying they're a homeopath and I find out - yet again - that the system is changing back home. At this rate I will be studying homeopathy for 7 years before I qualify under Australian standards.

I contacted the AHA, in October 2001, about these requirements and they told me that basically any Licentiate I receive over here will be enough to allow me to registered with the Association.

But, from what you are saying, things are changing - again.

Geez!!!!!

How long are they expecting these courses in homeopathy to run, Ozzie? I mean it takes about 4/5 years part-time to learn homeopathy alone - then to have to learn counselling (another 2 years), diagnostics (another 1-2 years?).

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Simone,
I did 400 hours of Homeopathy (lecture hours)& more than 100 clinic hours. From the information I got today from one of the colleges. I don't think the counselling & Diagnostics will be more than a semester each...but no-one's sure!
It is my understanding that the Naturopathic colleges offer a couple of semesters of Homeopathic study & yet they are able to practice as homeopaths. along with their main modalities.
I love studying, but I have my limits (financially & emotionally).

I am finishing off my Health Sciences (or trying to) but since I started the hours have increased by more than 100 hours & short of either doing a nursing degree or B.Sc, (I don't want to be a Medical doctor, I just want to do Homeopathy! I think I'm going to have to bail out & go back to the education sector full time (hate the paperwork, hate the politics - gets in the way of actually teaching the kids!)

Anyone got a remedy to help with this one?

Ozzie,

Can I ask where you got this information from, please? I would like to pass it on to the AHA and ask them how this will affect what I am doing over here.

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If I may, I need to retract part of my earlier posting.

Actually, it was in November last year and I was informed that whether or not my qualifications would meet the AHA criteria would be "assessed against the Australian National Competency Standards for
Homoeopathy", I assume on an individual basis. It may be that I would have to sit an examination in order to register.

My apologies if I misrepresented any information that was given to me.

Ozzie

Information about those standards can be found at http://www.cshta.com.au/

[ 13 February 2002, 03:41: Message edited by: Simone ]

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Thanks for the link Simone, but have been there and the alternative/complementary health pages are under construction, which confirms what my source said about them not knowing what the new standards are.

Perhaps I could get my studies accredited overseas?

Ozzie

I have written to the people who run the standards website, asking them when the web site will be up and running and I have also emailed the ARH to find out what the requirements are.

The Australian College of Natural Medicine (http://www.acnm.edu.au) has incorporated all the requirements into their courses already.

If you go to their website and look up the homoeopathy course you will see the required subjects.

As for overseas registration, why not? But, how would that then affect your insurance cover?

Have emailed you privately regarding other issues.

Members of BB

Can anyone advise as to what the minimum requirements are in their respective countries?

[ 14 February 2002, 03:47: Message edited by: Simone ]

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Thanks Simone for your replies.

For those overseas you may be interested to see how our new standards fare.

The practitioner assistant course is quite involved & not too many homeopaths I know are in a position to employ staff. This course is the pre-requisite to practitioner training (in Qld)at the TAFE college.
I believe it is based on the new national standards.
This is from a college of TAFE in Queensland:

http://www.southbank.tafe.net/course/DOM/39001QLD.htm

I am not going to continue with my formal homeopathic studies as the standards have risen whilst I have been studying & it is impossible to complete my studies to the new standards by 30 June.

I'm even thinking of quitting my day job & going to do a massage therapist qualification (where my prior & current studies ARE recognised.)and continuing to work with children.

Obviously I'm in the middle of my mid-life crisis..

I will continue to practice homeopathy in the classical method as an adjunct to my other therapies for as long as it is legal to do so & I can continue to get insurance.

I will continue to learn from self motivated studies of homeopathy through the net & with collegues who are like minded.

I wish the AHA all the best in their efforts to put homeopathy on the same level as allopathic medicine.

Hi Ozzie, Simone,

Yeah, that's the way we do things here in Brisbane. The last person still standing gets to be a homoeopath. It's as easy as winning a gold medal at the Winter Olympics!

I noticed 60 hours of lecture time devoted to massage studies? A prerequisite to becoming a homoeopathic practitioner? Sounds like they're still bulking out the course to meet government standards. It took me 5 years part time 3 nights a week to finish mine at the ACNM and I had to do several "compulsary electives" (how's that for an oxymoron?) in the naturopathic stream to get that bit of paper. Mine is called Bachelor of Homeopathy, the very next year they told me to come back and get a Diploma of Health Science (I didn't) for it to be recognized blah, blah, blah. I don't mind studying either and I'm all for the cause of homoeopathy but I refuse to pay mega $$$ to study stuff that is irrelevant to my practice.
If it comes down to the line I'd be happy to just put Witch, By Appointment on my mailbox.