The Foundations of Homoeopathy

THE FOUNDATIONS OF HOMOEOPATHY

Developed by Dr David Reilly FRCP MRCGP FFHOM

A Professional Postgraduate Introductory Course Open To
All Statutory Registered Health Care Professionals.

In Glasgow, Scotland or as a Synchronised Distant Learning Video Course

The Glasgow course is accredited by The Faculty Of Homoeopathy (UK) &
PGEA approved (UK)
Distributed by The Academic Departments of Glasgow Homoeopathic Hospital

INTRODUCTION

Thank you for your interest in the Foundations of Homoeopathy which we hope you might join. This course is recognised internationally and has been taken by over 900 doctors and 400 nurses, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and veterinary surgeons since 1985. Research has shown that they have found it a valuable development of their professional practice and a way of increasing their ability to help their patients and clients. Feedback on a recent final course day brought ratings of either 'excellent' or 'outstanding' from 100% of the students. A 2 year follow up in 1990 of 40 doctors who had attended an earlier version of this course showed 78% were still using homoeopathy integrated in their orthodox medical practice.

They told us it had:

Rekindled my interest in clinical medicine
I find practice richer and more fascinating
More aware of natural healing
I listen more and I am less dismissive
It has given me a new outlook on chronic disease
Less willing to just prescribe NSAIDs, antibiotics and psychotropics
Now see the patient as a whole and not so much at a cellular biochemical level
More aware of the dissatisfaction with conventional medicine
Should be part of medical training
I am an orthodox doctor who now sees that homoeopathy has a place in practice.

There is a steadily increasing patient demand for homoeopathy and with its freedom from side effects, whole person perspective and low costs it has a great deal to offer in contemporary medicine and care. The course however is not just about learning to use homoeopathy, it is about a critical evaluation of the science, ideas and insights which the subject involves. The issues of good consulting, mind body medicine and good science are given emphasis.

This course has pioneered a research based method of allowing health care workers to very successfully use targeted areas of homoeopathy, while recognising that in-depth treatment of chronic disease is beyond the scope of a first year student. It covers situations of everyday practice, e.g. trauma, simple infections, allergies and emotional shock. Some students are satisfied with this and refer any more difficult problem to a specialist, but many choose in addition to slowly make inroads towards greater levels of skill.

These completely redesigned courses began in 1985, and they have been continuously refined and adapted from the experiences and feedback from the participants. They have grown into the most popular postgraduate medical courses in the UK, orthodox or otherwise, and the 'Glasgow Model' has been adopted and adapted throughout the UK, in Holland and in the USA. The lectures and discussions are inspired by health care practitioners actively using homoeopathy integrated with their orthodox care, and real life case histories and video consultations are used. An integral part of the experience is an innovate action research model where you monitor your prescribing and return standardised outcomes as part of the IDCCIM project: The International Data Collection Centres for Integrated Medicine. The collective results of all students are then fed back to the class and in this way the student, teachers and collective group, learn from each other's experiences. The current IDCCIM cycle began in February 95 and already has over 2000 cases. It has shown average success rates for the course targets of 70 -80% with adverse events at under 2%.

References

Reilly DT, Taylor MA. The Postgraduate Experiment. Published in pages 29-31 of Developing Integrated Medicine. RCCM Research Fellowship in Complementary Medicine. Complementary Therapies in Medicine 1993;1 Suppl 1:1-50.
Reilly DT. Clarifying competence by defining its limits. Lessons from the Glasgow Education Model of Homoeopathic Training. Complementary Therapies in Medicine 1995:3;21-24.
Reilly DT A Certificate of Primary Care Homoeopathy Br Hom J 1994;83:57-58.
Reilly D, Duncan R, Leckridge B, Riley D, Edwards R. IDCCIM. International Data Collection Centres for Integrative Medicine. The Uni. of Exeter 2nd Annual Symposium on Compl Health Care. December 1995.