3 YEAR PROFESSIONAL, INTENSIVE, ON-SITE COURSE

The course is designed to take the student, step by step, toward an understanding of homeopathy and a knowledge of how to apply it. Through lectures and assigned studies, your thinking and perception will develop.

Assessment and evaluation provide important feedback in your developmental process. Assessment also helps instructors understand where your strengths and weaknesses lie. Evaluation is done through home assignments after each session. Exams will be held at the end of each year plus smaller tests throughout the year. In-class participation is essential to your development.

NOTE: THE CLASS BEGINNING IN 2005 WILL BE THE LAST 3 YEAR ON-SITE COURSE THAT THE TIH WILL OFFER.

COURSE SYLLABUS - YEAR ONE

What is health? What is illness? What is cure? Why do some people suffer from repeated illness, while others don’t?

The first year of the TIH program is a deep exploration of what homeopathy is all about. Through learning the principles and philosophy that are the cornerstone of this healing art, you will begin to make the shift in thinking to understanding health and illness from a holistic perspective.

This is an exciting and stimulating year that will allow you to “test the waters” of homeopathy while providing you with a sound, systematic understanding of its principles and philosophy. You will learn how to apply homeopathy effectively as a means of self-help for yourself, family, and friends in simple first aid and everyday acute situations. While this year alone will not train you to be a homeopathic practitioner, it is the basis for learning more in-depth homeopathy and is the foundation for practitioner training.

Homeopathic Principles and Philosophy
A large part of Year One will deal with homeopathic philosophy and principles. Homeopathy is essentially a holistic energetic approach to healing. This dynamic and holistic nature of health, disease and cure is outlined primarily by Hahnemann in the Organon and Kent in his Lecture on Homeopathic Philosophy, and will be stressed and discussed in great detail.

The following topics will be covered in Year One:
*Homeopathic history
*Nature of health, disease, and cure
*Vital force and susceptibility to disease
*First aid, acute and chronic disease differentiation
*Law of similars and law of direction of cure
*Acute case-taking, analysis and prescribing
*Genus epidemicus
*First aid prescribing
*Potency repetition related to first aid and acute prescribing
*Primary and secondary action
*Repertory structure and usage
*Homeopathic therapeutics in acute disease (flu, colds, ear complaints, headaches, childhood problems, digestive problems, etc.)
*Introduction to chronic case-taking, simple chronic case analysis, miasms, *Schussler’s biochemic tissue salts

Materia Medica ( Catalogue of homeopathic remedies and symptoms)
Remedies studied this year will include major remedies for first aid usage and remedies that are commonly used in everyday acute problems. Some of the major polycrests will also be studied.

Human Sciences
Human Sciences studies will also begin in Year One. Unless a student has already met the Human Sciences requirements for the Anatomy & Physiology course, the student will be required to participate in the Anatomy & Physiology self-study course which will run concurrently with the Year One program.

COURSE SYLLABUS - YEAR TWO

This year will be a deepening of what has been learned in the first year. Your understanding of homeopathy will deepen through your participation in ongoing lectures and studies. Guest speakers will share their insight and experience to help expand your knowledge and to introduce different styles of learning and practice.

Homeopathic Principles and Philosophy will include the following:
*Remedy reaction and second prescription
*Different forms of case analysis, e.g. essence, totality, keynotes, patterns of functioning, never well since, core delusion, etc.
*Potency and repetition
*Tautopathy
*Case management
*Advanced and comparative repertory work
*Miasms and nosodes
*Obstacles to cure
*Case-taking
*Therapeutics of acute complaints such as cystitis, headaches, sciatica, and gallstone colic.

Materia Medica will include more polycrests as well as smaller remedies, and an introduction to the classification of remedies according to their kingdom.

Human Sciences
All students will be required to participate in the self-study course, Disease & Pathology, which will run concurrently with the Year Two course.

 

COURSE SYLLABUS - YEAR THREE

This is the final year of the lecture format, with increasing emphasis given to how you apply what you have been learning. Participation in the case-taking exercises increases and your ability to “think like a homeopath” is refined.

Homeopathic Principles and Methodology
Third year topics will include the following:
* more on different view of miasms
*Long term and difficult case management
*Repertory work and interpretation of symptoms
*Repetition and use of potencies
*Family groupings of remedies, kingdoms
*Therapeutics (mastitis, morning sickness, painful labor, difficult dentition, renal colic, migraines, rheumatic complaints, and remedies related to organ systems
*Practical issues in practice
*Bowel nosodes
*Female problems

Materia Medica
More polycrests and smaller remedies with more emphasis on family and kingdom groupings.

 

 

HUMAN SCIENCES

All students, except for those requesting an exemption, will be required to complete two Human Sciences courses, Anatomy & Physiology and Pathology & Disease. Both of these courses can be taken by correspondence and are offered by the TIH. Both courses will run concurrently with the TIH course. There is a separate charge for each of these courses.

Students may request to be exempt from the TIH Anatomy & Physiology correspondence course based on prior academic training in this area.

Students with health related training such as MD, ND, DC, BScPharm, BSN, DDS and DVM are exempt from this course provided they submit academic transcripts and/or professional licenses at the time of application.

Other students may also seek exemption from the Anatomy & Physiology course. However, the TIH will require a transcript of completion from an accredited institution for this course or evidence of current enrollment in such a course before the TIH class year begins. The course must be the equivalent of a 3 hour college course.

Acceptance by TIH of credentials in Anatomy & Physiology does not guarantee that the student has met the criteria for certifying boards.

All students will be required to complete the Disease & Pathology course for Alternative Practioners offered by the TIH.