Advanced Diploma of Homeopathy (HLT60607)
The College offers training in the Advanced Diploma of Homoeopathy through an innovative teaching program. Training involves a combination of online learning (including virtual classrooms conducted through a web conferencing platform) and 'intensive training blocks' of 2 - 4 days scheduled 3 times in each 12 month period.
This qualification covers the skills needed to work at practitioner level in homoeopathy including the delivery of homoeopathic treatment and care. It also includes the skills needed for basic Homoeopathic research.
Duration: This qualification generally takes 3 and a half years to complete.
Fees: $23,333.00 (Books are included in the fees for common units only, e.g. anatomy and physiology. Homeopathy books will need to be purchased by the student. The College will provide a booklist).
Fees for 1st year are $5899.00.
An enrolment fee of $100 is payable upon enrolment. The enrolment fee is in addition to the course fees. (This is a once only payment.) Please see the 2012 Course Guide for more information about payment options.
Award: Successful students are awarded an Advanced Diploma of Homoeopathy.
For more information on this course at Island Health College, please download our Advanced Diploma of Homoeopathy Training and Assessment Strategy.
The following information is taken from the website of the Australian Homoeopathic Association.
Homœopathy is a complete system of medicine developed by German physician and chemist, Dr Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), based on the principle of "let likes cure likes". This law or principle is based on a long held belief as far back as Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, and other ancient healers such as Paracelsus, that substances that produce symptoms in a healthy individual can be used to treat similar symptoms in a sick person. Thus homœopathic treatment is believed to stimulate the body's ability to fight infection and susceptibility to disease.
An example of this principle is coffee. Some people are very sensitive to its effects and can be over stimulated by taking it. They may experience overly heightened mental and physical alertness, and become unusually reactive to normal stimuli such as sounds and smells, etc. When a person presents at a homœopathic clinic with symptoms of insomnia, headache, irritability and an over stimulated nervous system, Coffea cruda may be chosen to alleviate their condition, prepared according to special homœopathic principles. It has been shown that this may settle the symptoms of insomnia in such cases.
Homœopathy is now used worldwide, with a 200 year history of clinical experience. It is recognised by the World Health Organisation as a valid form of healthcare.
It may be used in the treatment of chronic illness, acute conditions and minor accidents requiring first aid.
Homeopaths work in our community as primary health care practitioners who treat a wide range of health conditions using individualised homeopathic treatment.