Fourth year
In your final year you'll focus on gaining all the tools necessary for professional practice. These include advanced clinical skills, supervision, complex casework, case management, expanded materia medica and evolving reflective practice. Business skills and practice management will also be a highlight of your fourth year.
Fourth year syllabus
- Module: Advanced materia medica and Treatment management
- Advanced methodologies:- Sankaran, Scholten
- Sarcodes and tautopathic remedies
- Research into new remedies and provings
- Advanced therapeutic remedies
- Critical appraisal of materia medica
- Comparative materia medica for complex health disorders
- Reflective practice and patient management
- Advanced case analysis
- Reflection and critical analysis of remedy reaction
- Drug withdrawal techniques
- Designing treatment approaches for complex cases and advanced pathology
- Module: Proposition module
- Audit of research protocol
- Critical evaluation of literature
- Synthesise information and communicate research findings
- Reflection on research findings
- Critically evaluate appropriate literature pertinent to the subject chosen
- Reflect on overall research process
- Module: Clinical training II
- Complex prescribing
- Heavy drug pathology
- Advanced interview and case taking skills
- Evaluation and refection of prescriptions
- Use of appropriate methodologies
- Case analysis with critical review
- Patient management
- Business plan and skills
- Practice building and managing a small business
- Transference and boundary issues
- Self-reflection and supervision
- Continuing professional development