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The Seattle School of Homeopathy offers

teacherThe Comprehensive Program

The Comprehensive Program is the cornerstone of the Seattle School of Homeopathy. This course sequence, intended for licensed and unlicensed students alike, spans ten three-day weekends per year over three years, and provides extensive preparation for national certification in homeopathy. Successful completion of all requirements of the first three years leads to the SSH diploma. Optional post-graduate fourth year offerings may be taken by program graduates as well as by other advanced practitioners from the larger community.

YEAR 1. The "Foundation Year" of the Comprehensive Program lays a strong pragmatic and theoretical basis in classical homeopathy. Topics covered include philosophy, history, pharmacy, potency selection, proving and research, materia medica, repertory use, case taking, first aid and acute care, chronic disease and miasms, case analysis, and case management. Students may take the Foundation Year alone, or as part of the three year sequence; priority is given to Comprehensive Program applicants.

YEAR 2. The Intermediate Year reinforces and expands on all topics from Year 1, presenting the materia medica of a large number of remedies via a highly efficient thematic organization. The first three weekends of Year 2 will feature cases cured by remedies derived from mineral sources; the next two weekends feature cases cured by remedies from animal sources; and weekends six through eight feature cases cured by remedies from plant sources. In the spring of Year 2, course material is organized by clinical topics, which may include such topics as "Homeopathic Emergency Medicine," "The Homeopathic Care of Children," and "A Homeopathic Approach to Women's Health Problems and Infertility." The year 2 curriculum is rounded out by systematic training in case analysis through the "Homeopathic Virtual Clinic".

YEAR 3 is a live clinical year, during which students will have the chance to consolidate their learning and build confidence through supervised practice and discussion of clinical, ethical, legal, and practice-management issues. Students will also have the opportunity in year 3 to work on their own clinical cases under skilled one-on-one mentorship. School graduation occurs at the conclusion of the clinical year.

YEAR 4 is an optional post-graduate year, focusing on integrating innovative contemporary approaches to case-taking, case-analysis, and material medica study with time-tested classical approaches.

ANATOMY, PATHOLOGY, AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY. An integral part of the Comprehensive Program is the 90-hour, problem-centered "Pathophysiology for Homeopaths" course. This course gives students the foundation in pathophysiology essential to making accurate homeopathic assessments, as well as to making timely and appropriate referrals to other medical or healing professionals or emergency facilities. It also provides excellent preparation for the medical science portion of the national certification exam in homeopathy (CHC). The course may be taken independently of the Comprehensive Program, by permission of the Director.

Part time options: In addition to "Pathophysiology" , "The Homeopathic Care of Animals," and second year clinical topic weekends, certain weekends may be taken out of context of the Comprehensive Curriculum by qualified students with director's permission, on a space-available basis.

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There are many levels of practicing homeopathy, including occasional first aid prescribing, integrative medicine, and full-time constitutional prescribing. Good teachers will help the student find the level that best fits their needs, while pointing the direction to further studies when they are ready.

– Todd Rowe, MD, CCH