Ordinance Governing Homoeopathy (Post Graduate Degree Course)

Purpose:

Basic Objectives of education and training during Post Graduate courses in Homoeopathy are to train a basic Homoeopathic Graduate in the field of Homoeopathic Materia Medica and to produce a better healer an excellent thinker, a research scholar and an efficient teacher in Homoeopathy and achieve highest standards in the system of Homoeopathy.
Aims
A Post Graduate in Homoeopathic Materia Medica shall be able to -

1. 
   Recognize the need of physical, social mental and spiritual health care of the sick in the spirit of Organon of Medicine
   
2. 
   Obtain competency in providing complete health care (physical, mental, social and spiritual) to the needy, so as to achieve a permanent restoration of health in gentle manner as quoted in Organon of Medicine.
   
3. 
   Investigate what is to be cured in disease and what is curative in the various medicines in order to understand the scope and limitations of Homoeopathy.
   
4. 
   Obtain the communicative and interpersonal skills to communicate and interact with health care teams.
   
5. 
   Have a profound knowledge in Homoeopathic Materia Medica including rare and uncommon remedies in order to achieve restoration of health at any levels of sickness.
   
6. 
   Adopt a scientific temper and unbiased approach to augment self-knowledge to improve the quality of treatment throughout his professional life.
   
7. 
   Be able to coordinate the recent advances in science with his knowledge of Homoeopathy, so as to reflect better art of healing.
   
8. 
   Develop an open mind to update him by self- study, attending courses, conferences and seminars relevant to the specialty.
   

Objectives

At the end of Post GraduateTraining in M.D., in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, the PG Scholor shall be able to –

1. 
   Have the high degree of proficiency both in theoretical and practical aspects of Homoeopathic Materia Medica.
   
2. 
   Be a Competent Homoeopathic Physician who has capabilities of assessing, planning and treating patients and give expertise opinion and consultation services as and when called for.
   
3. 
   Develop capabilities to overcome the difficulties in cases with paucity of symptoms through proficient knowledge of Homoeopathic Materia Medica.
   
4. 
   Develop a Compassionate and positive attitude towards the sick and maintain high moral and ethical standards.
   
5. 
   Keep him/her self updated with latest developments, researches, newly proved drugs
   
6. 
   Be able to positively contribute to the issues pertaining to the prevention of diseases, promotion of health and develop capability to offer His expertise in national Health related issues and in epidemics as and when required.
   

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The curriculum has been designed with the objective of delivering to the candidate the entire experience of basic and applied aspects of Homoeopathic Materia Medica. It will include the basic philosophical background and conceptual framework necessary to understand the different approaches and there clinical applications.

The curriculum of MD-Part I deal with the understanding of the basic science and philosophy of Materia Medica. This Part will help the student to understand the functional, structural, psychological and causative aspects of Materia Medica. It will also give him insight in to Clinical Materia medica.

In Part II, It should ensure that the student is capable of erecting and understanding the PORTRAITS of the drugs, be able to erect the portrait of the Patient in actual live situation and develop the skills of proper identification of the SIMILIMUM in line with the principles of Homoeopathy. We should ensure that the student attains the real proficiency in Identifying, planning, and executing proper line of treatment in true letter and spirit of Homoeopathy.

It should be ensured that he becomes a good CLINICIAN and a true Homoeopath to promote Homoeopathy as EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE.
Course Content
PART-I
The student shall posses the knowledge of all drugs used in CLINICAL practice. The study of Materia Medica should focus on

1. 
   Basic Materia Medica
   

1. 
   The nature, scope and limitation of Materia Medica
   
2. 
   The sources and construction of Materia medica
   
3. 
   Comparative materia medica and compare with other systems of Medicine.
   
4. 
   Study of Materia Medica Pura to understand pure effects of the Homoeopathic drugs and also study the effects from other source books.
   
5. 
   The student shall possess a clear and Conceptual understanding of the following
   
   1. 
      Natural and artificial diseases.
      
   2. 
      Health and physiological action of homoeopathic drugs.
      
   3. 
      Concept of Causation of diseases and their utility in understanding Homoeopathic Materia medica.
      
   4. 
      Concept of Drug proving and conduct drug proving of new or partially proved drugs
      
   5. 
      Detailed understanding of evolution of a personality in all the planes such as mental, physical, social and spiritual development.
      
   6. 
      Develop skills of proper communication.
      
6. 
   Study of the Homoeopathic drugs as per the list ( Sr no 001 to 200 from the list)
   

PART- II

2. 
   Comperative and Clinico-pathological Materia Medica
   

1. 
   Clinico-pathological correlations of the diseases and integrating pathogenesis in study of Hom Materia Medica.
   

2. 
   Clinical Materia Medica and its practical application at bedside.
   

3. 
   Evolution of Materia medica and influence of concepts of earlier times on the construction of Hom Materia Medica.
   
4. 
   Scope & Limitation of the current state of knowledge of Homoeopathic Materia Medica with the demands of Clinical Practice and Education.
   

5. 
   Sources of Hom Materia Medica, Drug proving and Collection of symptoms.
   

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