ACHENA Approved for 20 Hours - Category 3

Anatomy, Physiology & Pathology Module 5

This 100 hour course is presented in 5 modules of 10 weeks each. Modules may be purchased and taken separately, but must be taken sequentially, as content builds upon previous modules. Each module includes:

• 20 live contact hours (10 2-hour recorded (live) sessions)
• 60 hours individual study time (6 hours of self-guided study per session)
  
  

The course may be attended by participating in the pre-recorded, self-paced modules. With a total 100 hours of direct online instruction in live Webinar sessions*, supplemented by an additional 300 hours of guided Online and Offline self-paced study, this course is designed to exceed the Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology requirements prerequisite for CHC certification.

*All webinar sessions are available as streaming video on our course support site for review by participants
at their convenience.

To receive Homeopathic Education Hours: You must watch the recorded sessions, and complete all quizzes with a score of 80% or better within your 4 years access to this course. Please be sure to print and safeguard your Letter Of Attendance at the conclusion of the course. Partial course credit is not given for WHN courses.

Your participation requires:

~ 10 2-hour pre-recorded webinar sessions
~ An estimated 6 hours / week of guided self-paced study, including:

• Reading in assigned texts & online references
  
• Online quiz completion
• Online forum discussion
• Occasional learning-based assignments
  
  
  

Topics include:

• An introduction to the medical sciences
• Historical perspectives on medical science - humoral theory, materia pecans, the healing power of nature, nutrition; the medical systems of Hippocrates, Sydenham, Boerhaave, Brown, Hufeland; the births of homeopathy and of contemporary “conventional” medicine in the context of the age of enlightenment and the scientific revolution
• Mechanism, reductionism, Cartesian dualism, animism, vitalism, and dynamism in historical & contemporary perspective
• A complex systems perspective on medicine
  
• Realms/levels of study of the organism - anatomy, histology, cellular biology, physiology, biological chemistry, behavior, psychology
  
• A review of classical anatomy; its roles in initiation of the health professional, and in informing effective therapeutic means
  
  
• A study of the major organ system, tissues, and physiologic processes in health & disease
• Understanding contemporary medical investigations - radiology, endoscopy, ECG, laboratory testing - what they can tell us, what their limitations are in clinical practice
• Mind/body dualism; the effect of dualism on contemporary medicine; Hahnemann's perspective; and a proposed reconciliation
• The classification and naming of disease; nosological systems past & present; pathological systems of classification; advantages and misadventures in disease naming and classification
• Infectious disease - germ theory examined historically, in contemporary conventional practice, and in the context of complex systems theory; Hahnemann's perspective and implications for homeopathic practice
• Zoonoses and the cultural history and origins of infectious disease; implications for the study of emerging disease
• Immunology
• Genetics, heredity, and the evolving field of epigenetics
• Health & disease of the mind; the impact of Cartesian dualism and post-Cartesian solutions
  
  

In 1867, Adolph Lippe eliminated the Chair of Pathology at the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, asserting that “Pathology teaches us only such symptoms as must by necessity always be present in a given form of disease, are characteristic of the disease only, but do not include, and of necessity, cannot include the peculiar, extraordinary symptoms of every individual.” - prompting Constantine Hering to resign, and found the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. Lippe's views may be true of pathology adopted blindly directly from conventional practice, with full adoption of its attendant philosophies and assumptions. But we are not prevented from claiming a more carefully obtained knowledge of the organism in health and disease from being useful to our profession, unburdened by these limiting perspectives.

Required Resources:

Kapit & Elson, The Anatomy Coloring Book, 4th ed.; isbn-13: 978-0-321-83201-6

Kapit, Macey & Meisami, The Physiology Coloring Book, 2nd ed.; isbn-13: 978-0321832016
(although “coloring book” might imply a primitive level of coverage, these extremely serious and thorough texts are heavily researched, and are widely used in conventional medical curricula).

Additional text and online resources will be identified as the course progresses.