One of the keys to our students success after graduation, is the knowledge and experience they gain through both our Internship and Externship Clinics.
These dedicated and masterful Homeopaths, make up our incomparable Clinical Supervisors.
The CCHM Internship Clinic is an observational clinic, where students have the opportunity to watch a master homeopath take live cases with real patients. During these internship clinics, students are encouraged to ask questions to gain the insight and perspective needed to manage their own cases. Students are able to observe the homeopath navigate the case taking process in order to identify the patient symptoms that need to be addressed and treated by the homeopathic remedy. By watching this live interaction in a clinical environment, students get exposed to the communication skills needed in order to feel confident in providing care to a patient.
CCHM’s Clinical Externship is in essence a Homeopathic apprenticeship. Through this process, you will be applying everything you have learned during your studies and Clinical Internship towards your own patients, under the careful observation + guidance of our Externship supervisors.
These esteemed colleagues have a minimum of 5 years of experience. They are all registered Homeopaths with CHO. And, they have all been specifically trained by CCHM to provide a very particular type of mentoring experience for our students
The Role Supervisors Play In Your Training
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Two Fold Clinical Training
1) Internship Clinic
The CCHM Internship Clinic is an observational clinic, where students have the opportunity to watch a master homeopath take live cases with real patients. During these internship clinics, students are encouraged to ask questions to gain the insight and perspective needed to manage their own cases. Students are able to observe the homeopath navigate the case taking process in order to identify the patient symptoms that need to be addressed and treated by the homeopathic remedy. By watching this live interaction in a clinical environment, students get exposed to the communication skills needed in order to feel confident in providing care to a patient.
After each clinical session students submit their own case write-up and analysis. As a result of this, students are provided direct feedback from our clinical experts. This assessment is an excellent opportunity to have an experienced practicing homeopath provide feedback and constructive criticism on your analysis, as well as provide insights and knowledge that will be useful to you as a future homeopath. This is an invaluable opportunity to build your confidence and competency in case analysis and remedy selection. By exposing students to a diverse range of cases, our program equips them with the skills to navigate complexities, think critically, and approach each patient as a unique individual. This experiential learning not only builds clinical proficiency but also fosters empathy and compassion, essential traits of an effective homeopath.
The internship clinic experience provides over 100+ hours of homeopathic observation and analysis. Going through this clinical training model, prepares students for our Clinical Externship, where they apply their newly gained homeopathic skills and insights towards their own patients.
2) Clinical Externship
CCHM’s Clinical Externship is in essence a Homeopathic apprenticeship. Through this process, you will be applying everything you have learned during your studies and Clinical Internship towards your own patients. Each student is supervised by a professional homeopath who will mentor them through their own cases.
The first step of the Externship is for students to market themselves as homeopathic students to find new patients in their own communities. In essence, these are the student’s patients and they can continue to work with them after graduation.
The people you treat during these cases can become the first patients of your homeopathic practice after you graduate.
Students are responsible for treating these patients homeopathically under the supervision of the homeopathic supervisor. Each student will take their patients’ case(s) and write a full homeopathic case write-up and analysis to the same degree as the Internship Clinic. This case analysis is then submitted to the homeopathic supervisor along with the student’s case notes. The supervisor will review, provide feedback on the student’s case-taking and analysis, then confirm whether or not you have a strong homeopathic case for remedy selection. Only when the student and supervisor both feel confident in the case analysis and remedy selection, will the supervisor give the student the ‘green-light’ to proceed. Student’s will advise their patient of the remedy selection and give them instructions on how to take the remedy. It is then the responsibility of the student to observe any changes or symptoms that the patient may experience through follow-up consultations, referring back to the supervisor through every step of the process to confirm the next-steps in the homeopathic treatment.
Through the Internship and Externship clinic training, we provide our students the number of case-hours necessary to meet the clinical requirements of both the College of Homeopaths of Ontario as well as the Council for Homeopathic Certification (*Hours are calculated using the recommended formula from CHO and CHC respectively).
Practice makes perfect, which is why at CCHM we provide students with an abundance of practical experience. Our clinical training stands as a testament to our commitment to producing competent, compassionate, and confident homeopathic practitioners. When our students graduate from CCHM they have all the skills and assets they need to have a successful homeopathic career. Through hands-on experience, personalized mentorship, and exposure to diverse cases, we prepare our students to embrace their professional journey with poise and expertise.
Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey that combines knowledge with practical experience? Join us at the Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine and be a part of a legacy of proficient homeopathic practitioners. Your journey begins here.
Ode To Being An Externship Supervisor
Students are always very concerned about their first Externship patient - did I ask the right questions? Did I get enough relevant symptoms? Shall I record the initial consultation? ShallI type while they talk? Can I hand write? How can I take notes and listen well plus ask the needed questions? OMG I have 30 pages of notes WHAT DO I DO NOW? Where do I start?
All of this comes together with a the careful guidance of a supervisor, who was once a student themselves. We have all been through the program + can speak from experience.
We recommend that students attend at least 2 internship clinics before taking their own private patient consultation. This is so that the student can get a feel for how the internship clinic practitioner takes a consultation, and how an analysis and write up of the case will look.
Externship is where the student will bring together the skills that they have learned. Once they are ready to take a case, submit the analysis and prescription, s/he will meet with their supervisor to discuss the work. There will be times that a student is asked to go back to the patient to ask for more detail. This might feel embarrassing for a student but I have never come across an unwilling patient. These first patients are also typically friends and/or family who have been struggling with symptoms for years without relief , and this may be their first experience of Homeopathy.
It is wonderful to work with students, to encourage them and note how they refine their skills and gain confidence. I often see many successful responses to remedies which is always a joy. We all learn from each other so sharing and being part of that growth is very fulfilling.
