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Ontario Homeopathic Association (OHA)

The Ontario Homeopathic Association (OHA) was founded in 1992 to re-establish Homeopathy as a recognized health care system in Ontario, and to form a united and regulated body of qualified practitioners who provide safe, effective and professional homeopathic health care to the public.

The OHA has established the highest standards of care for the Homeopathic Medical profession in the province of Ontario. Professional ethics and standards of this discipline bind all members.

The OHA has been actively involved in the regulation of Homeopathy in the province of Ontario and is extremely proud of the passing of the “Homeopathy Act of 2007”.  With this act, there will be transparency and accountability of educators and practitioners, because it is important to protect the public who use homeopathy.  This is why the OHA has implemented such high standards for its members and why it has given special accreditation privileges to graduates of the Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine.  

For more information on the OHA, please visit: www.ontariohomeopath.com

CONGRATULATIONS to the GRADUATES of CLASS of 2014 !

 

 

 

OCHM Annual Open House Thursday April 24, 2014

 

OCHM Annual Open House

 

Please join us for an informative evening

Spring of Homeopathy

On

Thursday April 24, 2014

6:00 – 8:00pm

 

Find out about our programs, courses & teaching clinic.

 

Meet our staff, faculty, alumni & students.

 

344 Dupont Street, 2^nd floor Classroom

 

Wine & Refreshments provided.

 

To register:

- email info@ochm.ca or

- call 416-535-5995

CONGRATULATIONS to the Class of 2013 – the 13th Graduating Class of OCHM!

The number 13 is the lucky one for the 2013 graduating class of Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine. The ceremony took place on June 27^rd, 2013 at the Charbonnel Lounge of the University of Toronto. Faculty, administration, families and friends joined 21 proud graduates for the convocation ceremony and reception. OCHM staff wishes its graduates success in their practice and fulfilment of their aspirations in this noble profession:

Alysha Andersen Michelle Lorainne Berentschot Susan Rosa Bita Krisztina Csőzik Melissa Ieraci Cheryl Kavanagh Sina Morshed Terra Yott Amur Alexandra Aponte Francia Barrera

Abdelkarim El Alami El Hlimi Manmohan Gill Sukhdev Singh Kooner Natalya Kravzov Rutva Mamtora Sunil Monga Adrienne M. Na Zuzanna Tabak Sharlini Udayakumar Guia Vita - Melendres Ljilja Mandrapa

 

Dean Luba Plotkina, a co-founder of OCHM, addresses graduates, their friends and families. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hooding Ceremony of Guia Vita-Meledres by Dean L. Plotkina and Head of Homeopathy Mirsada Vins.

 

 

 

 

 

Boiron scholarships for excellence in studies of Homeopathy and Clinical Internship are presented to OCHM graduate Zuzanna Tabak, one of the six recipients of 2013 scholarship awards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keynote address by Wangari Muriuki, Chair of Registration Committee of the Transitional Council of Homeopaths of Ontario.

 

 

2013 valedictorians Suzan Bita and Sharlini Udayakumar ND, address the audience.

 

Class of 2013 takes Homeopathic oath.

OCHM graduates presented with Certificate of Achievement from Ontario MPP Olivia Chaw.

 

Friends and families are on hand to share in the proud moment and cheer the graduates.

 

 

 

 

 

Fellowship Diploma Program

The Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine’s teaching clinic is a key component in homeopathic training.  This unique and rigorous clinical internship has been in operation for over 13 years and has served to effectively train competent Homeopaths.   

As an OCHM clinical intern you will:

*        Be provided with live patients to meet your clinical requirements (at no additional cost)

*        Be exposed to a wide variety of chronic and acute conditions, developing the skills to practice safely and competently

*        EACH of your cases will be supervised and evaluated by our senior clinicians who are also experienced Homeopaths with a minimum of 8 years supervisory experience and 15 years of experience in private practice

We are the only school that is able and proud to be offering this type of clinical training for Homeopaths in Ontario. Our teaching clinic runs on weekdays and weekends all year round with flexible hours to suit both our students and patients.  We offer an invaluable service to the community and have treated thousands of patients over the last 13 years.

 

A Certificate of Completion will be awarded for each of the modules 1 to 3 

 

Module 1          Introduction to the clinic and 5 observation cases               

Module 2         Ten New Patient Cases and 50 follow up cases (must be completed over the course of 4 months)

Module 3         25 New Patient cases and 50 follow up cases (must be completed over the course of 10 months)

A Fellowship Diploma in Homeopathic Medicine (Clinic internship) FDHM(C) will be awarded upon successful completion of the module 4.

Module 4         50 New Patient cases and 100 follow up cases (must be completed over the course of 21 months)

One Day Certificate Course

A ONE DAY CERTIFICATE COURSE

Due to the overwhelming positive feedback we have received about our exceedingly popular information sessions and free lecture series, we have put together TWO  perfect ONE DAY courses for you! 

Homeopathy and self care

Tuesday, Sept 10, from 6 pm to 10pm

Cost $20.00 includes snacks and refreshments

Homeopathy and colds/flu 

Saturday, Oct 5 9:30 am to 4:00 pm

Cost $25.00 includes lunch

Both cources are presented at 344 Dupont Street, Classroom #1

ALL PARTICIPANTS will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance

Register: Please call 416.535.5995 or email: info@ochm.ca with your
interest in attending.  Please RSVP as soon as you can as seating is extremely limited.

 

A unique learning experience at OCHM’s teaching clinic.

When I was a student at OCHM I looked forward to Wednesdays. These were my clinic days and I couldn’t get enough of them, being in clinic made homeopathy real to me. I saw it heal peoples wounds, relieve their suffering, feel better about themselves; in clinic we changed people’s lives. 

Through my 3 years at the live teaching clinic I was continuously challenged to expand my learning, become a better listener, and fine tune my prescribing. This wasn’t because of grades; it was because real live people were depending on me to become the very best homeopath I could be. Nothing could have replaced the learning that took place there and I am grateful that was able to take my first steps as a prescriber under the guidance of our exceptional team of clinic supervisors.

Today is Thursday and that means that our teaching clinic is alive and bustling with students and patients. I asked a few of them what they love about clinic and here is what they had to say:

• "It gives us the opportunity to discuss cases with staff and other students and share resources"- Rachel Asamoah. Senior student
• "It is an unparalleled experience in learning classical Homeopathy." – Stuart Hamilton. Senior student
• "It gives us a chance to apply knowledge to real patients." - Michelle Berentschot. 3^rd year student
• "It’s exciting to see the remedies act in real patients." – Debbie Pellegrini. 2^nd year student
• "I like when I’m sitting there, using my brain to match symptoms in a patient to what I have learned. It’s not as dry as reading it in a book." – Krisztina Czozika senior student
• "I am gaining confidence interacting with patients." – Terra Yott. 3^rd year student
• "All the teachers are so helpful." Amur Aponte- 2^nd year student
• "I like having the support of the supervisors to guide me through difficult cases"- Melissa Ieraci. 3^rd year student
•  "I think it is so important that the students have a hands on experience in a supervised setting. It is a very different experience when you are doing it yourself." - Elizabeth Betker, M.D. (Germany), D.H.M.S. Clinic Supervisor

To book an appointment with these or any of our other student practitioners contact the OCHM teaching clinic at 416-535-5995. All cases are fully supervised by a qualified homeopath.

Want to learn more about becoming a homeopath? Request an information package today!

Become inspired. Become a Homeopath

Last Thursday we had the pleasure of hosting a free lecture "Homeopathy: Past Present and Future" by our very own head of Homeopathy, Mirsada Vins. We would like to thank everyone who came out for this very special event and make it such a huge success! It is always so share with other people how Homeopathy can change your life.  

 Homeopathy is not just powerful medicine, its empowering medicine. It creates a dynamic healing relationship between the practitioner and patient in which the work of healing can take place. Through Homeopathic treatment patients learn to take ownership of their health and honor their body both in illness and in health through acknowledgment and validation of the way they personally experience disease. It is because of the unique relationship created in the course of homeopathic treatment that many patients feel, often for the first time that they can take charge of their life and feel better. In the same way that Homeopathic remedies stimulate a healing response from the patient’s body, a Homeopath facilitates an empowerment of the patient through the case taking process.Working as a Homeopath is truly rewarding and beautiful work, work that inspires others to live life to the fullest. 

Would you like to learn more about working as a Homeopath?

Come join us for a FREE info session on how you can start a career in Homeopathy

 Wed Sept 19, 2012, 6:30pm

The information sessions are held at our campus, located in downtown Toronto, minutes from the Dupont subway station; located at 332 Dupont Street, just west of Spadina, in the heart of the Annex.

Our Blog

The flu

Homeopathy can be very useful when it comes to the flu. The trick is to use the right remedy at the right time during a flu or cold so that you can either head it off entirely or palliate the symptoms. If you

can get the right remedy and take it before the symptoms continue, often the cold stops right there. When a remedy does not help to stop or help greatly with symptoms, it means that the remedy is not the right one for the symptoms or the stage of the illness.

Here are a few easy ways to choose the most widely used remedies for colds and flus. If you are interested in learning more about flus and colds or how to use homeopathy for yourself and your family, look into taking our intro to homeopathy courses offered at the college. 

Oscilococcinum is a widely available remedy that is sold at many pharmacies and can be used at the very first sign of a cold or flu. That very first tickle in the throat or whatever you typically notice when you first get sick is the sign to start taking this remedy. It should stop the progress of symptoms if you have caught it in time.

Aconite is the second runner up for the very first stages of a flu or cold. This remedy will help a very quickly progressing illness but again, you have to get it right away. The most important part of illnesses that respond to this remedy is that it will progress very  quickly and that it is a very painful and begins suddenly often with a sudden high fever.

Camphor: People needing this remedy will be very very very cold and usually start with sneezing. If you have the combination fo sneezing and feeling super cold especially with paleness, camphor is the remedy of choice.

When these two don't cut it and the symptoms have moved past the first stage, you have now moved onto a different bunch of remedy choices.

Ferr phos

This is still the first few days of an illness and is heading towards a chest cold. There may be fever and heat but without chills. Usually with a red face.

Gelsemium:

Try this remedy if you have chills up and down the spine and the cold or flu has been progressing slowly for the past few days and you feel tired and heavy usually with a very full head.

Bryonia:

You are dry! Your throat is dry, your nose is dry, your skin is dry and even your eyeballs hurt from movement. 

There are many remedies that may be better suited, but this is a little cheat sheet to help you on your way to feeling better soon. 

Joy Burlton BHSc DHMHS

Classical Homeopathy
www.joyspath.com
joy@joyspath.com
647-828-2049

 

Skin problems and homeopathy

Eczema, psoriasis, Impetigo and a host of other skin problems can be dealt with using homeopathy and have been for the past 200 years. Some respond more quickly than others, especially depending on how long you have had the condition for, but the great thing about homeopathy is that it can sometimes help with conditions that do not necessarily respond to pharmaceutical drugs. 

When a homeopath is choosing a remedy to help with your skin condition, they will look at the skin itself, but also look at when it started, what were the initial symptoms, were there any life stresses that may have brought it on, or perhaps affected your immune system so that the symptoms became more prominent. They will also ask you about your general health and what makes the symptoms better or worse. There are a few remedies that are well known to help with the skin, such as sulphur or Silicea, but using these remedies without a consultation from a trained homeopath, especially for skin conditions, can result in unwanted flare ups. 

Symptoms, even without a diagnosis can be treated using hundreds of years of experience to guide the homeopath to the right remedy. It matters if the skin erupted on the left or the right side, or if it is worse with warm or cold, better or worse with sunlight, these are called modalities and will help the homeopath find the best fit for a remedy for your specific skin issue from thousands of remedies.  Once a well matching remedy is found, your body will be able to respond to the disturbance or imbalance in your immune system that was producing the skin symptoms and the process of healing begins. 

If you or someone you know suffer from a skin condition, we welcome you to attend our teaching clinic http://www.ochm.ca/clinic-at-ochm.html

 

Joy Burlton BHSc DHMHS

Classical Homeopathy
www.joyspath.com
joy@joyspath.com
647-828-2049

 

 

OCHM holds regular information sessions at it campus, located at 332 Dupont Street, just west of Spadina in downtown Toronto, minutes from the Dupont subway station in the heart of the Annex.

 

HOW TO GET A FULL SET OF BOOKS FREE - $500 VALUE

If your application is approved by June 1st for September enrollment, on registration day you will receive a full set of homeopathy books free of charge, a $500 value. 

Eligibility

Applicants applying to the Homeopathic Medicine & Health Sciences Program must have their Ontario Secondary School Diploma with the equivalent of OACs in Biology and Chemistry, and at least 2 or 3 years of post secondary education from a college or university. A Bachelor's degree is strongly recommended. You can apply online today.

Those students who do not have the above requirements may apply under the "Special Student" status (contact the office for details). Applicants must have a warm and compassionate nature and must possess the need to be a healer in a positive and nurturing manner and to be continuously, personally evolving.

 

Application Deadline

For September enrolment, applicants are encouraged to submit applications by August 1st and by December 1st for January enrolment. Late applications cannot be guaranteed. Contact the Admissions Office for current deadline.

The application fee is waived for applications submitted by June 1st (for September enrolment) and November 1st (for January enrolment).

Interviews

Once the Director of Admissions has received all of the required application information, the applying student will be contacted for an interview with the Dean and the Director of Admissions. The personal interview will ascertain whether the program is suited to the interests of each applicant. If the interview is satisfactory the applicant will be offered a seat in the program.

The interview is an integral part of the admission process as it will ascertain the character of the applicant, determine their motivation for applying to the program, assess their communication and interpersonal skills as well as allow them to ask any final questions they might have about the College.  At OCHM, we encourage an open dialogue between administration and students as we feel it is the only way for each party to grow and develop into an integral part of the Homeopathic community. 

 

Advanced Standing

Those students who wish to be exempt from certain subjects at the Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine must produce transcripts, a letter and an outline of previous course(s) from their previous accredited educational institutions verifying their request. The Dean and the Professor must approve the application. If approval is not granted, the student is eligible to write a challenge exam for those subjects.

All courses approved with advanced standing will not be calculated into a student’s GPA.

 

Application

The Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine is dedicated to providing all students with equal opportunities as well a safe and respectful environment to learn and enjoy all aspects of student life at the college.  We look forward to receiving your application and seeing you in person. 

The application form may be submitted or printed online.

Please complete the form, sign and date it and return it to the Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine to the attention of the Director of Admissions.

Director of Admissions
Ontario College of Homeopathic Medicine
332 Dupont Street 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
M5R 1V9 
Telephone: (416) 535-5995 
Fax: (416) 535-2964

Please include the following: 

 

1. $50.00 non-refundable Application Fee. Waived if submitted by June 1st for September enrolment and November 1st for January enrolment
2. Resumé or Life Sketch. 
3. An essay on why you wish to become a Homeopath (optional). 
4. Two letters of reference -- Professional: Homeopath, professor, employer, supervisor; Personal: friend, colleague, etc. 
5. Transcripts from previous educational institutions.

 

The decision to accept an applicant into the program at OCHM is based on the above criteria as well as on a personal interview with the Dean.

For September enrolment, applicants are encouraged to submit their applications no later than August 1st and by December 1st for January enrolment. Late applications cannot be guaranteed and are subject to availability.  A $100 fee applies to late applicants. Contact the Admissions Office for special consideration: 416-535-5995.

Please note that meeting the admission requirements does not guarantee an offer of admission into OCHM.  Each applicant will be considered on an individual basis and it is up to the College to deem the applicant a good fit for the program.

*Admission requirements are subject to change without notice.