Academy for Homeopathic Studies Courses

▾ Resources

• The Anatomy Coloring Book; ISBN-10: 0321832019

• The Physiology Coloring Book; ISBN-10: 0321036638

• a (free) online account at The Khan Academy - https://www.khanacademy.org

• other (free) online resources will be recommended in the course of study

▾ Syllabus

▾ General structure

▾ 60 weekly 1½-2-hour Live online sessions, taught by Will Taylor M.D., as interactive webinar; broken into 610-week modules

• Tuesdays 4:30-6pm US Pacific time (occasional skipped weeks, scheduled between modules & to account for holidays & instructor schedule)

• supplemented with prerecorded video sessions & materials from other online resources (Khan Academy &c.)

• beginning January 17  2017

▾ all Live sessions will be recorded  & posted as streaming video on the course support site, for review or for self-paced participation

(although self-paced participation is provided as an option for missed sessions or for the full series, this is intended to be a live-participation course, with instructor interaction)

• Anatomy, Physiology & Pathology will be integrated within each session, rather than taught as discrete & unrelated topics

• Throughout, I will present the living organism as a complex adaptive system, investigating what we might glean from the simple local interactions / reductionist model that characterizes contemporary medical science, while also investigating the pitfalls of this philosophy and the insights that a complex systems perspective might offer

• As it is essential to appreciate how we have come to believe what we do about the operations of the living organism, in order to have confidence in & generate meaningful questions about those beliefs, I’ll take an historical perspective throughout; not so much a survey of names & specific contributions, as a broad view of the development of our understanding, appreciation, & the pregnant questions posed to current medical science.

▾ We’ll employ Two Online Platforms

• a Webinar service for Live presentations, using Citrix GoToWebinar, providing live video- and screencasting, and live instructor/participant interaction

▾ this (the courses.homstudies.com) course support site, an asynchronous eLearning platform, hosting:

• downloadable handouts, resources

• an online asynchronous discussion forum to supplement live Q&A during sessions

• online participant journals, for “virtual office-hours” interaction with the instructor

• streaming video recordings of live sessions, for review & makeup of missed sessions

• online electronically-graded quizzes - for self-review & assessment; focussing on the learning objectives for each session

• downloadable participation documents, contingent on participation & passing (80%) quiz scores on each segment of the course

▾ Interaction/Discussion:

▾ Between Live Sessions

▾ Module 1

• wk1 - Orientation to the Online Platforms, resources, live & asynchronous interaction

▾ wk2 - History of European Medicine, Hippocrates - 18th-century Vienna

• Hippocratic/Galenic dogma

• Alexandria

• Persian developments in the Middle East & Andalusia; Avicenna, Rhazes, et.al.

• The great translation projects in Bagdad & Córdoba, Persian preservation of GrecoRoman culture & reintroduction to medieval Europe

• Galen's pneuma; 4 elements, Hippocratic humors

▾ wk3 - Renaissance & Enlightenment

• The rediscovery of Greco-Roman medicine in medieval Europe

• Renaissance discoveries building on Hippocratic/Galenic dogma

• development of iatromechanism; iatromechanism, vitalism, dynamism as guiding philosophies; “iatromechanism” & “scientific medicine”; the mind/body problem; Leibniz, Hahnemann & Dynamism; a complex systems perspective

• wk4 - the heart & circulation ; Galen to Harvey, the pulmonary circulation

▾ wk5 - The heart, myocardium, mechanics; chambers, valves

• congenital heart disease, valvular disease

• wk6 - the heart, conduction, ECG

• Wk7 - The heart; coronary circulation, inotropy, Starling equation, autonomic regulation, arrhythmias

• Wk 8 - Heart disease; Coronary artery disease, heart failure, myocarditis

• wk9 - the systemic circulation; arteries, arterioles

• wk8 - blood pressure regulation, antihypertensive meds

• Wk9 - blood lipids, atherosclerosis, peripheral arterial disease, coronary artery disease, atherosclerotic stroke

• wk10 - Veins, venous capacitance, diseases of the veins

▾ Module 2

• Wk 1 - capillaries, peripheral exchange, starling's forces

• Wk 2 - extracellular fluid, the lymphatic system, lymph nodes

• Wk 3 - kidney - glomerulus, glomerular filtration; nephritic syndrome,  nephrotic syndrome

• Wk 4 - kidney - the nephron; processing of the glomerular filtrate

• Wk 5 - the distal urinary tract & urinary tract pathologies; acute cystitis, urethritis, pyelonephritis, urinary tract stones, prostatitis

• Wk 6 - blood, blood cells, hemoglobin, gas transport, blood gasses

• Wk 7 - the pulmonary circulation, congestive heart failure

• Wk 8 - the lungs & lower respiratory system

• Wk 9 - asthma, bronchiolitis

• Wk 10 - pneumonia, bronchitis

▾ Module 3

• Wk 1 - the glottis, epiglottis, larynx

• Wk 2 - the upper respiratory system - orientation

• Wk 3 - Upper respiratory allergy

• Wk 4 - rhinosinusitis, otitis media

• Wk 5 - pharyngitis | rheumatic fever

• Wk 6 - digestive system overview

• Wk 7 - esophagus, stomach

• Wk8 - duodenum, jejunum, ileum, exocrine pancreas, bile

• Wk9 - ileocaecal valve, colon, rectum

• Wk 10 - the bowel microbiome; “autointoxication,” probiotics, probiotics; “small intestine bacterial overgrowth (SIBO)”

▾ Module 4

• Wk1- enteric nervous system, mucosal-associated immunity

• Wk2 - inflammatory bowel disease, gluten sensitivity, lactose intolerance, fodmaps

• Wk3 - liver, gallbladder, bile

• Wk4 - liver, gallbladder disease

▾ Module 4

• Wk 1 - bone & connective tissue

• Wk 2 - bone healing, osteoporosis

• Wk 3 - Cartilage; articulate cartilage, ligaments, tendons

• Wk 4 - the axial skeleton, skull & jaw; & associated musculature

• Wk 5 - the pelvic girdle

• Wk 6 - the shoulder girdle

• Wk 7 - the appendicular skeleton & associated musculature

▾ Wk 8 - Muscle

• Muscle structure, motor end plate, muscle spindle apparatus

• Myofascial pain & dysfunction

▾ Module 5

• Wk1 - The nervous system, overview; Nerves, The peripheral nervous system, neurotransmitters

• Wk2 - The spinal cord, spinal reflexes

• Wk3 - the central nervous system

• Wk4 - Stroke, traumatic & acquired brain injury

• Wk5 - the Mind; Psychiatry, behavioral neurobiology

▾ Wk6 - the endocrine system 1

• Overview

• Pituitary

▾ Pineal

• diurnal rhythm

• Adrenals

▾ Wk7 - endocrine system 2

• the Endocrine pancreas

• Diabetes mellitus

• Wk 8 - Psychoneuroimmunology

▾ Wk 9 - The Reproductive system

• Anatomy

• sex hormones

• the Menstrual cycle

• Wk 10 - Ontogeny - development & differentiation

▾ Module 6

• Wk 1 - cellular structure & physiology

• Wk 2 - skin

▾ Wk3 - Immunity

• Barriers

• Innate immunity

• Adaptive immunity

• Autoimmune disease

• Wk 4 - Vaccination

• Wk 5 - genetics

• Wk 6 - Cancer

• Wk 7 - oxidative damage & antioxidants

• Wk 8 - Nutrition & health

• Wk 9 - Review

• Wk 10 - Review

▾ Assessment

▾ Automatically-graded quiz on each unit, emphasizing learning objectives

• Multiple-choice, short-answer, matching questions

• 80% passing score

▾ Documentation of Participation

• Downloadable .pdf document for each module, dependent on passing score (80%) on all 10 quizzes for that module