"Canadian College of Humanitarian Medicine" (CCHM)
CONTINUING EDUCATION CERTIFICATE COURSES - 2010These professional development certificate courses are intended for Health Care professionals who wish to upgrade their credentials for continuing education or practitioners seeking to gain course credits to qualify for Board certification. You may choose to take one or more of the offered course to satisfy continuing education credits. At the end of each course (module) a certificate is awarded and upon completion of all module/ certificates in the series a DIPLOMA in Integrative Medicine is awarded. (All prices are in Canadian Dollars)
LABRATORY MEDICINE
Learn how to improve your skills in interpreting functional laboratory indicators and implementing treatment plans and how to establish an inexpensive in office laboratory. The following test, are included.
SALIVA CHALLENGE TEST: Measures alkaline buffer response and your patient’s need for mineral supplement.
URINARY CHEMISTRY TEST: Dip and test for specific gravity, pH, leukocytes, nitrites, protein, glucose, Ketenes, urobilinogen, bilirubin & blood in urine
BRIX GLUCOSE INDEX: Test determine the exact level of glucose in the system and pancreatic burden
SALINE INDEX: Helps determine burden of sodium on the cardiovascular system and indirectly cholesterol build up
UREA AND AMMONIA INDICES: Helps determine liver function
Heavy Metal Screen Test
Detects free toxic metals (mercury, cadmium & lead) and toxic levels of zinc, copper, manganese, nickel and cobalt; this test demonstrates the necessity of any toxic metal cleansing therapy and to control the effectiveness of such procedure during and after treatment.
Aging index
This test determines the speed of aging by metabolic turn over of Protein and indirectly your clients need for anti-oxidant therapy.
Bonus: In Office Saliva mineral screening
Fee: $800.00 (CAD)
Date: February 28.2010
Instructor: Sheila McKenzie, RDH, HD, PhD, D.Ac, DHS
THE COMPLETE PHYSICAL
Clinical patient centered diagnosis; learning proper head to toe assessment techniques and interpretation is the foundation of the complete functional medicine diagnosis. In this course you will learn how to complete a comprehensive clinical assessment using the four primary techniques: Health Interview, Inspection, Palpitation, and Percussion Auscultation, documentation of clinical findings and treatment and treatment plan interpretation of findings.
Fee: $800.00 (CAD)
Date: MARCH 26 & APRIL 4, 2010
Instructor: Sheila McKenzie, RDH, HD, PhD, D.Ac, DHSDRY BLOOD MICROSCOPY
The humoral pathological Dry Mount Blood Test for the detection and motoring of metabolic dysfunction is a rapid inexpensive test that is done in office with the aid of an ordinary microscope. An excellent method to monitor the accumulation of reactive Toxic Species (ROTS) in a normal clothing procedure on a slide which can be done easily and inexpensively in your office.
The test is simple and fast
It is inexpensive and easy to interpret
It is visual evidence for both the physician and the patient and is non traumatic for the patient
Review of blood chemistry interpretation and protocols for balancing abnormal blood chemistry.Fee: $500.00 (CAD)
Date: May 9, 2010
Instructor: Sheila McKenzie, RDH, HD, PhD, D.Ac, DHS
EKG (ELECTRO CARDIOGRAM)
The electro cardiogram (ECG or EKG) is a clinical tool which measures the quantity and quality of electrical impulses traveling the cardiac conduction system and myocardium. Only a small quantity of electrical current is generated by the heart and considerable amplification must be employed since the EKG detects only the final sum of currents. Since cardio vascular diseases and in particular heart disease is the number one cause of death and hospitalization, Natural Medicine professionals must be competent in and use EKG as part of the complete assessment.
In this hand on course you will learn how to analyze the patient and interpret the EKG. It provides the basic instructions on interpreting the EKG... it covers electrical system of the heart and how it is recorded with an EKG machine. You will learn what the lines on the EKG tell you about the heart, learn how to recognize a heart attack, irregular rhythm, too fast or too slow rhythm, lethal rhythm such as ventricular fibrillation, blocks of heart nerve system known as bundle blocks, first degree heart blocks, second degree heart blocks, third degree heart blocks, heart enlargement, the axis of the heart, P waves, QRS complex, ST segments, T waves and other information concerning the EKG.Instructor: Sheila McKenzie, RDH, HD, PhD, D.Ac
Fee: $600.00 (CAD)
Date: June 13, 2010MIASMATIC BLOOD SCREENING & ISOPATHIC IMMUNIZATION
The MIASMATIC blood screening helps to determine miasmatic (acquired and inherited mesenchymal disease taint) and determine which homeopathic/ isopathic is best suited to clear a given miasma The origin of biological medicine and its wide applications as cleansing and supportive therapy will be discussed.
Fee: $800.00 (CAD)
Time: TBAHAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION
Each day many individuals worldwide take nutritional supplements, on the advice of their health care professionals without knowing their needs for nutritional supplementation or if they are working.
In this course you will:
- Gain the skills necessary to detect sub-clinical mineral imbalances
- Assessing mineral imbalance and heavy metal toxicity by interpreting THMA
- You will gain fundamental understanding of minerals as the core nutrients for optimal biochemical function.
- Indirect detection of non-invasive cholesterol levels
- You will receive appropriate clinical protocol for prescribing mineral medicines.
BONUS:
Zinc Challenge Test-measure of the zinc tissue levels
Saliva Challenge Test-Measures alkaline buffer responseFee: $800.00 (CAD)
Date: TBAHOMEOPATHIC MINERALS & TONGUE DIAGNOSIS
Part I & Part II
One of the first places that information can be obtained about the general health of the body is the tongue. Signs of imbalances in other body organs or tissues for example the skin, hair nails can only be detected after weeks or even months of imbalances, but with tongue diagnosis the imbalances can be detected in as little as twenty four hours. Tongue diagnosis is fast, accurate, safe non invasive and easy to learn.
After detecting and interpretation tongue of mineral shifts in the cells and the tissues, homeopathic biochemical minerals are administered to re-established balance in the cells and restore health. Learn this simple yet powerful diagnostic and mineral balancing technique in two days and add a new dimension to your practice.
Part I & Part IIFee: $1,200.00 (CAD)
Date: TBAECLECTIC MEDICINE
This is a branch of Natural Medicine which makes use of best of non patented or manufactured remedies and techniques. The term was coined by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1784 to 1841), a physician living among the Native Americans, and observing their use of medicinal plants and natural techniques. He coined the word "Eclectic" to refer to those physicians who adopted in practice whatever was found to be beneficial to their patients. The Eclectics were doctors with a philosophy of "alignment with nature," learning from and using concepts from other schools, and opposing the practices of bleeding, purging and use of mecuricals common among the "regular" doctors of that time.
With increasing high cost and control of manufactured natural remedies successful eclectic remedies techniques is most relevant for the survival of your practice
Learn this effective none, invasive inexpensive technique and remedies that will bring phenomenal result to your patient’s wellbeing without draining their financial resources
This course is also suited for individuals wishing to upgrade their skills for humanitarian medicine and rural medicine health care
Course includes:
Over 100 protocols
Book on Eclectic Medicine by Dr. Sheila McKenzieHumanitarian & Missionary Medicine Certification
This course is a must for humanitarian missionary personnel who will be isolated from traditional western medical health care techniques and are involved in community or international Clinics for Humanity program.
Lectures, are presented by various instructors with experience in Third World medicine, include: Patient Evaluation, Logic of Diagnoses, Infectious Diseases, Common Diseases, Midwifery.Labs will give hands-on experience in physical examination, pain management, and alternative to suturing lacerations, hydration therapy, dispensing of eclectic medicines and sterilizing and developing personal medical kits.
4 days of lecture and 4 days of practical workshop
Fee: $950.00 (CAD)
Date: TBA