The Council for Homeopathic Education (CHE), with the support of the Homeopathic Community Council (HCC), held a Summit Meeting of invited representatives of key homeopathic organizations on January 28-30, 2000. The intention of this Summit was to achieve consensus on the homeopathic and medical competencies and standards necessary for the practice of homeopathy in North America. Following review by the North American homeopathic community, the CHE published this document which represents the final version of these competencies and standards.

Homeopathy is currently utilized by a wide variety of health-care practitioners in the United States and Canada. The political-legal environment in which homeopathy is practiced is in a state of evolution. These complexities make the job of the CHE in identifying the competencies and standards to which schools must prepare students a complicated task. It is a task that must be undertaken with sensitivity to many perspectives and an awareness that health care in the North America is heading rapidly toward new potentials. The CHE believes the establishment of standards is an evolving process that reflects developments in homeopathic practice, science and the political legal environment.

While the Summit group has outlined homeopathic and medical standards and competencies, we emphasize that the means of acquiring these competencies may vary from formal instruction to self-study to clinical supervision. Ideally, the training process will include all three of these elements. The important thing is that the instruction be based on definable standards and that homeopaths must be capable of demonstrating these competencies and proficiencies by the standardized measurements utilized by certification boards. 

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