This series of ten (10) seminars/workshops, 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 DNM registration. You may choose to take one or more of the offered seminars/workshop 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.

Seminar/Workshop 1 - Module 1
NUTRITIONAL SYMPTOMATOLOGY
Nutritional symptomatology is a very reliable way of determining an individual nutritional status. It helps to pinpoint nutritional inadequacies or excesses which can easily be corrected by change in the diet or food supplements. By applying such measures at intervals during the nutritional program, it can also be used to assess your client’s progress.
This course is designed to equip you with the knowledge you need to solve client health problems which may e related to nutritional inadequacies.
Learn how to:

• Analyze symptoms of nutritional imbalances for over 400 symptoms
• Complete a fitness and weight management assessments
• Develop programs for clients based on their individual requirements

DATE: January 13 & 20

Seminar/Workshop 2 - Module 2
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.

DATE: February 17 & 24

Seminar/Workshop 3 - Module 3
IN OFFICE LAB TESTS
Learn how to improve your skills in assessing functional indicators and implementing treatment plans. In this seminar you will learn how to establish and inexpensive in office laboratory and to perform and interpret the following tests.
Zinc Challenge Test –measure of the zinc tissue levels
Saliva Challenge Test –measures alkaline buffer response
Urinary Chemstrip Test-dip and test for specific gravity, pH, leukocytes, nitrites, protein, glucose, Ketenes, urobilinogen, bilirubin & blood in urine
Urinary Vitamin C – Test for sufficient consumption of vitamin C consumption
Koenisburg Urinary Adrenal Test –useful in detecting typo-adrenia or hyper adrenia
Sulkowitch Urinary Calcium Test – helps determine calcium levels in diet
OXI-DATA URINARY FREE RADICAL TEST- Test for free radical activity
 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
URINARY INDICAN-Malabsorption – Detects Bowel toxicity and bowel wall permeability
BLOOD TYPING TEST – DETERMINE ABO blood type
TAVISH BLOOD HEMOGLOBIN TEST – Helps determine blood hemoglobin levels and the need for iron, copper, cobalt, B12 supplementation
H-PYLORI TEST – Analysis for H-Pylori indication for ulcer

Date: March 23 & 30

Seminar/Workshop 4 - Module 4 (Part II-Lab Medicine)
HAIR 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 response

DATE: April 20 & 27 

Seminar/Workshop 5-Module 5
BIOLOGICAL MEDICINE &MIASMATIC 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

Date: May 18 & 25   

Seminar/Workshop 6 – Module 6
DRY BLOOD MICROSCOPY

The humoral pathological Dry Mount Blood Test for the detection and motoring of metabolic dysfunction is a rapid inexpensive test that can be 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 clotting 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

BONUS:                 BLOOD TYPING TEST- DETERMINE ABO blood type
                                TAVISH BLOOD HEMOGLOBIN TEST- Helps determine blood        hemoglobin levels and the need for iron, copper, cobalt, B12 supplementation
                                H-PYLORI TEST-Analysis for H-Pylori indication for ulcer
Review of blood chemistry interpretation and protocols for balancing abnormal blood chemistry.

Date: June 22 & 29   

Seminar/Workshop 7 - Module 7
HOMEOPATHIC MINERALS & TONGUE DIAGNOSIS

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.

Date: September 14 & 21

Seminar/Workshop 8 - Module 8

MODULE 8
Pain Management & Auricular Acupuncture
The objective of this course is to provide the basic concepts and general level of knowledge for locating, needling and non needling methods of auricular therapy for pain management and addiction therapy. This program will enable you to formulate safe and effective treatment plans. You will learn how to recognize the interrelationship of auricular acupuncture therapy and whole body function and will be introduced to specific protocols for both auricular scalp acupuncture techniques and safe application of both therapies.

Date: October 12 & 26  

Seminar/Workshop 9 – Module 9
ECLECTIC 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 McKenzie

Seminar/Workshop 10 – Module 10
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.
Date: December 7 & 14

ASSOCIATE  & AFFILIATE SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS
Courses listed under this heading are offered by external educational institutions in collaboration with CCHM
BIOMEDICAL ACUPUNCTURE TM INSTITUTE (BMAI) WORKSHOP

Our three- day intensive practical workshop is clinically oriented and specifically designed for medical doctors (MD), doctors of osteopathy (DO), doctor of chiropractic (DC), with or without previous experience, Licensed acupuncturists and physical therapists.

This workshop is presented using familiar neuro-anatomical principles which share the same physiological basis with mainstream biomedicine.

The workshop provides you with solid practical skills for immediate implementation of Biomedical Acupuncture for Pain Management into daily practice.

Workshop Highlights

• Presentation of Biomedical mechanisms of acupuncture
• Practical implementation of Integrative Neuromuscular Acupuncture System TM (INMAS) for Pain Management.
• Presentation of Quantitative Patient Evaluation Method predicting the efficacy of the acupuncture treatments.

• Study of Neuro-psycho-immunological Modulation and Inflammation Management by biomedical acupuncture: theory and practical skills.
• Study of the principles of Viscero-cutaneous Projection for selecting the most effective symptomatic acupoints.
• Needling skills
• Safety skills, which include worldwide safety case examinations from 1950-2002.

PRESENTER:
Dr. Yun-Tao Ma, PhD, Lic Ac, is recognized worldwide for his contributions to the field of Medical Acupuncture and Pain Management.
Dr. Ma’s 30 year background in clinical acupuncture, neuro-science research with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and his teaching experience in Medical Schools and Universities in USA have all contributed to the creation of the unique Biomedical Acupuncture Model and a proprietary Integrative Neuro-muscular Acupoint System for a Pain Management.

Date: February 29, March 1st & 2nd, 2008
Cost: $800.00 
(Limited seating. Early registration required)
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