Advanced Clinical Skills
This program contains 6 courses:
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Clinical Skills 1: Interview Skills in the Vitalist Tradition
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Clinical Skills 2: Intake and Pattern Assessment
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Clinical Skills 3: Case Analysis in the Vitalist Tradition
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Clinical Skills 4: Case Studies in Vitalist Herbalism
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Herbal Pairing & Modular Formulation
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Introduction to Insulin Resistance
Prerequisites
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Viral Infections
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Bacteria, Biofilms, and Chronic Infection
What's Included:
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186 audio files totaling over 36 hours
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467 pages of notes & slides
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A PDF library of 57 resources and classical herbal texts totaling over 3700 pages
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Total storage 2.2 GB
Program Overview
In this program you will learn to conduct an effective and comprehensive interview, learn to recognize patterns in the lifestyle, diet, constitutional presentation, and symptom pictures, learn to synthesize information through case analysis and develop and deliver an effective treatment plan, learn to develop patient-specific formulas in a fast and flexible manner, and learn a comprehensive approach with nutrition for the most common deficiencies and imbalances in the modern patient.
Clinical Skills 1:
Interview Skills in the Vitalist Tradition
In this first course in the Clinical Skills sequence, we first describe the personal challenges of the healing path, and then give the skill set to get accurate and complete information from your patient. If you don't get the story right, then all your knowledge of plants and nutrition will be wasted.
Clinical Skills 2:
Intake and Pattern Assessment
In this second course in our Clinical Skills sequence, we describe the items for an intake in detail, and describe patterns to be assessed during the process.
Clinical Skills 3:
Case Analysis in the Vitalist Tradition
In this third course in our Advanced Clinical Skills sequence, we describe processes to synthesize the material gathered during the interview, to assess the contributions of nutrient deficiencies to the presenting symptoms, and to use pattern recognition in the presentation and the history to proceed to a treatment plan.
Clinical Skills 4:
Case Studies in Vitalist Herbalism
In this fourth course in our Advanced Clinical Skills sequence, we present a series of successful case histories based on the interview and analytical methods presented in the first 3 courses, so that the vision of the successful case can help demonstrate the kind of information most important to elicit to develop an effective vitalist treatment plan.
Herbal Pairing & Modular Formulation
The clinical art of formulation is to devise a formula appropriate to each patient, specific in its components and their proportions to the condition of the patient, and adjusted or modified to their constitutional presentation. We begin with the study of simple pairs, and then progress to formula modules of 2-4 complementary herbs which can themselves be combined flexibly into larger formulas. In this course we study classical combination and formulas, as well as modern adaptations.
Introduction to Insulin Resistance
Insulin resistance is the root pathology not only of Type II diabetes, but also contributes to heart disease, stroke, obesity, hypertension, several common cancers, and other conditions ranging from polycystic ovarian disease to acne to brittle bones and depression. In this course you will learn the pathophysiology of insulin resistance, and the influence of diet, exercise, nutrition and herbs on the condition. You will gain understanding and competence in the clinical application of protocols based on the material learned.
