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- One-to-one supervision programme
- Medical science included in the syllabus
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Clinical experience at busy live clinics
One of the greatest strengths of the North West College is the range of teaching clinics on offer. The clinics attract a typical wide variety of patients from local communities and further afield. Clinical training is a key focus of your education.
Clinical experience involves four students "sitting in" in a clinic with a practitioner.
These are busy days, usually six hours in length, where there is a chance to discuss cases with peers and the practitioner and to recognise your own strengths and areas needing further development.
Direct student experience of clinics has been at the heart of the training at the NWCH since the beginning. Lots of development work has gone into this aspect of the programme in the last seven years, particularly in the area of student supervision.
We have arrangements with homeopaths in various parts of the north west and beyond - which means that we can usually sort something out close to where you live if you cannot come in to Manchester. This is relatively straightforward because our requirements of practitioners and students are clearly described in the college clinical handbooks
Students currently need to do 150 hours of clinic participation in total during years two, three and four.
Students generally find the experience demanding but very worthwhile. There is an expectation of more involvement in the process as you go through the course. The clinics expose you to a variety of approaches from different practitioners.