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It all began in 1932, when the 'Homoeopathic Post-Graduate Association' was formed to teach Homoeopathy to Allopathic physicians and to orient lay people interested to understand the science. By 1952 this progressed to a well-formulated weekly lecture series, which continued till 1975, when the late Dr. M. L. Dhawale and his colleagues established the 'Institute of Clinical Research' (ICR) . The educational activities of the ICR have merged with the 'ICR Group of Organizations' over a period of time.

Through these efforts of almost 75 years, the Faculty has discovered a few seminal points about professional education. These are:

• A lecture benefits the lecturer the most, since he has worked the hardest.
• It is difficult to 'teach'; knowledge comes through learning alone.
• In a well-conducted group discussion, all teach each other and hence learning is the fastest.
• Learning by Doing - Action Learning - is the best method for the learning of skills.
• What stands in the way of true perceiving are the prejudices that the physician has developed through living his own life. A physician needs to become aware of these prejudices so as to handle them.
• Comprehending Life and Living, thus, is a very effective way of becoming the Unprejudiced Observer of whom Hahnemann speaks.
• Sensitivity Training needs to be an integral part of the learning process.

INSIGHTS

Some insights about Homeopathy and its practice, too, have developed. These are:

• Homeopathy is amenable to logic and hence reasoning. So it is possible to duplicate well-worked-out results.
• At the same time, it is an artistic science, which means that individual perceiving of the physician governs his actions. The physician interacts with the problems present in the case at a very deep level. So the physician needs to be aware of himself at these depths. Hence the dictum, ' Physician, heal thyself'

EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS

Putting both sets of insights together, the ICR Group has over the years, evolved the following strong basis of its educational efforts:

• Standardization of Individualization through which a group perceives a totality using uniform methods of analysis and synthesis.
• Clinical practice is through the use of the Standardized Case Record (currently in its 10 th edition) - a record doing justice to all phases of case work - case recording, case analysis and case processing and the final follow-up analysis
• Training of the clinical observer leads to the evolution of the inner observer.
• Case- à Concept evolution of all Knowledge - experiential learning leads to a thorough analysis of the same
• Last but not the least, putting the patient before the self, always and every time.

EDUCATIONAL THRUST

The educational thrust result in these activities and courses:

• Post-Graduate Regular Training Course
• Symposia
• Lay Orientation Programme
• Contact Programmes for CME (Continued Medical Education)
• M. D. (Homeopathy) in 6 subjects