Caroline delivers all lectures herself, Caroline oversees ALL the techniques and practicals, and Caroline manages all the clinical observations and participations herself - no substitutions here!
Learn to think physiologically and develop deeper skills in osteopathic case analysis and management
There is a full Diploma version (2 years, including practicals and clinics), a Certificate (one year - the first year of the Diploma, includes practicals / clinics).
There is a fully face to face option and a hybrid option (lectures online, not in person, but with change to join the clinical / practical days when schedules for the face to face group.
All clinicals / practicals are held in Bristol (please enquire for venue details)
If you can't make the in person slots, then you can follow purely online.
- take your osteopathic journey further and increase your scope of practice
- build on your undergraduate training, and gain insights into updated evidence and technical dynamics of practice
- learn how to enhance clinical management of respiratory, abdominal / digestive, general systemic, endocrine immune, and urogenital dynamics
- Get extensive library of videos and online resources for your main lecture content
- Get 4 practical blocks per year (each 3 days for Diploma / certificate students). This option is not available for hybrid students.
- get 3 clinical days - added to 3 of the practical blocks per year. This option is available for hybrid students - you need to added the 3 days to get your clinical experience.
- Get zoom tutorial support (for Diploma / certificate students only)
The full Diploma programme includes all online material - so check out the online content tables below, as well as the practical block tables! Also, zoom tutorials, assessments and lots of class interactions. It enrols every 2 years.
For 2024-2025 the Certificate (year one) is open to enrol (the second year, the diploma year will enrol in 2025-2026)
DIPLOMA / CERTIFICATE FEES PER YEAR: This fee is £2250 if paid in full by 1 Aug 2024, or £2500,
Payments by instalments incur an additional fee, AND ARE ONLY AVAILABLE FOR THE FULLY FACE TO FACE OPTION - overall cost is £2800 - £800 due on enrolment, then £500 in advance of each practical / clinical block).
Hybrid - online with 3 clinical days - £1800, no instalments, includes zoom tutorials.
Online only - £1500 (includes zoom tutorials, no instalments)
There are no refunds for covid or other unforeseen circumstances, as the majority of the programme is online, and the practical dates will be rescheduled.
Use bank transfer to pay, and download the forms and return them. Please refer to the forms and fees page for details.
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The dates for this year's fully face to face certificate version, including clinical / practical days are as follows:
VISCERAL CERTIFICATE DATES:
BLOCK ONE:
SUN 13 OCTOBER – CLINICAL INTRODUCTION DAY
MON-WED – 14-15-16- OCTOBER 2024– IN PERSON LECTURES
BLOCK TWO:
SUN 12 JANUARY 2025, CLINICAL DAY
MON-WED 13-14-15 JANUARY 2025, IN PERSON LECTURE DAYS
BLOCK THREE:
SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY, CLINICAL DAY
MON-WED 24-25-26 FEB, IN PERSON LECTURE DAYS
BLOCK FOUR:
MON-WED 9-10-11 JUNE, IN PERSON LECTURE DAYS
NO CLINICAL DAY
Content for face to face blocks:
| visceral BLOCK ONE | visceral BLOCK ONE | visceral BLOCK ONE |
| INTRODUCTION, REFLEXES, FLUID CHANNELS, POSTURE AS PHYSIOLOGY | COELOMIC STRUCTURES AND THE HYDROSKELETON, MORPHOLOGY, MOVEMENT AND EMBRYOLOGY | aims of osteopathic intervention / treatment options / evidence |
| visceral BLOCK TWO | visceral BLOCK TWO | visceral BLOCK TWO |
| visceral changes over time, development of ans | more on cavity pressures, fluid flow, transmural pressures, global reflexes | immunology, endocrine dynamics and mechanical signalling / balance DIGESTIVE INTRODUCTION |
| VISCERAL BLOCK THREE | VISCERAL BLOCK THREE | VISCERAL BLOCK THREE |
| case analysis in an osteopathic paradigm - integrating the systems and looking at aetiology, combinations and induction | CIRCADIAN RYHTMS, BIOLOGICAL OSCILLATION, ENDOCRINE DYNAMICS, MORE ON NEUROENDOCRINE INTEGRATION | BREATHING AND CVS MECHANICS |
| VISCERAL BLOCK FOUR | VISCERAL BLOCK FOUR | VISCERAL BLOCK FOUR |
| MORE COELAIC REGION / SUB-DIAPHRAGMATIC / RETRO-PERITEONAL | UROGENITAL AND PELVIC FLOOR | STOMAOGNATHIC, FACE, BREATHING, HEADS |
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THE HYBRID / ONLINE PROGRAMME
The online programme is a series of pre recorded lecture series and lots of other online resources. See below for indicative table of contents.
There are 9 monthly modules of online learning, each supported by a monthly live one hour zoom tutorial meeting (zoom tutorials are reserved for Diploma students and are not available on the COD programme)
OVERVIEW OF MODULE CONTENTS
There is one module per teaching month – online and pre-recorded lectures and other e-resources make up the teaching content.
There is one zoom meeting per module.
Three modules make up a semester. There are three semesters in the year.
The practical sessions are extra, and there is one practical block per semester
All modules and practical blocks are compulsory, clinical blocks are separate and can be added by negotiation
SEMESTER ONE: FEB, MARCH, APRIL
Associated practical block: 26, 27, 38 March, 2024.- 3 days on osteopathic assessment, postural dynamics, body cavities and abdominal sliding surface, fluids and fascia, lymph and spinal visceral reflex awareness (days 1 and 2 only for CPD students, all 3 for Diploma students).
| MODULE ONE Compartments and cavities | MODULE TWO Innervation | MODULE THREE |
| INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMIC OSTOEPATHY - PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE | Autonomics | Fluids |
| Coelum, serous fluids, embryology | Interoception | Visceral-vascular |
| Visceral dynamics | Microbiome | venous |
| sliding surfaces | gut-brain | CSF / peritoneal / pericardial / peritoneal fluids |
| ligaments, pressures, inter-relations | heart-brain | Lymph, BONES |
SEMESTER TWO: MAY, JUNE, JULY
Associated practical block 18-19-20 June 2024- Nelson, Lancashire, UK 3 days on head, neck, chest and endocrine-immune. (days 1 and 2 only for CPD students, all 3 for Diploma students).
| MODUILE FOUR the respiratory system | MODULE FIVE cranial cavity dynamics | MODULE SIX digestive - intraperitoneal |
| cardiac dynamics | spinal canal dynamics | digestive – INC retroperitoneal |
| sleep, arousal, breathing | EENT AND the stomatognathic system | |
| neuro-endocrine-immune | Microbiome, functional gastro-intestinal |
SEMESTER THREE: SEPT, OCT, NOV
Associated practical block - 10-11-12 September, 2024 - Nelson, Lancashire, UK. 3 days on global pelvic assessment, trauma and stress dynamics, osteopathic evaluation, case analysis and care plan development (days 1 and 2 only for CPD students, all 3 for Diploma students).
| MODULE SEVEN | MODULE EIGHT | MODULE NINE |
| Pelvic function across the lifespan general urogenital dynamics renal and urinary system pain behaviours and coping strategies scars & post operative considerations pelvic pain, urinary, genital / prostate / general gynae considerations, rectal dynamics chronic pain considerations | further lymphatics, immune system integration hormones and transmitters stress. allostasis, inflammatory and oxidative dynamics, Systemic health and where the osteopathic contribution lies | Review of osteopathic principles to relate to the course learning objectives Review of evidence based practice for a variety of visceral and systemic conditions. Critical appraisal of the ‘concerns’ about the wider scope of osteopathic practice Outcome measures and other clinical matters for visceral and systemic osteopathy |