Teaching Clinics / LECTURE VENUES

Lecture Venue

For all weekend practical and midweek intensives – we have a small group lecture venue, with some accommodation available, in Colne, Lancashire.

This may eventually host clinics on Mondays or Thursdays, around the practical weekends.

Please see here for this lecture accommodation. Please note, if a free bed / accommodation space is offered to you, it is not guaranteed and for example, if the house is not available / becomes unavailable for any reason, then the CNMO does not fund a replacement. At the end of the day your accommodation costs and travel costs are your own.

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CLINICS

Once students have graduated they are eligible to host a clinical session. So long as one practitioner has graduated from the CNMO you can organise a clinical weekend in your location, where Caroline can attend and give a teaching weekend.

Clinic weekends are funded and organised separately from the Diploma – and all logistics are handled by the organising clinician locally. Caroline charges a flat fee per 2 day weekend – £1500 in UK or £3000 abroad / Europe. Attendee numbers must be capped at 6, not including Caroline and 3-4 patients per day are the maximum, to allow for extended consultations and tutorials. The clinic room must be large enough to support this number of observers, and patients must be given specific guidance as the the teaching clinic experience and organisation. This is available in detail – please contact Caroline to discuss clinics and arrangements.

Organising practitioners / clinic owners should charge attending local colleagues, and will be responsible for paying Caroline (payment due just prior to the clinic).

This is a great way network, and share osteopathic awareness and get lots of peer-to peer CPD time with colleagues / great for a group practice setting. Participating private clinics would get tutoring and mentoring support as required. Caroline would attend all group clinics in the host location, to deliver clinical demonstrations / patient evaluation and hands on guidance to students. Numbers are deliberately small – 4 to 6 graduate students per visit to support a detailed and discrete clinical experience for all. Each patient experience is mostly demonstration of clinical reasoning, assessing and evaluating patients, to make a detailed osteopathic interpretation of each individual case, and to develop a management plan that is carefully outlined for the patient. This management plan can then guide the local clinicians / practitioner responsible for referring the patient in the first place who is responsible for ongoing care. Treatment may not be available due to time constraints as assessing the patients carefully and according to traditional osteopathic concepts take time.

Osteopaths can draw on attendees from their regional network or are free to invite other students on the Diploma who may want a clinic in that location., but finding participants is up to the organising clinic, but note that if there are small numbers Caroline’s fee is the same.

All teaching clinics deliver ‘somatophysiological care’, and do not give osteopathy. There is a particular reason for this. Caroline has voluntarily deregistered from the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) in good standing and practices manual therapy as a somatophysiological / functional manual medicine practitioner. In addition, many graduate students on Caroline’s programmes are from abroad, and so are not registered with the GOsC to practice Osteopathy in the UK.

So, whilst the Diploma programmes educate about osteopathic practice, any teaching clinics, demonstrate the particular somatophysiological approaches that Caroline has developed from her 40 years in osteopathic and manual medicine practice. They are all based on osteopathic principles, but do not constitute a claim to practice / deliver osteopathy in the UK within a clinical setting. Any patients referred to or attending to the teaching clinics are made aware that their care is delivered by a somatophysiological practitioner and as such is not ‘osteopathy as delivered by a UK GOsC Registered Osteopath’. Overall clinical responsibility lies with the referring osteopathic clinic and the practitioner who referred the patient, and these referring practitioners are given a report from the teaching clinic about the examination and evaluation findings noted, as well as suggestions for management based on the principles used in the CNMO taught programmes.