AMCH Community and Culture

   

AMCH Community

There is a strong and vital college community at AMCH. The student community is diverse in terms of backgrounds, ethnicity, culture and age. Information is available concerning the demographics of the student population from the Registrar’s Office.
  
Community participation is emphasized throughout the curriculum including a community project as part of the curriculum. Postgraduate programs and mentorship programs also promote the development of the homeopathic community. Arizona is well known to have one of the strongest homeopathic communities in the nation. 
  

Local Community

Central to the success of AMCH is a good relationship with the local community. This includes developing relationships and partnership with a variety of local organizations, public education, creating a media presence and a political presence on local politics. Some key elements of AMCH that will facilitate this interface are the following:

  • Free/Low Income Clinic

  • Women's Health Clinic

  • Partnerships with other Alternative Medicine Schools and Programs

  • Partnerships with other Conventional Medical Programs

  • The American Museum of Homeopathy as community resource

  • AMCH Public information center

  • AMCH Introductory Programs

  • AMCH Media Program

  • AMCH Post Graduate Training as a local resource

  • AMCH Pharmacy as a local resource

  • AMCH Library as a local resource

  • Creation of an AMCH Newsletter

  • Creation of awareness in the school culture of awareness of the local and healthcare community and the capacity to work effectively within it

Arizona State Community

  

Central to the success of AMCH is a good relationship with the state community. This includes developing relationships and partnership with a variety of state organizations, public education, creating a media presence and a political presence in state politics. Some key elements of AMCH that will facilitate this interface are the following:

  • Native American Clinic

  • Partnership with Community Health Care Clinics throughout Arizona

  • Partnerships with the University of Arizona

  • The American Museum of Homeopathy as community state resource

  • AMCH Public information center

  • AMCH Introductory Programs-Road Show that travels throughout Arizona

  • AMCH Media Program

  • Active presence in Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners

  • Active presence in the Arizona Homeopathic and Integrative 

  • Medical Association

  • AMCH Post Graduate Training as a state resource

  • State Licensure

  • AMCH Library as a state resource

  • AMCH Pharmacy as a state resource

  • AMCH Website

National Community

Central to the success of AMCH is a good relationship with the national community. This includes developing relationships and partnership with a variety of national organizations, public education, creating a media presence and a political presence in national politics. Some key elements of AMCH that will facilitate this interface are the following:

  • Creation of a nationally renowned Mayo like clinic

  • Partnership with National Center for Homeopathy

  • The American Museum of Homeopathy as a national resource

  • AMCH Public information center

  • AMCH Post Graduate Training as a national resource

  • AMCH Media Program

  • Involvement with NED and ACCHAC

  • National Accreditation

  • AMCH Library as a national resource

  • AMCH Website

  • Homeopathic emergency response program and team

  • Distance learning programming

  • Creation of a national clinical training resource

  • Internet classroom for students and faculty

International Community

Central to the success of AMCH is a good relationship with the international community. This includes developing relationships and partnership with a variety of international organizations, public education and creating a media presence. Some key elements of AMCH that will facilitate this interface are the following:

  • Creation of partnerships with other homeopathic medical schools from around the world

  • Foreign exchange program for students, faculty and administration

  • Partnership with Homeopaths Without Borders

  • Homeopathic emergency response program and team

  • Distance learning programming

  • The American Museum of Homeopathy as an international resource

  • AMCH Public information center

  • AMCH Library as a international resource

  • AMCH Website as an international resource

  • Creation of an international proving database

  • Internet classroom for students and faculty

Natural Community

Central to the success of AMCH is a good relationship with the natural community. This includes developing relationships and partnership with a variety of organizations focusing on the natural community, public education and creating a media presence. Some key elements of AMCH that will facilitate this interface are the following:

  • Creation of partnerships with other organizations that have to do with the natural world including zoos and botanical gardens

  • Partnerships with Sierra Club and other organizations that promote the natural community

  • Creation of a campus that is environmentally friendly and part of the natural world

  • American Museum of Homeopathy whose mission in part is to help connect the public with the natural world

  • Conducting provings that continuously explore medicinal properties of the natural world

  • Media presence that promotes that health of the natural community

  • AMCH Public information center

  • AMCH Library as a natural community resource

  • Creation of attitudes in the school culture that foster a love for all Life

  • Creation of awareness in the school culture of the natural world

 

AMCH Community Service Award

   

AMCH honors members of the homeopathic community through the awarding of the AMCH Community Service Award. Recipients have significantly benefited the homeopathic community through dedication and service.

2008 AMCH Community Service Award Recipient: 
Eileen Nauman, DHM (UK)

Eileen Nauman is one of the founders of the homeopathic community in Arizona. She practiced homeopathy in Ohio from 1970-1989. After that she focused on writing books about homeopathy based on her experience. She taught the Arizona Homeopathic Study Group for several years. She was the director of a homeopathic clinic on the Navajo reservation for several years.

Eileen's books on homeopathic medicine are: Help and Homeopathy, Beauty in Bloom - Homeopathy to support Menopause, Homeopathy for Epidemics, Poisons that Heal and The Doctrine of Signatures in Homeopathy.

She is the author of over 90 fiction books. Eileen has many and varied interests, check here for more information www.medicinegarden.com

2007 AMCH Community Service Award Recipient: 
Dr. Bruce Shelton MD, MD(H), DiHom

Dr. Bruce Shelton is a dually licensed homeopathic physician and family practitioner in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from New York Medical College and has been in practice for over 30 years. He served as the president of the Arizona Board of Homeopathic Examiners for many years. He is the current president of the Arizona Homeopathic and Integrative Medical Association. Dr. Shelton is the Dean of Bioenergetic Medicine of the British Institute of Homeopathy.
Dr.Shelton's website is (www.drbruceshelton.com).

2006 AMCH Community Service Award Recipient: 
Lesley Hesselmann, DHM (UK)

Lesley Hesselmann, DHM, has been a central pillar in the Arizona homeopathic community for many years. She became interested in homeopathic medicine in 1991 when the Phoenix Study Group was formed. She served on the board of the National Center for Homeopathy Phoenix Study Group for many years. She was the National Center for Homeopathy representative for the Western Region for many years. She has served on the AMCH Board of Directors since its inception in 1999. She is the Director of Distance Learning program for the American Medical College of Homeopathy.

Lesley has done extensive editing of homeopathic manuscripts for the homeopathic community.