The Challenge to Professionalism Presented by Homeopathy

The following lecture, presented in a required course on nonprescription products, is given to students who are in the terminal year of a Bachelor of Science program. It is heavily laden with facts whose goal is to achieve cognitive learning. However, it also attempts to influence the students’ attitudes, in order to facilitate their growth as caring professionals who can retain a firm scientific and ethical grounding in their practice. The topic is one seldom covered in nonprescription product courses(1). As a basis for the specific discussion of homeopathy, the lecturer makes use of two articles which discuss the subject(2,3).