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Meet The Team

Our Clinical Internship Supervisors

Lisa Decandia, HOM, DSHM, R. BIE, MSc

Clinical Internship Instructor

Lisa Decandia has been practicing homeopathy for over 23 years. She currently practices in Newmarket, Canada where she treats a variety of health issues including the treatment of children and women’s health issues. Lisa is a core lecturer at the Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine in Toronto, Canada .

Kerri Flood HOM, DCHN

Clinical Internship Teaching Assistant

Kerri works alongside Dr. Kellerstein in the CCHM Teaching Clinic. She also sees patients at her own clinic in Toronto (390 Dupont St.), and offers a house call service too. Kerri comes from a long line of women who have known how to work with nature and the body’s own strengths to preserve health and treat illness.

Dr. Shahram Ayoubzadeh N.D., HOM

Dean, Lecturer + Clinical Supervisor

Although Shahram Ayoubzadeh practices as a Naturopathic Doctor and Homeopathic Physician in Canada, he is also trained as a medical doctor. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine in Dakar, Senegal, specializing in tropical disease and leprosy. Since his arrival in Canada in 1987, he has done extensive study in the field of holistic and natural approaches to healing.

The CCHM Internship Clinic is an observational clinic, where students have the opportunity to watch a master homeopath take live cases with real patients. During these internship clinics, students are encouraged to ask questions to gain the insight and perspective needed to manage their own cases. Students are able to observe the homeopath navigate the case taking process in order to identify the patient symptoms that need to be addressed and treated by the homeopathic remedy. By watching this live interaction in a clinical environment, students get exposed to the communication skills needed in order to feel confident in providing care to a patient.

Meet The Team

Our Clinical Externship Supervisors

Mary Paterson Blackmore HOM, DCHM (Hons)

Clinical Externship Supervisor

Mary Paterson Blackmore, DCHM (Hons), is the owner of Blackmore Wellness. She practices in Perth, Ontario, at the Lotus Wings Building and at her home office in Snow Road Station. Mary also consults with remote patients virtually or via telephone.
Mary was trained in Classical Homeopathy at the Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine (CCHM),

Monica Frohmann, HOM

Clinical Externship Supervisor

I have been practicing homeopathy full time since 1999. After suffering for years with a chronic disease and traditional treatment methods failing, I decided to research alternative methods of healing. Soon, I came across homeopathy and I never looked back.

Meghan Manzo HOM, DSHM, RN

Clinical Externship Supervisor

Meghan has been making her mark in the field of medicine for over 12 years and supporting those who require the diligence and attention needed for restoring health. She graduated McMaster University with honors as a registered nurse, now specializing in the cardiac ICU setting and over the last 8 years has expanded her horizons into homeopathic medicine.

Paul Richard Saunders, PhD, ND, RHOM

Clinical Externship Supervisor

Paul Saunders obtained his PhD from Duke University in Forest Ecology and Botany and taught at Clemson and Washington State Universities. He returned to graduate studies and earned one ND from the now Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto, Ontario, and a second ND and completed residency in homeopathic medicine.

Jack Gagliardi, HOM, DSHomMed

Clinical supervisor, Lecturer

Jack Gagliardi graduated from the Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine and also has an honours degree from the University of Toronto and a Community Worker diploma from George Brown College.
Jack has had a private homeopathic practice for over 20 years.

Lisa Decandia, HOM, DSHM, R. BIE, MSc

Lecturer, Clinical Supervisor

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Jude Cockburn, HOM, DCHM, FSHM

College Registrar, Clinical Supervisor + E-Learning Director

Jude graduated from the University of Waikato, New Zealand with a B of Soc. Sci Hons, specializing in History. After working for 2 years in the Government Library she left for London, England and worked in the Corporate world for 16 years

Andrea Gallant Deal, HOM, DSHM

College Administrative Director, Lecturer + Clinical Supervisor

Andrea is a Registered Homeopath and Clinical Herbalist. She graduated from CCHM in 2001. Drawing on her experience as a mother and doula, Andrea has a special interest in providing care for women, children, and families, though she works with people of all backgrounds and ages and stages of life.

Sandra Dahlberg BCom., HOM.

Clinical Externship Supervisor

Sandra is a graduate from the Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine with a Diploma in Classical Homeopathy. She is registered with the College of Homeopaths of Ontario. She holds a Certificate in Treating Lipedema from The University of Arizona, College of Medicine. She is a Supervisor at the Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine .

CCHM’s Clinical Externship is in essence a Homeopathic apprenticeship. Through this process, you will be applying everything you have learned during your studies and Clinical Internship towards your own patients, under the careful observation + guidance of our Externship supervisors.

Your supervisor will have a minimum of 5 years of experience. They are all registered Homeopaths with CHO and, they have all been specifically trained by CCHM to provide a very particular type of mentoring experience for our students.

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The Role Supervisors Play In Your Training

Student Teaching clinic

Two Fold Clinical Training

1) Internship Clinic

The internship clinic experience provides over 100+ hours of homeopathic observation and analysis. Going through this clinical training model, prepares students for our Clinical Externship, where they apply their newly gained homeopathic skills and insights towards their own patients.

2) Clinical Externship

CCHM’s Clinical Externship is in essence a Homeopathic apprenticeship. Through this process, you will be applying everything you have learned during your studies and Clinical Internship towards your own patients. Each student is supervised by a professional homeopath who will mentor them through their own cases.

The first step of the Externship is for students to market themselves as homeopathic students to find new patients in their own communities. In essence, these are the student’s patients and they can continue to work with them after graduation.

The people you treat during these cases can become the first patients of your homeopathic practice after you graduate.

Students are responsible for treating these patients homeopathically under the supervision of the homeopathic supervisor. Each student will take their patients’ case(s) and write a full homeopathic case write-up and analysis to the same degree as the Internship Clinic. This case analysis is then submitted to the homeopathic supervisor along with the student’s case notes. The supervisor will review, provide feedback on the student’s case-taking and analysis, then confirm whether or not you have a strong homeopathic case for remedy selection. Only when the student and supervisor both feel confident in the case analysis and remedy selection, will the supervisor give the student the ‘green-light’ to proceed. Student’s will advise their patient of the remedy selection and give them instructions on how to take the remedy. It is then the responsibility of the student to observe any changes or symptoms that the patient may experience through follow-up consultations, referring back to the supervisor through every step of the process to confirm the next-steps in the homeopathic treatment.

Through the Internship and Externship clinic training, we provide our students the number of case-hours necessary to meet the clinical requirements of both the College of Homeopaths of Ontario as well as the Council for Homeopathic Certification (*Hours are calculated using the recommended formula from CHO and CHC respectively).

Practice makes perfect, which is why at CCHM we provide students with an abundance of practical experience. Our clinical training stands as a testament to our commitment to producing competent, compassionate, and confident homeopathic practitioners. When our students graduate from CCHM they have all the skills and assets they need to have a successful homeopathic career. Through hands-on experience, personalized mentorship, and exposure to diverse cases, we prepare our students to embrace their professional journey with poise and expertise.

Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey that combines knowledge with practical experience? Join us at the Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine and be a part of a legacy of proficient homeopathic practitioners. Your journey begins here.

Ode To Being An Externship Supervisor

Students are always very concerned about their first Externship patient – did I ask the right questions? Did I get enough relevant symptoms? Shall I record the initial consultation? ShallI type while they talk? Can I hand write? How can I take notes and listen well plus ask the needed questions? OMG I have 30 pages of notes WHAT DO I DO NOW? Where do I start?

All of this comes together with the careful guidance of a supervisor, who was once a student themselves. We have all been through the program + can speak from experience.

We recommend that students attend at least 2 internship clinics before taking their own private patient consultation. This is so that the student can get a feel for how the internship clinic practitioner takes a consultation, and how an analysis and write up of the case will look.

Externship is where the student will bring together the skills that they have learned. Once they are ready to take a case, submit the analysis and prescription, s/he will meet with their supervisor to discuss the work. There will be times that a student is asked to go back to the patient to ask for more detail. This might feel embarrassing for a student but I have never come across an unwilling patient. These first patients are also typically friends and/or family who have been struggling with symptoms for years without relief , and this may be their first experience of Homeopathy.

It is wonderful to work with students, to encourage them and note how they refine their skills and gain confidence. I often see many successful responses to remedies which is always a joy. We all learn from each other so sharing and being part of that growth is very fulfilling.

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