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Main topics for discussion may include
- Clinical case studies
- TCM clinical use of herbs (Chinese and non-Chinese)
- Diet and nutrition, environmental health issues
- TCM theory
- Use of databases and software in clinical analysis and study
- Other modalities: western medicine...
- Medically-defined diseases
- Clinical research
- Phytochemistry/pharmacognosy
- Ethnobotany
- Health politics and law
- Herbal and medical history
RMHI-network is a limited-membership private discussion group created by the Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute to
provide its students, graduates, staff, and invited guest herbalists a means to
communicate with others who are versed in the philosophy, terminology,
and practice of clinical TCM herbology. RMHI-network provides a respectful and civilized environment for discussing professional topics that avoids the basic misunderstandings that often permeate public discussions.
TCM methodology provides useful insights into clinical research design, interpretation of phytochemical research, environmental health, epidemiology, and other health sciences. These latter topics are also fair subjects for commentary and discussion, as well as regulatory, political, and current events affecting TCM herbalists and health care in general.
Note to Level-1 students:
The Traditional Chinese Herbal Sciences CD-ROM is the primary TCM Herbology reference you will be using as your self-study reference and guidebook. Additionally, the "Student Toolbox" area of our website contains archives of hundreds of common questions, including case studies, asked by new students over a several-year period. Distance-learning courses on technical subjects are frequently criticized for being dry and boring, which is exacerbated by the lack of personal interaction with other classmates. We have attempted to overcome these limitations of the email discussion group by including weekly "news updates" on worldwide current events affecting our health and wellbeing. We include everything from the scholarly paper to the provocative and outrageous rumor and encourage you to exercise your skills in critical thinking to discuss and evaluate this information.
For further information, please contact Roger Wicke, Ph.D., the RMHI-network moderator.
To participate in RMHI-network, members must abide by
the following guidelines:
- Student homework. Although certification-course participants are encouraged to help each other with general questions about the course material and homework, answers to any privately assigned homework problems should remain the work of each participant. The independent effort that each makes toward completing homework is an important and integral part of the program.
- Respectful discussion.
Honor the unique experiences and perspectives of other
members as you would like them to honor yours. If you disagree
with the views expressed in a posted message, state your reasons
clearly, logically, and respectfully.
RMHI-network is a private communications medium, and
administrators and moderators reserve the right to deny access
at their sole discretion.
- Confidentiality and privacy.
Postings and archives are intended to be
for the use of course participants and group members; members, moderators, and administrators should adhere to
this guideline. However, due to the inherent insecurities of the
Internet, confidentiality cannot be guaranteed, so exercise your own discretion. Please obtain permission from your client before posting case information to the group. Never refer to a clinical case by the individual's name or other personal identifier.
- Regarding personal case studies that you might wish to discuss: so as to protect the confidentiality of the client, you are encouraged to submit case studies to me personally at
http://www.rmhiherbal.org/contact/
I will then repost them with your name and email address removed, so that other list members will not know either your identity or that of your client.
- Permission to quote material. If you wish to quote or reproduce
postings by a member, for use outside this discussion list,
you should ask the original poster for permission to use his or her material.
- Educational purposes only.
RMHI-network is intended for educational purposes
only, and is not intended as a substitute for medical diagnosis
and treatment. By using RMHI-network, you agree to assume full
responsibility for verifying the
appropriateness of any information before applying it to
individual cases.
- RMHI not responsible for email messages posted by users.
The Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute and RMHI-network moderators
and administrators shall not be held responsible or liable for
messages and content posted by users to the email discussion group; administrators do not control or edit such content. However, they reserve the right to remove postings from the archives if such postings are offensive or may violate copyright or trademark laws, if and when such violations are called to their attention.
- Advertising prohibited.
While announcements and reviews of events, publications, etc. are welcome
as part of the educational purpose of RMHI-network, advertising is prohibited.
If you think your message may be perceived as advertising, submit
it to the moderator for review before posting it.
RMHI-network is a conventional mailing list discussion group in which each member may post messages that are sent to all group members simply by sending a message to the group email address. RMHI-network is moderated by Roger Wicke, Ph.D., and is hosted on Yahoo!-Groups.
Anonymous submissions:
If you wish to anonymously submit a question about course material or other topic, you are welcome to send your question to the group moderator ("Contact Us" - attention Roger Wicke, Ph.D.) and he will post it to the group with your name removed. Please indicate in your message that it is intended for anonymous posting to RMHI-network, or include "For RMHI-network, anonymous:" at the top of your message. We encourage participation, and if you have a question, by all means ask it - others may learn from the answers and discussion.
To access the archives, please enter your assigned username (not your real name) and password when requested.
Archive guidelines
- Message posts of special value to members and future members may be archived in the password-protected "Study Toolbox" area of the RMHI
website:
- http://www.rmhiherbal.org/eductools/index.html
All members have been assigned a unique username and password to access this area; if you've forgotten or misplaced your access codes, please ask the moderator, Roger Wicke, Ph.D., to email them to you.
- If an archived message includes text contributed by you, you may
request that the moderator edit or make corrections to the archived
version, including whether you wish to have your name attributed or to
remain anonymous. For current RMHI students, the default will be that all of your archived questions and comments will remain anonymous - your name and email address will be removed; in the past this has helped to encourage participation.
- If an archived message includes discussion of a clinical case study with symptom details, the moderator will remove the original poster's name and email address, to increase the confidentiality of the client.
- Yahoo!-Groups does not archive RMHI-network list messages - this feature has been disabled. (When forming this discussion group, we decided that automatic archiving of all messages would inhibit ordinary discussion.)
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