International Homeopathic Society of Supportive Care In Oncology.
The IHSSCO is a learned society which aims to facilitate and develop the practice, teaching, research and promotion of homeopathy within oncological supportive care.
Objectives
To implement the following:
- Train health professionals.
- Develop good practice standards.
- Promote research and evaluation practices.
- Encourage and support the publication of scientific articles.
- Organise and take part in scientific conferences.
- Develop information events among health professionals.
- Develop health promotion events.
- Develop prevention and information events for the general public, and any other action aimed at strengthening the objectives of the association.
Formation
To create a good quality training tool.
- Advise and implement vocational training courses, in homeopathy as in oncology.
- Make an inventory of existing courses and propose new training.
- Pass on our experience and the particularity of our respective practices to new learners.
- Organise an annual scientific convention.
Share
To share experience with peers
- To get to know each other better for better communication between us.
- To unify our practices through the creation of homeopathic supportive care benchmarks in compliance with the principles of similarity, individualisation and infinitesimality.
- To be able to inform a cancer patient who seeks a homeopathic doctor in their area.
Search
To promote research activity
- Share clinical research projects to promote their multicentre character and enhance the impact of the results by being able to recruit a larger number of patients.
- Share our experiences as authors of publications, choose good reviews and the right topics, try co-writing with several authors, promote editing and translations of articles into English.
Communication
To establish a communication pathway
- Share articles and interviews already given in order to speak with one voice in the medical and general press, avoiding traps and pitfalls most often encountered.
- Being attentive to conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical industry to retain freedom of thought and speech. Our scientific credibility demands transparency as regards our links with laboratories.
