AP2: Anatomy & Physiology Correspondence Course

AP2: 'Anatomy & Physiology' Correspondence Course

This Correspondence Course, leading to a professional qualification and written and tutored by Complementary Therapists, is packed with information. It is designed with Therapists in mind but is relevant to anyone who wishes to increase his or her knowledge of the human body and how it functions. The Course consists of individual lessons and homework and is followed, after completion of the Course, by the Examination.

One of the main aims of the Course is to make learning interesting and fun and to instil in participants a wonder for the human body and how it works.

This Course has been designed to:

1. introduce students to the structure and related functions of the human body that are relevant to the practice of Complementary Medicine and

2. develop understanding of principles and their application in human physiology that underlay the treatments and practices of Complementary Medicine.

Course Content includes:

* The Cell

* Tissues

* Building Blocks

* The Skeletal System and its disorders

* The Muscular System and its disorders

* The Skin and its disorders

* The Digestive System and its disorders

* The Respiratory System and its disorders

* The Cardio-vascular System and its disorders

* The Nervous System and its disorders

* The Reproductive System and its disorders

* The Endocrine System and its disorders

* The Genito-urinary System and its disorders

* The Immune System and its disorders

* Glossary of Terms

Please go to our Course Syllabus page for further details AP3

The Course costs £360. The Examination costs an additional £80. The Course includes all course notes (9 lessons), CDs, tests and corrections at the end of each lesson and 12 months e-mail support from your tutor. You will receive the first lessons by post within 2 weeks of our receipt of your application. You will post, or e-mail (preferred method), completed homework from each lesson to be checked, marked and returned to you.

The homework will count towards 50% of the final marks.

Please note that we do not send the next set of work until you have successful completed the homework form the first set of work.

The examination comprises multiple-choice questions to answer and diagrams to label. A book of multiple-choice questions and diagrams, from which the examination is drawn, is included in the Course-fee for students to research the answers and learn prior to the examination. The aim is to make examination taking as fear-free as possible. This book will be sent with the last 4 lessons.

Examinations usually take place in Ash, Surrey, but you may also take it under the supervision of a Doctor or Lawyer or Clergyman/woman or other suitable professional. If this option is taken, it is the responsibility of the student to arrange and advise us of the qualified supervision.

N.B. Once you have paid for this course and examination there will be no refunds or transfers to other Courses. You will be expected to finish the course within 2 years - unless there are extenuating circumstances.

Students on the Ayurvedic or Aromatherapy Diploma Course or Ayurvedic Diploma Course who are already qualified in A & P must submit their Certificates to obtain exemption.

If you are attending one of our Diploma Courses then any one of the following qualifications exempts you from taking the A & P module - although students who have taken the Course whilst already qualified elsewhere have said how valuable it was to have done so. CIDESCO, MD, Reg, Physiotherapist, GLSCAT, SRN/RGN (only if there is proof that the A&P syllabus has been covered during training), Osteopath, BABTAC, MNIMH, Acupuncture, CIBTAC, IHBC DIP., Association for Holistic Medicine, LCSP, City and Guilds, Radiographer, ITEC, Pharmacist, Occupational Therapist, IA*, 'A' Level Human Biology. * Body-therapist/Masseur(euse)/Anatomy & Physiology.

Accreditations: The International Federation of Professional Aromatherapists (IFPA). Accepted by The Bowen Association (UK), BTER, The Institute of Phytobiophysics, The School of Electro-crystal Therapy, TASK and CThA (Core Therapy 30 Credits). Accepted by ITEC as APL (accreditation for prior learning) subject to ITEC current terms.

		Cost

Application form		£440 including examination