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WHAT
ARE THE ART of PM BOOK
AND
The Health Professional's HOLISTIC PRACTICE MANAGEMENT PLAN FORMAT
DESIGNED TO DO IN CLASS TRAINING?
- Specifically
meet the teaching criteria of the accreditation requiremetns
for all areas in Practice (Business) Management and Ethics.
The
500+book and the professional level plan format are designed
to provide full preparation to enter and maintain successful
practices. This can certainly happen within a 45 hour practice
management class. The Counsel of Chiropractic Education (CCE)
recommends 90. Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and other fields
may not have made recommendations for number of hours, so much
as content to be covered for proficiency. Practice management
training has been used in shorter cycles and often been bridged
into different classes so the professional practice plan is
completed by graduation. The requirement of graduates is for
an understanding of certain content (provided in the Art
of PM text) and the evidence of competency, which the The
Health Professional's Holistic PM Plan Format can show strong
evidence. The
reading in the Art of PM text links step by step with 22 sections
of the Holistic Practice Management Plan Format. The
HPPM Plan Format can be done as homework toward its completion
as the term project.
More than a ”test of competence,” the plan shows the
blueprint for the practice, which also strongly meets funding
requirements for loans to beginning practices after graduation.
Also see write up on use in Ethics and
Risk Management classes.
- Just
as holistic thought applicable to healing practice transforms
one's perception of healing, its applicability in this book
transforms your student's perception of “business”
to work more naturally for them.
No
ordinary dry business book, the authors in this book bridge
the soul and spirit of a holistic approach with business and
management.
The holistic view in this book expands the view of the workings
of practice from what was formerly limited in western terminology
to the nuts and bolts of practice. Furthermore, the book and
the plan are designed to provide full preparation to enter and
maintain successful practices. The concept of "business"
itself changes in the process of reading, writing, inquiring,
listening and working with the materials. The HP Holistic PM
Plan Format grounds the the holistic understandings and helps
the students integrate their destiny, intention and practical
applications during preparation.
- Designed
to do what class notes and verbal instruction are not sufficient
alone to do– to give your students a solid start in practice.
We get feedback all the time from new graduates that it is just
very difficult to create a practice from class notes. There
are no indexes or easy way to organize and reference what is
needed. Far more details can be communicated in a text than
the instructor has time or energy to do, and these details need
to be referenced in critical and key practice preparation decision-making,
as well as over time.
History has repeated itself time and again to show the following
scenario:
The majority of your graduates probably couldn't pay to
go to a professional level seminar and get a text and professional
level plan if they didn't get it in school. There are those
who will try to go it on their own without mentors, texts or
plans and will often be part of the 8 out of 10 statistic that
fail in practice. Other graduates feel the pressure of beginning
practice economically, and may not have the will, the time,
the space, know-how or finances to put themselves on a self-study
planning program, as opposed to practice planning in a structured
setting that your class can provide. Many graduates move quickly
into the fire cycle when they get out of school, and they believe
they have passed the cycle of incubation and planning, and plunge
into practice. If they haven't done solid planning, they go
immediately into crisis management. Many struggle for about
two years and change professions. Does this truly need to happen?
We encourage
instructors to weigh the value and timing of the Art of PM and
Plan for the incubation and planning cycle of class with the
cost of your students' practice success.
- Designed
to provide the foundation of successful practice. The
book is a comprehensive text that contains the seed thoughts
of a number of master practitioners who have reputable successful
practices and understand the energy of what clarifies and moves
the practice creatively.
- Designed
to engage more of the learners senses.
The text and plan used together allow the learner to engage
more of his or her senses for deeper learning–reading,
listening, asking, sensing, writing–particularly vital
in practice preparation or class time when the habit patterns
in practice management are being established. The approach is
unique in that it written to engage the use of both the yin
intuitive internal knowing based intelligences and the yang
or analytical based intelligences to integrate with our external
environment.
- Designed
to free up classroom time for more interactive participation
and meaningful discussion. The
comprehensive materials already provide the foundation and expertise
on a broad range of issues, policies, procedures and approaches.
These materials further facilitate the surfacing of issues and
deeper understandings for discussion. Providing reading and
writing homework in these materials can free the instructor
to shift from the role of authority to that of facilitator in
the group or class room.
The time and energy of the classes, therefore, can be directed
to more interactive participation and meaningful discussion,
thereby meeting more directly the needs and concerns of the
individuals and group.
We have a number of instructors who feel there is not enough
time to communicate all they want to communicate about practice
management to their students in the time frame they have, are
aware of the high attrition rate and are quite concerned. We
encourage you to share Jason Stein's
letter with administrators, particularly concerning the
number of hours alotted to practice management. There are also
ways of structuring practice management so that the practice
materials can be taken to and used in related classes. This
can also reduce the stressfulness around trying to communicate
so much with the time alloted. Feel free to call or email the
primary author of the materials at From Tao to Earth to consider
some alternatives.
- Designed
to be available and used by both instructor and student to prepare
for success. In
20-20 hindsight, many practitioners look back and give us national
feedback that had they been informed of these materials, or
had they been required and not just optional in their practice
management classes, they would have fared far better. At a time
when potential practitioners have a tendency to be penny wise-pound
foolish in making their purchase choices, required reading in
the book and doing the success plan, which is known to increase
competency and confidence, could have made the difference between
struggle and costly mistakes or success in their practices.
Designed to meet the challenges in creating successful practice.
While there have been a few very dedicated practitioners who
have done a remarkable job in legislation, and the public interest
is peaked, the ability of practitioners to sustain their practices
has been relatively low as the above statistics showed.
There are still yet many schools who have not given their students
the benefit of using texts to study not only risk management,
but practice management. Furthermore, most businesses and practices
fail without a successful practice plan. Many instructors haven't
seen the records of success of their students' practices 2 years
down the road.
We can continue to evaluate not only whether we feel good about
what we teach, but consider if we are providing all we can to
empower the students to source, organize, be competent and confident
as both healers and as integrated balanced practitioners interfacing
with the world. View practice
management class recommendations to the NCCAOM by practice
management instructor, Jason Stein
- Designed
to be A Primary Hands-On Resource at critical and key moments.
The
text helps students, new and established practitioners make
clear choices at "critical and key moments," both
in situation and in forward-planning–now– and over
the life of one's practice.
- Designed
to help your students open their senses, to help them question,
digest and receive what masterful practice is.
Checking the text out briefly from the library can't give the
learner the kind ofincubation necessary to absorb and apply
the information. Lectures and seminars on practice management
can't replace being able to reference the information when they
need it. Purchasing the materials from the time they are students,
then living and working with the materials when their habit
patterns are being established, as well as over the life of
the practice, is probably one of their greatest allies.
We encourage
instructors to require the text and the plan to allow for the
absorption and focus that is needed for practice success.
WHAT
DOES THE PROFESSIONAL LEVEL PLAN DO ALONG WITH THE TEXT?
- Designed
to create a ”successful” practice plan.
To
create a successful practice plan from scratch takes substantial
time, energy and a great deal of skill on the part of your students.
Building-from-scratch type of plans may not have all the elements
of success, particularly ones created by novices or business-challenged
healers. Your students have the benefit of the wisdom
from many masters writing for the Art of PM text and consultants
who have gotten proven results with the professional level health
care practice plan, such as The AOM Holistic PM Plan.
- Designed
to be used step by step and by subject area.
The
syllabus on our site links
specific reading in the text with each one of the 22 areas in
the Plan, so students can move intelligently in manageable steps.
The syllabus is adaptable so different sections can be used
to fulfill different class requirements in practice management
and create the overall practice plan over a period of time.
- Designed
to help your students to access the Blueprint for Their Practice.
This Plan
doesn't fit them into a box, it brings out their uniqueness.
This is no ordinary plan and text combination.
- Designed
to transform their awareness of successful practice in the process.
It
is the layout, profound and essential questions and choices
in both the book and the plan together which makes it so transforming
for your students and for their upcoming practices.
- Designed
To be a consciousness-raising plan, increasing their competency
and confidence levels,
not just be a crunch the numbers and statistics plan. It helps
your students to discern what they don't know that they don't
know so that they can find out what they need to know to become
more consciously competent practitioners.
- Designed
to bring their mind to clear focus in relationship to their
practice.
Their consciousness
comes to focus at the point of their pen through their words
and intention. The text provides the wisdom seed thoughts, the
plan is the focusing vehicle for their practice.
- Designed
to get your students organized!
It provides long
term savings,
not only in time, energy, and money, but freedom from costly
mistakes in practice.
Can they
really afford not to have this text and plan?
- Designed
to be process-oriented and achieve successful results:
Focussed awareness in preparation, planning and professional
practice = Conscious competency, increased confidence, increased
flow of clear energy through your practice which transmits to
your patients through greater synchronicity and centering on
the practitioner's part.
ARE THE BOOK
AND THE PLAN AFFORDABLE TO STUDENTS?
Comparatively, absolutely. The
Plan is a professional level plan equivalent in quality and available
only in expensive ($2,000) practice management programs provided
in other fields. The AMA charges approximately $150 for 3 125-150
page practice management books on subjects covered in The Art
of PM for Alternative Health Care Practices.
The Art of Practice
Management book, 8 1/2" X 11", 500+ pages is $47.50
The Health Professional's
Holistic Practice Management Plan Format sells for $75. Exception
Spiral bound plan is$45 to your students when PURCHASED TOGETHER
with the Art of PM –discounted by $30! Further school discounts
apply.
Both text and spiral
bound plan together = $90. Please
put the price into perspectives for your students when you tell
them about the materials.
RECAP–BENEFITS
OF REQUIRING AND USING BOTH THE TEXT AND THE PLAN TOGETHER.
- Wisdom
thought, focussed intention, and destiny merge.
The seed
thoughts of the Art of PM with the focus of intention and thought
in the practice plan infuse with your students' destiny–a
powerful way in which internal thought transmits to external
form.
- Generates
awareness in action
in procedure,
in policy,in practice, and in rapport = satisfied and enthusiastic
patients = referrals = Successful Reputable Practice.
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