Hello,

does anybody have a diplom for medicine empiric (homeopathy, naturopathy, anything else) obtained at foreign school and had it accepted and recognized in Switzerland?

I am very confused, currently I know of two organizations RME and ASCA who can recognize my profession in Switzerland and list me as acredited practicioner (and so clients can get the fees reimbursed by health insurance). However they both work on different basis;

1/ RME does not care of the institution (quality, size, international recognition) but of the hours studied both medicine empirice and medicine academique. Surprisingly in CH the required hours for MA are higher than for ME.. My problem here is that my school in UK provides 400 or max 575 (taking additional cours not relevant to my core subject) hours of MA. The requirement is 600 hours.

2/ ASCA - I can not reach them to figure out how to have them approve my diploma. On their site there is a list of acredited schools but they all are swiss.

Has anyone has the experience with running own practice in Geneva and doing the paperwork which comes along? I would greatly appreciate any advise, else I become mad soon :) !!

thanks!!