The Health Professional Licensing Administration

Faith-Based & Evidence based Medicine of the 21st Century- Federally Registered & Authorized to issue Class B National Licensing

The mission of the Integrative Pastoral Medical Association & National Commision-Apprenticeship & Certification Board of Integrative & Pastoral Medicine® is to protect the public by licensing and regulating practitioners of Integrative & Pasroral Medicine. Physiciens, Therapists, Educators, Consultants and Pastoral Counselors. The Board will promote physician excellence and will foster communication within the profession and with the public.

The National Commission-Apprenticeship & Certification Board, established  the 1996 Via Charter & Ecclesiastical Legislature & registered with the United States Trademark & Patent Organization as a Federal Class B Occupational Licensing Authority(Certification Mark/Licensing), is empowered to protect the public by licensing and regulating Integrative & Pastoral Medicine physicians, Therapists, Educators, Consultants & Pastoral Counselors in the United States & Internationally.

VISION

• To protect the health, safety and welfare of the public in the matters of care provided by Pastoral Medical & Pastoral Healthcare Practitioners in the USA & Internationally.

• To establish professional standards, regulate the official definition &  scope of practice of Integrative Pastoral Medicine® as a primary care, specialty care & humanitarian healthcare service within the mainstream global Integrative & holistic healthcare community

• To ensure practitioners have met highly specialized academic, clinical, moral & interpersonal skills & training in order to effectively practice the profession & ministry of "Integrative Pastoral Medicine"

MISSION

The mission of the IPMA/NC-ACBIPM is to first give honor & credit to the Eternal Creator, who is the source of all healing, sciences, herbal medicines & intellectual advancment that has existed since the beginning of time & continues to evolve throughout each generation. Our responsibility is to protect the public by improving upon standards of faith based healthcare offered by licensed & registered practitioners through ensuring competency in education, clinical skills, spiritual/moral growth & development and enhancing communication with the pastoral medical profession and the public.

•  We aspire to bridge the gap between faith & science  so that we can promote a greater hope & more effective "healing arts"  to the nations.

• We seek to maintain a board of practitioners with a diversity of talents, skills & callings, in a evidence & faith  based capacity, who are able to work & network together in a cooperative environment for the greater good of the global community. Integrating both Allopathic practitioners(i.e. MDs, DO's, Nurses, Physiotherapists & Psychotherapist) & Natural Medicine practitioners(i.e.IMDs, NMDs, DNMs,OMDs, DC's, Midvives, Acupuncturists & Pastoral Counselors/Naturopathic Psycho-therapist) who have chosen to incorporate the  Pastoral Medicine sciences into their practices & specialities in order to give the public a more empowered choice of healthcare services that can meet all of their needs, physically, spiritually/culturally and mentally.

•  This includes promoting "interfaith" & "cultural diversity" compentency training & continuing education for all practitioners & encouraginf practitioners to work within their own religious affiliations & also to practice with sensitivity with regards to patients cultural & spiritual diversity.

• It is through this mission that "true Integrative medicine" is established. 

 
We are the only Pastoral Medical Licensing Board in the United States that is registered with the Federal Government & owns the Legal rights to define & regulate the scope of practice of the profession of "Integraive Pastoral Medicine®" through the USPTO to issue Certification Marks & National Class B Occupational Licenses in Integrative Pastoral Medicine®. No other organization, association or ecclesiastical entity has any Authorization via the IPMA to issue such Licenses in pastoral medicine. All Rights Reserved!!

Click here for the "official" Legal Definition of Pastoral Medicine Science®

 

Rapha Kasherim Marpe Ro'eh(Aramaic: Health & Fitness through Pastoral Medicine Science®)

Jubilees 10:7-13, Sirach 38:1-15: Representing Eastern Talmudic Medicine & Mizrahi Jewish Science, Ayurvedic Medicine, Pastoral Psychotherapy & Counseling, Clinical Naturopathic Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Unani & Siddha, Greek Medicine, Islamic Medicine, Oriental Medicine, Afro-Asiatic Indigenous  & Ethno-Medicine, Mayan Medicine, Tropical Medicine, Rural, Humanitarian, Emergency & Missionary Medicine, Hebrew Midwifery, Maternity & Natural Child Birth & Primary Care(Integrative Family Life Care®). Professionally Licensing & Certifying Pastoral Medicine® Physicians, Doctors, Therapists, Educators & Consultants.

LEGAL NOTICE TO CEASE AND DESIST TO ERIC CARTER & THE PASTORAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION IN CAYUGA TEXAS!!!

CLICK HERE FOR NOTICE FROM DEMING, PARKER, HOFFMAN,  CAMPBELL & DALY LLC:
We are Not in any way affiliated to the Pastoral Medical Association that operates in Nevis West Indies and Texas. We are the Trademark Holders of "Integrative Pastoral Medicine®" and any combination usage of such term. Pastoral Medicine is a Registered Certification Mark®

We do not recognize this organization nor their licensure, practitioners! & so-called accreditted instiutions!  Any Colleges, Institutions or Practitioners who claim accreditation or licensure to Pastoral Medicine but does not use the above herein Organization symbol of the Apprenticeship and Certification Board" & Registered Certification mark "®", are NOT Accreditted nor Authorized by "The actual Integrative Pastoral Medical Association" herein registered with the USPTO & Government as both an ecclesiastical & occupational license Authority. We have not authorized any other organizations or associations to use "Integrative Pastoral Medicine®" or "any" combination of the name either alone or with other words or phrases  nor our intellectual property & ideas without our permission.  We are in the process of taking legal & possible criminal action to protect our Registered Certification Mark & Intellectual property of those who HIDE BEHIND PO BOXES & will pursue and prosecute anyone who is caught advertising our registered Certification Marks  without authorized permission & appropriate licensing via the IPMA. All right explicity reserved. That includes any practitioners or Institutions advertsing they are licensed, certified in Pastoral Medicine from the PMA ran by Eric Carter.

ANY PRACTITIONERS OR ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS WHO SOLITICS, ADVERTISES AND/OR CLAIMS TO HAVE A DOCTOR OF PASTORAL MEDICINE CERTIFICATION, LICENSE OR REGISTRATION, THAT DOES NOT HAVE THE "®" AFTER HIS/HER CREDENTIALS IS NOT LICENSED NOR AUTHORIZED BY THIS LICENSING & CERTIFICATION BOARD TO PRACTICE PASTORAL MEDICINE® IN ANY CAPACITY & IS DEEMED TRADEMARK/CERTIFICATION MARK INFRINGING AND WILL BE ADDED TO A COLLECTIVE DATABASE TO BE BLACKLISTED AND PROSECUITED. ANY PRACTITIONER OR INSTITUTION CAUGHT USING "®" "TM", AND IS NOT AUTHORIZED BY OUR CERTIFICATION BOARD TO DO SO,  WILL BE PURSUED FOR CRIMINAL & CIVIL PROSECUTION.

ALL PRACTITIONERS LEGITIMATELY LICENSED/REGISTERED TO PRACTICE "PASTORAL MEDICINE" WILL HAVE THE REGISTERED ® SUFFIX AS APART OF THEIR CREDENTIALS (I.E. MD(P)®,  I-HD(P)®, PMC® ETC ETC...

Please also note that anyone can "use religion" or the term "Pastoral"  to practice "questionable healthcare" without having any official standards or quality of service or evidence based clinical skills. Many people calling themselves Doctors and therapists use "bogus" religious credentials to practice based on "internet or seminar only training" & use questionable diagnostic devices and procedures that are not CLIA Registered or FDA Class registered(i.e. many EDS devices, Live Blood analysis, methane blue etc) & are nothing more than gimmicks to rip people off and they also pose a potential risk to the public when they have no true accountability.

Our Licensing Board is designed to "PREVENT THIS CIRCUMVENTION OF STATE & FEDERAL LAWS" by predator practitioners using "religion" who prey on the ignorance of the public. We provide a wealth of information on the practice of Pastoral Medicine, its history, standards and protocols for the public to have direct access to. We respect the diversity of religion being incorporated into Health Arts and Sciences, but do not respect Religious predators, especially those who have a history of stealing intellectual property and creating knock off organizations and claiming it for themselves to make money off of people...

Lanham (Trademark)Act:

■Section 32: “Any person who shall, without the consent of the registrant — use in commerce any reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation of a registered mark in connection with the sale, offering for sale, distribution, or advertising of any goods or services on or in connection with which such use is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive . . . shall be liable in a civil action by the registrant. . . .”[6]

■Section 43: “Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, or any false designation of origin, false or misleading description of fact, or false or misleading representation of fact, which — is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with another person, or as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods, services, or commercial activities by another person . . . shall be liable in a civil action by any person who believes that he or she is or is likely to be damaged by such act.”[7]

Please read the entire trademark infringement here

 

 

Integrative Pastoral Medicine Logo is ©1996, Israelite Torah Covenant Community. USPTO Registered . All Rights Reserved without prejudice.

                      

*Benefits of Licensure:  

• You will enjoy the benifits of legal Protection & the right to practice Integrative Pastoral Medicine® in all 50 states under state exemption laws;

• Assistance with additional mandatory registrations to be compliant with Federal CLIA & HIPAA Laws &  registration to obtain a NPI number(National Provider Identification, your new Healthcare social security number; for Pastoral Medicine Physicians, Doctors, Therapists & Counselors ) to establish your presence in the Healthcare World;

•   Board Certification recognizing your field of education and expertise; enlisting in our Practitioner database & patient/client referrals; 

• Access to a MyWebPMD Personalized Website for your office convenience(Physicians and Doctorate level only, optional);

•  Access to valuable continuing education, latest updates in the advancement of Naturopathic, Homeopathic and Oriental Medicine;

• Registration and access to Advanced Licensed Laboratories(Physicians, Therapist Only);

• Access to  evidence based tools and programs used to keep you up to date with disease & integrative & natural clinical treatments to  help you assess your patients/clients needs;

•  Access to clinically proven Herbal Medicine that are prescribed through FDA/cGMP/NSF Registered Pharmacies & Dispensaries*(see licensure requirements section for more detail);

• introduction to other International networks & organizations partnering with IPMA to advance Pastoral and Holistic Medicine, Rural, Humanitarian & Emergency Healthcare training, discounts,  etc etc).

• Professional Liability Insurance

 

We believe in treating our Affiliates and Healthcare professionals as Family. We believe in respect, dignity, integrity, honesty & unity!!

 

Application & Licensure

Application for License $495.00 USD Licensure/ Renewal $185.00 USD Initial Supportive Membership Donation fee $32.00 USD Board Certification Renewal $185.00 USD

Scientific vs Un-Scientific Methods of Holistic Wellness Analysis

Have you noticed & are you concerned about some of the weird folklore therapies(i.e. crystals, energy healing, hypnotherapy, witchery and sorcery practices, online cure for all & multi-level marketing herbal supplements schemes that are not in compliance with cGMP/FDA standards & other un-registered non-clinical over the counter herbal  & mineral supplements etc)  & un-scientific diagnostic methods(i.e live blood cell analysis, un-registered electro-dermal screening devices or any labs or diagnostics not done under a Federal CLIA registered facility etc) being promoted by other organizations that pose a health risk to the public that is not registered or in compliance with cGMP, HIPAA & FDA standards?  Would you like to become an effective healer and have training certification to be eligible to have access to scientific evidence based Wellness Assessment tools that are CLIA, FDA and HIPAA compliant & places you in compliance with proper federal registrations with the Department of health in your state and local city? Would you like to be trained in Evidence based Natural Clinical Medicine with access to FDA & cGMP registered Pharmacies & Dispensaries? Going above & beyond folk medicine remedies?  Would you like to no longer have to duck & hide from your Government & have all proper government registrations  and feel confident as an effective Natural Healer?  Then we have already paved the path for you & this is the Association you want to join & be apart of!! We are the Edenic Kingdom solution to providing Licensure, Board Certifications & training in  Pastoral basedl HealthCare & Natural/Naturopathic & Integrative faith & evidenced  based Healthcare also known legally as Integrative Pastoral Medicine®!! 

Through our affiliate organizations and Institutions we also offer solutions to training  in Eastern Medicine Sciences with hands on clinical apprenticeship & distant education research under Licensed & Board Certified Healthcare professionals(MDs, OMDs, NDs, NMDs, Licensed Mid-wives[LPM), LMT's, Psy.D(PC) etc) through our registered Yeshiva(College)!

 

Warning: Always check the background of any organization you plan to join for their Board Certifications and/or Licensing. There are quite a few organizations that use religion as the basis for their practice but do not have high standards of accountability & may actually be foreign entities. Some use fraudulent Soveriegn Citizen Tactics to prey upon & take away their practitioner rights without the practitioners informed consent. Some Organizations with similar sounding names are linked to(or have members who are) false ecclesiastical orders & organizations connected with International Banking Fraud & other Schemes. PLEASE PLEASE beware that you may end up signing your rights away to some false foreign Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction!!.  If you are unable to reach an alleged Board Certification or Licensing Authority by phone or they only provide email or a PO BOX as the only contact or if they are not based in the USA but claims to operate in the USA, beware of them, because you will NOT have any legal remedy with a non domestic organization should they abuse your rights or should you have any grievances!! They are most likely frauds(this does not mean that all Int'l non domestic organizations are fraudulent, as we are affiliated with several reputable international certification organizations, just do your homework first).