Jjhp,
Well done on realising the limitations of your experience. You are quite right, you will not be equiped to carry out a flight entirely in IMC, with weather at minima at either end, immediately after completing your IMC course.
But that is not because of the IMC course itself, it's because of your level of experience. After completing the course, if you chose to regularly fly in real IMC (but setting yourself minima which realistically reflect your experience), and to regularly fly approaches to minima under foggles with a safety pilot, you would no doubt soon gain the experience to be able to undertake much more challenging IFR flights - as long as you had access to a suitably equipped aircraft, of course.
FFF
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