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Let Us Doubt Our Ever-Transforming Naturopathic Medical Education Model David Schleich, PhD   Modris Eksteins (2012) argues in his recent book, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age, that we are no longer sure of anything. While advocating that there is nothing more deadly than certainty, Eksteins advises us [...]

How many bosses can a program bear, anyway? David Schleich, PhD Some NDs may think that professional and political governance in our naturopathic medical education programs, of the kind that is routine in public sector higher education, is pretty much under control with Council on Naturopathic Medical Education (CNME) programmatic accreditation. However, almost all our [...]

Governance in Naturopathic Medical Education, Part One David Schleich, PhD   Naturopathic medical education can be found among a number of higher education models, depending on jurisdiction and history. We routinely call all our Council on Naturopathic Medical Education (CNME)–accredited naturopathic programs schools or colleges. Indeed, some are exactly that, and some are not. For [...]

How to Reconnect the Dots and Put Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again Thomas Kruzel, ND, and Zora DeGrandpre, ND At an excellent functional medicine conference in Bellevue, Washington (April 28-30, 2011), “The Challenge of Emerging Infections in the 21st Century: Terrain, Tolerance, and Susceptibility,” several presenters made compelling scientific cases for the infectious root causes [...]

As I write this column, Connecticut has received its third dusting of snow. By the end of January, we should have had several large snowstorms dumping 6 to 18 inches each. However, instead we had record-breaking warm temperatures until the second week of January, with the longest number of days without snow and warmer than [...]