Onsite, Online, and On-hand
Education FRASER SMITH, MATD, ND Teaching and learning are 2 sides of a coin that leads to education. That makes it intrinsically a social construct, albeit with objective, [...]
Embracing Diversity in Curricula: Not Seen, Not Heard, Not Spoken, Not Learned
Education Fraser Smith, MATD, ND The opportunities for embracing diversity and racism issues in our curricula are limitless and must be met [...]
Message from the President: Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine
Education PAUL MITTMAN, ND, EDD Like a swell in the ocean, the COVID-19 pandemic felt distant throughout the winter. It broke on SCNM’s shores as the winter quarter neared its [...]
Message from the President: Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
Education BOB BERNHARDT, BSC, MED, LLM, PHD As for most institutions across North America and beyond, the last 6 months have involved many challenges and many corresponding [...]
Keeping Calm and Carrying On: Will the Walls of Medical Education Come Tumbling Down?
Education DAVID J. SCHLEICH, PHD There are many aspects of naturopathic medical education which are being reviewed, repurposed, and reorganized right now. In the [...]
Candid Post-Covid Considerations: Protecting Our Core Ideas in Naturopathic Education
Education David J. Schleich, PhD As our digital and local lives expand and our physical and global ones contract, this sea change will create and destroy value. (Mark Carney, 2020) In the [...]
The Brave New World of eLearning: Let’s Not Strap on Feathered Wings
Education David J. Schleich, PhD Dickens nailed it when he wrote in 1859, “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” [A Tale of Two Cities] Two centuries later, the best and the [...]
Spreading Our Wings a Little More: Every Bit Helps
Education David J. Schleich, PhD The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) reports that, for 6 years now, postsecondary enrollments in America have [...]
Public Sector Higher Ed: Slippery Slope or the Next Best Path?
Education David J. Schleich, PhD We’ve been sparring with the biomedicine industry all along the professional formation continuum (education, research, licensing) for a very long time. We [...]
How to Make a Living: Naturopathic Grads Have a Decision to Make
Education David J. Schleich, PhD At the end of a long day at a recent conference, a half-dozen new naturopathic doctors, just recovering from NPLEX, were looking for advice. They sought [...]
