Historical Savvy: Its Dearth Hurts
Education David J. Schleich, PhD Quite recently I was in Butler, NJ, to confer with local leaders about the huge importance of their little town in our history. Painfully, the only fragments of [...]
Shifting East: Naturopathy Recalibrates
Education David J. Schleich, PhD Naturopathic medicine is a profession that is busy crafting and holding space in an expensive, eschewing healthcare landscape where orthodox allopathic medicine [...]
New Tosh and Old Adjectives: When Terminology Obfuscates
Education David J. Schleich, PhD Before the widely touted term, “integrative” (clever label), there was “complementary and alternative [CAM]” (opportunistic tosh). Integrates what with what? [...]
Here Comes the Sun: Nimbostratus Clouds & the Naturopathic Profession
Education David J. Schleich, PhD In the past 2 years, matriculation has lagged in the naturopathic programs in North America. The discussions about what happened, why, and what to do have been [...]
Entangling Poetry and Medicine: The Rise of the Medical Humanities
Education David J. Schleich, PhD There are observers who conclude that what is at work these days in medicine, when we see “medical humanities” curriculum popping up as part of allopathic [...]
David & Goliath: Putting Naturopathic Medical Education to the Test
Education David J. Schleich, PhD The Philistines assembled their army at Sokoh in Judah. On the other side of the valley of Elah, the Israelites took up their position. The Philistines proffered [...]
Signifiers Among Us: How Professions Take Shape
David J. Schleich, PhD Education The process of self-determination for any heterodox professional group is uphill, often with a cold wind. The owners of whatever orthodox market terrain is being [...]
Gold Standard or Double Standard?
Sean Elizabeth Jackson, BA (Hons) Jason Marr, BSc (Hons), ND Student Scholarship – 2nd Place Research Review Evidence-Based Healthcare in Medical Malpractice When evidence-based medicine (EBM), [...]
Collaborative Teaching & Learning: What Mary Goggins Taught
David J. Schleich, PhD Education Like all professional education preparatory programs, medical education has 3 tiers, elucidated well by Donald Schon in his seminal 1986 book, Educating the [...]
10 Top Market Realities of Naturopathic Medical Education
David J. Schleich, PhD Education What’s It Really Like Out There? As every naturopathic physician knows, natural medicine is also known these days as “holistic” or “integrative” or “functional.” [...]
