David J. Schleich, PhD The naturopathic medical education network in North America does not include a standardized test among the requirements for admission to its 8 programs. Naturopathic educators rarely, if ever, bring the topic up, either in their own programs or...
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Becoming What We Fight
Specialty Boards in American Naturopathic Medical Education David J. Schleich, PhD These days Elsevier publishes an annual guide to medical specialties of US biomedicine. Unless one is aware of the proliferation of such groups since the 1930s, the list is astonishing...
From Supercal … to fragilistic: Understanding the Undergraduate
David J. Schleich, PhD The fuss and rattle about declining cohorts of undergraduates may turn out to be a bit more alarmist than warranted. Broadly-announced trends about declining pools of upcoming students certainly worry our program deans and admission officers, so...
Blended Learning: Our Trim Tab at Work in Naturopathic Medical Education
David J. Schleich, PhD It has been said that if the Titanic had had a trim tab (a small flap on the back edge of the main rudder; Figure 1), the helmsman could have turned the boat faster and thus have avoided the right-side collision which flooded 5 of her 16...
Blended Learning
Our Trim Tab at Work in Naturopathic Medical Education David J. Schleich, PhD It has been said that if the Titanic had had a trim tab (a small flap on the back edge of the main rudder), the helmsman could have turned the boat faster and thus have avoided the...
the Emergence of fhe iANP: Right Time, Right Place
David J. Schleich, PhD There is a certain irony to the proliferation of interest in “integrative medicine” around the Globe, and more particularly here in the United States. As I have suggested in earlier columns, the wide adoption of holistic therapies and...
Oral-Systemic Health Care: Interview With Dan Sindelar, DMD
Mark Swanson, ND It is with great honor and pleasure to have Daniel Sindelar, DMD, as my interview guest for this segment of The Expert Report. Dr Sindelar earned his dental degree at Washington University School of Dental Medicine in 1981. He is a practicing dentist...
Message from the President
National College of Natural Medicine David J. Schleich One day early this winter I noticed a visitor from my office window. She was studying a sign on one of our outside building walls which reads, “NCNM, since 1956.” Later she commented, “Didn’t realize you had been...
Part 2: Keeping Up With the Past ND Students and Nature-cure Education
David J. Schleich, PhD Recovery, many naturopathic doctors insist, occurs because of Nature, in the end. Detractors of this perspective don’t dismiss it out of hand entirely, but attribute its features to naturopaths who, they feel, have more in common with Whorton’s...
Naturopathic Practice: The Model I Hold Dear
Reverend Steven A. Bailey, ND In 1977 I was living a vegetarian lifestyle, juice and water fasting, doing yoga, meditation, herbal studies, massage, and reflexology. Okay, people occasionally called me a hippie. When I learned of the naturopathic college in my home...