Robert Kellum, ND, PhD, MSOM/LAc, LMT Becoming Custodians of Spirit Rudolf Steiner felt that an anthroposophic understanding of “spirit” must not merely be a theoretical view. Rather, it should act as an actual power in life, which, when it truly comes alive within...
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Rethinking How We Support Naturopathic Academic Medicine
David J. Schleich, PhD Our schools are foundations as well as anchors for the profession. For a generation now, naturopathic medicine has resumed its location with more vigor in the waiting rooms of professional formation. How we structure the education of our new...
Nature Cure Clinical Pearls: To Fear or to Trust the Fever?
Sussanna C. Czeranko, ND, BBE The process [fever] should never be disturbed and suppressed by force but must be assisted and directed. -Ludwig Staden, 1902, p. 69 If the morbid matter does not come out in some acute form, it lays the foundation for chronic ailments....
Drowned City Specialists and Gene Screeners: The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be for Naturopathic Medical Education
David Schleich, PhD There are numerous drivers of change affecting the longevity and design of naturopathic medical education in North America these days. For example, genetics and information technology are disrupting medical systems and approaches almost every day....
Natural Approaches to Anxiety: Less Stress When You Don’t Guess
Bradley Bush, ND Anxiety disorder is a generic blanket term outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) that includes generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder (also known as social...
Clinical Uses for a Novel Form of Bioavailable Curcumin
Gaetano Morello, ND Turmeric has a long history of medicinal use in both Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Dubbed the “herb of the sun” because of its deep yellow hue, turmeric is the dried and ground rhizome of the perennial herb Curcuma longa....
What Writing? What Wall?: Not-So-Scary Predictions and Prescriptions for Naturopathic Medical Education
David J. Schleich, PhD Mene, Mene, Tekel u-Pharsin. (Book of Daniel, Chapter 5) Higher education has always been vulnerable, with brief periods of high-octane cash and optimism such as during the mid-1960s, when this country took action about the gap between the...
Part II: What I Learned That Day in Siberia
David J. Schleich, PhD Last month, we considered some of the load-bearing facts of MOOCs, or “massive open online courses,” whose rapidly emerging presence in the higher education landscape is poised to affect naturopathic medical education. Whether we take a closer...
A Conversation With Steve Parcell
Jacob Schor, ND, and Steve Parcell, ND My practice is focused on oncology. Therefore, I have not kept up with new developments related to cardiovascular disease (CVD). When I realized how much of an expert Dr Steve Parcell has become in this area, I started to put...
Part I—Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC): Next—To MOOC or Not to MOOC
David Schleich, PhD Back in the early 1990s, it had already long been going on, but hardly massively. In those days, “distance education” actually spawned professional degree titles for those who used that methodology (e.g., master of distance education, from...