Alethea Fleming, ND Education Medical Resources for NDs: Review of Current Publications for the Naturopathic Industry Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is terrifying, not only because it is common (half of all Americans have AD by age 85), but because standard treatment for it...
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Working with LGBTQ Patients: The Importance of Increasing Cultural Competency – Part 2
Abigail Egginton, ND Naturopathic Perspective This is the second part of a 2-part article discussing competent care for LGBTQ patients. Part 1 discussed the recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) determination of sexual and gender minorities (SGM) as a health...
Q & A with Maryland University of Integrative Health’s (MUIH) Dean of Naturopathic Doctorate Program, Dr. Elizabeth Pimentel, N.D.
What is the Maryland University of Integrative Health's mission statement? The mission of Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) is: A distinctive community of scholars, researchers, practitioners, and advocates, Maryland University of Integrative Health...
Environmental Scan: Naturopathic Education, 2017-2018
David J. Schleich, PhD Education Effective environmental scanning takes time to prepare, and our various college and university administrators have less time for it than they’d like. They do their best to survey and interpret appropriate data to get the lowdown on...
Maryland University of Integrative Health to Open School of Naturopathic Medicine in Fall 2018
Graduate Program will be the First of its Kind in the mid-Atlantic Region Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH), a national leader in the education and practice of natural medicine, announced today that it will welcome its first class of naturopathic...
Professional Identity Formation
David J. Schleich, PhD Education Making Sense of Hobbled Matriculation Numbers in 2017-18 Most naturopathic programs in North America this year are experiencing a decline in likely matriculation cohorts for Fall 2017, which pencils out as a slump in enrollment through...
Naturopathic Medicine as Application
David J. Schleich, PhD Education What We Don’t Want to Happen Two terms from the computer industry, the “app” and the “backplane,” are handy concepts to use when drilling down into the threat to our decades-long efforts to ramp up naturopathic medical education. We...
The Dean of 2020 – Part 2
David J. Schleich, PhD Education Conceptual Competencies for the Naturopathic Academic Manager – Part 2 Last month we began a discussion of the competencies which our Deans will need as we close in on the end of the decade in a higher education and healthcare...
The Dean of 2020
David Schleich, ND Conceptual Competencies: Part 1 Education Naturopathic Deans make or break naturopathic medical education. This group of about two dozen NDs around North America have been described more than once as the profession’s most enduring visionaries. Over...
Academic Medicine: The Triad is Now a Quartet
David Schleich, PhD Education Professional Formation of the Square In the higher education field, which impinges as never before on naturopathic education, there is a persistent debate underway about the changing nature of work in academic medicine. Traditional...