David J. Schleich, PhD Education Building the profession is a many layered enterprise, with education at the core. As the second decade of a new century zooms toward the third, we are increasingly finding our place in the mainstream higher education sector. National...
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling Our Modern Plagues, by Martin Blaser, MD, is a book I am recommending to all my gastroenterology students as well as those on my clinic rotations. It outlines an evidence-based explanation for the trends we...
Rediscovering the Shifting History of Naturopathic Curriculum
Education David J. Schleich, Ph.D. How Palimpsests Explain Content Drift in Naturopathic Medical Curriculum Naturopathic academicians have pretty consistent views on what the four-year ND curriculum is trying to do. Even though they often don’t couch their views in...
22: The Veteran & the Naturopathic Doctor
Education David J. Schleich, PhD Every day of every year, year after year veterans take their own lives. Today 22 did. Yesterday 22 did. Tomorrow 22 will, unless we do something about it. John Bickel, US Army Lt Col (Ret), Ranger (Airborne), West Point There is a...
Medical Resources for NDs
Diane Grise, ND Education A Review of Current Publications for the Naturopathic Industry Holistic Counseling – Introducing “The Vis Dialogue”: Breakthrough Healing Method Uniting the Worlds of Mind-Body Medicine & Psychology Dr Moshe Daniel Block is a true...
Message from the Dean: University of Bridgeport, College of Naturopathic Medicine
Marcia Prenguber, ND, FABNO The faculty and staff of the College of Naturopathic Medicine at the University of Bridgeport (UBCNM), like our colleagues in other schools, are continuously looking for strategies and methods to enhance our program, to create better tools...
A Cornfield for All Seasons: It’s Building Time
David J. Schleich, PhD I love the W. P. Kinsella story about an Iowa corn farmer who decides that the voices he has been hearing inspired him to build a baseball diamond out in his back 20. The quote from Robinson‘s film of Kinsella’s novel about Shoeless Joe Jackson...
The Next Best Past: Looking Back from 2050
David Schleich, PhD A sure way to slow down and eventually stall the co-option of naturopathic modalities, protocols, and philosophy by the allopaths is to be very, very effective in providing health care. Another, parallel, and sure way to prevent the suppression of...
Disruptors Among Us: Training Our Students in EMR/EHR
David Schleich, PhD This opening to the life we have refused again and again, until now. (David Whyte) At various times over the last few decades, lots of things have been touted as valuable, albeit disruptive, innovations in...
R + A = MAP(PF): The Language of Naturopathic Legislation is an Equation
David J. Schleich, PhD Helpful in this exercise was the eloquent work of Yon Maley (1987), whose pioneering analysis of the characteristics of the language used in legislation gave us a lens through which to look. So much of the language (words, paragraph structure,...