David J. Schleich, PhD In astronomy, the term “syzygy” refers to alignments, such as when the sun, the earth, and the moon line up to create conjunctions, oppositions, or occultations (we know them as solar or lunar eclipses). From time to time, but inevitably,...
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Blurry Governance: Watching Pots Boil
David J. Schleich, PhD The kernel of the issue is that academic governance and corporate governance are not the same. They share similar processes but live in different valleys. CNME oversight of standards is a form of governance, although it is at arm’s length. Its...
Clicking with the Dark Side: IPC and IPE in Our Time
David J. Schleich, PhD Not infrequently these days, there is interest expressed among naturopathic professionals and certain of their allopathic colleagues to collaborate in practice as well as in education. How great it can be for patients when 2 or more professions...
Nature Cure Clinical Pearls: Ludwig Staden, Naturarzt
Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE The principal physiological cause of all diseases is found in the blood, which causation we call dysaemia or defective composition of the blood. This is the root of all ailments, we therefore may say, [there] exists only one disease, which...
Q&A with Michael Schanz, President of the Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine
You have an extensive background as a CEO in a diverse number of industries, what will your experience bring to the Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine? Running a business has to do with having a vision and a strong desire to execute on that. That desire comes...
Whack-a-Mole: The Future of Naturopathic Medical Education
David J. Schleich, PhD I’m hoping that by the end of the decade we might have amped up enough to catch up. Even then, though, we may still be worried about how to keep our naturopathic education programs fine-tuned to what is needed in the healthcare landscape. At the...
Important Factors in Naturopathic Professional Formation (part 4 in a series)
Canadian naturopathic doctors faced a bumpy road in trying to position their naturopathic college in the higher education landscape. Understanding and defining the formation of naturopathy as a heterodox system of naturopathic medicine exhibits some of what Geiger...
Brand-New Old Mistakes Not to Make: Naturopathic Education Letting the Clutch Out
David J. Schleich, PhD Nobody said it was going to be easy. The stakes have always been high socially and economically, but never so high as today. The biomedicine industry knows we are better organized now than back when it all began. We’re in better shape...
The Posse is Coming: Competition in the Naturopathic Education Sector
David J. Schleich, PhD Private education keeps expanding in this age of LMS capability and Millennials. This continuing growth in the higher-education food chain, some argue, persists despite the recent aftershocks of student loan levels and default rates for those...
Millennials are us Well, not yet, but soon enough
David J. Schleich, PhD Some years back, my generation started talking about “echo boomers,” but Straus and Howe (2000) nailed it with the term “millennials.” Then the Pew Research Center made it official a decade and a half later (2015). This demographic – the...