A Scientific Education: Part 3

FRASER SMITH, MATD, ND  In my previous 2 articles, we examined how science and medicine have become intertwined as our contemporary forms of health care took shape. We also looked at how naturopathic medicine retooled its educational systems...

A Scientific Education: Part 2

FRASER SMITH, MATD, ND  No matter the obstacles they place, the truth of our medicine will win out.  (John Bastyr)1  If we take the phrase “modern world” to denote the advent of a society using technology at a higher level than ever seen, based on an...

A Scientific Education: Part 1

FRASER SMITH, MATD, ND  Naturopathic medical education is deeply rooted in science, and those roots extend in several directions. One aspect of this rootedness is the education we provide to students on how to evaluate the evidence...