David J. Schleich, PhD Education Like all professional education preparatory programs, medical education has 3 tiers, elucidated well by Donald Schon in his seminal 1986 book, Educating the [...]

David M. Brady, ND, DC, CCN, DACBN Letter to the Editor I read with great pleasure the article in NDNR’s November 2017 issue, entitled “Rethinking Curriculum: Toward an Integrated Program in [...]

David Chandross, BSc, MSc, MEd, PhD Fraser Smith, MATD, ND Education Naturopathic medical education has indeed come a long way in the last 50 years, from a single school in the Pacific Northwest [...]

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 [...]

David Schleich, PhD We well know the central importance to professional formation of our teachers’ skills. Their ability to convey theoretical, didactic, and clinical knowledge, skills, and [...]

David Schleich, PhD Donald Schon (1987) writes about “normative curriculum,” a way of describing how curriculum is organized in most professional schools, including ours. The concept of a [...]