UBCNM Program Closure: A Canary in a Coal Mine?
Open Letter to the Profession David M. Brady, ND, DC, CCN, DACBN, IFMCP, FACN By now many of you are undoubtedly aware of the decision by the University of Bridgeport (UB) to cease further [...]
WNF Update: Naturopathic Medicine in the Western Pacific Region
Jon Wardle, ND, PhD, MPH, LLM Naturopathic News While the World Health Organization (WHO) maintains a truly global focus, much of its practical work is conducted in its regional offices. One of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Naturopathic Education Syzygy: It’s Upon Us
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes a Great Teacher: What a literature professor taught me about the dysfunction of modern biomedicine
David J. Schleich, PhD Forty-two winters ago I was sitting in Dr Christopher Drummond’s Saturday morning Renaissance Literature seminar at the University of Alberta. The smokers in the class had [...]
Got Jobs: Giving Our ND Graduates a Leg Up
David J. Schleich, PhD My part in the discussion was to describe the growing presence of the natural medicine community in that Affordable Care Act (ACA) landscape. I was introduced as being part [...]
Oh, the Possibilities! Trustees, Clinicians, and Teachers on the Same Page
David J. Schleich, PhD Assembling the fundamentals was blisteringly hard work in those days – an era of huddling enclaves, fines, imprisonment, and detraction. Was getting SCNM on the move in [...]
NCAT, or not to NCAT: Strategy or Bragging Rights?
David J. Schleich, PhD The naturopathic medical education network in North America does not include a standardized test among the requirements for admission to its 8 programs. Naturopathic [...]
