{"id":7116,"date":"2017-03-17T05:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T05:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kushnerwellness.com\/?page_id=7116"},"modified":"2017-10-07T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T20:32:08","slug":"naturopathic-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oahunaturopathicdoctor.com\/index.php\/naturopathic-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Naturopathic Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;top-to-bottom&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"p1\">Naturopathic Education<\/h1>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\">Naturopathic medical colleges are four-year, post-graduate level medical schools with admissions requirements comparable to those of conventional medical schools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li5\">Naturopathic Physicians are trained in the same medical sciences that conventional physicians are trained in; including: anatomy, cardiology, biochemistry, neurology, physiology, pediatrics, pathology, dermatology, microbiology, obstetrics, immunology, gynecology, radiology, pharmacology, minor surgery, lab, physical diagnosis, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li5\">Throughout the naturopathic program, there is didactic and clinical training in naturopathic therapeutics; including: therapeutic nutrition, botanical medicine, homeopathy, bio-identical hormone therapy, pharmacology and minor surgery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li5\">Naturopathic philosophy is woven into both the didactic and clinical portions of the program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\">As part of their clinical training, naturopathic physicians work in various medical clinics seeing patients while supervised by licensed physicians.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>In addition, they are required to perform minor surgery, physical examinations, women\u2019s wellness exams, IV therapy, IM therapy, and many other clinical hands on applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\">The passage of rigorous professional board exams is required to become licensed as a naturopathic physician.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\">Both the Department of Education and the Carnegie Institute classify the ND degree as a first-professional degree under Doctorate-Professional (clinical), on par with MD and DO degrees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li3\">There are currently 6 accredited naturopathic medical schools in the US.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>These schools are Bastyr University- Washington, Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, National College of Naturopathic Medicine, University of Bridgeport, National University of Health Sciences, and Bastyr University- San Diego<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;top-to-bottom&#8221;] Naturopathic Education Naturopathic medical colleges are four-year, post-graduate level medical schools with admissions requirements comparable to those of conventional medical schools. Naturopathic Physicians are trained in the same medical sciences that conventional physicians are trained in; including: anatomy, cardiology, biochemistry, neurology, physiology, pediatrics, pathology, dermatology, microbiology, obstetrics, immunology, gynecology, radiology, pharmacology, minor surgery, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7116","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oahunaturopathicdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oahunaturopathicdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oahunaturopathicdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oahunaturopathicdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oahunaturopathicdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oahunaturopathicdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22717,"href":"https:\/\/oahunaturopathicdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7116\/revisions\/22717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oahunaturopathicdoctor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}