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What is a holistic doctor? Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Sign Up. What are your concerns? Verywell Health uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read our editorial process to learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy. Related Articles. Unlike MD students who see hospital-based patients during their rotations, ND students see patients in primarily out-patient clinical settings at naturopathic clinics, and they also have the opportunity to complete rotations with medical specialties in cardiology, pediatrics, pulmonology, internal medicine, obstetrics and many others.
Naturopathic Doctors are required to graduate from an accredited 4-year Naturopathic Medical School. Similar to MDs, this test is a rigorous several days long examination process.
After licensure, MDs must complete a residency in their chosen specialty. NDs do not have a residency requirement, however opportunities for ND residencies continue to become available. Barker completed a rare 2-year family practice residency in Portland, Oregon. NDs and MDs must continue their medical education beyond graduation in order to maintain licensure.
CME requirements vary from state to state. NDs are required to complete yearly continuing medical education courses covering medicine, pharmacology and ethics. NDs are licensed doctors in the State of Colorado, and in many other states.
The scope of practice differs from state to state. Barker maintains a naturopathic medical license in Colorado and Oregon while Dr. German maintains a naturopathic medical license in Colorado and California. Join us to see the latest at Google and YouTube.
Also during these last two years of training, NDs continue didactic studies on current standard of care, as well as on integrative, traditional, alternative and complimentary treatment modalities. Thus, when an MD may be going through 12 weeks of surgery rotations, an ND may be learning orthopedic manipulations, pharmacology for diabetic management, minor surgery, herbal medicines and advanced nutrition principles and bringing these experiences to their clinic shift patients later that day.
It is in this extensive training that includes mainstream standard of care as well as natural, progressive, nutritive and traditional modalities where the key differences are noted between how these doctorate-level programs are delivered. Additionally, NDs are trained to apply these skills using the Philosophies of Naturopathic medicine , where the entirety of the patient is considered and where the least invasive, most natural and most efficacious treatments are selected, with the active input of the patient.
Who accredits these schools? There are seven schools that have accredited Naturopathic medical programs. Their training does not approach that of any of the above discussed professions and should not be counted on to safely diagnose or treat a patient.
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