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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
4238.0: Tuesday, November 12, 2002: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
Panel Discussion | |||
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| While most members of the public health community are aware of the educational and licensure requirements for medical doctors (MD’s) and osteopathic doctors (DO’s), many are unaware of these requirements for naturopathic physicians (ND’s). The purpose of naturopathic licensure is to help protect the public; all 11 states and two territories that currently license the practice of naturopathic medicine require that ND’s meet educational requirements similar to those required of MD’s and DO’s for licensure. In many regions of the U.S., inadequately trained "naturopathic practitioners" have often misled the public by implying their self-certifications, mail-order or "diploma mill" credentials are equivalent to licensure. | |||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: 1) recognize the roles that may be played by ND's in public health, as well as in clinical practice, and to inform conventional health professionals, regulators and the public about what ND's are and what they do, and to foster effective inter-professional communications; 2) identify qualified physician-level providers who have been trained in a wide variety of complementary and alternative medicines; 3) differentiate an ND graduate of the governmentally recognized four-year naturopathic medical colleges, as a scientifically oriented practitioner with at least four years of clinical and preclinical academic training, who in this respect is substantially different from folk-trained practitioners of alternative (or traditional) therapies, such as herbalists, medicine men or curanderas, whose practices come from traditional health beliefs of specific world cultures or American subcultures; 4) become aware of the regulatory options states and territories use to ensure the quality of health care providers. | |||
| Andrea Sullivan, Ph D, ND Ron Hobbs, ND Irene Catania, ND | |||
| Duchy Trachtenberg, MSW Alan I. Trachtenberg, MD, MPH | |||
| Alan I. Trachtenberg, MD, MPH | |||
| Organized by: | Alternative and Complementary Health Practices | ||
| Endorsed by: | Chiropractic Health Care; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | Chiropractic, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | ||