Re: SCNM training vs. allopathic (UA med)

If you have the opportunity to attend medical school (and want to be a physician), by all means--do it. There's nothing in that naturopaths do that is outside the scope of practice for an MD. And you don't need an indoctrination into naturopathic theory to practice it.

It's true that when I was a student at Bastyr, SCNM was known as the most science based school. Not having attended SCNM, I can't comment on the quality of SCNMs clinical training.

As another poster points out, a medical school graduate can get an ND degree in 2 (more like 2 1/2) years. Whereas if you attend a naturopathic school and then decide that you want to study medicine, you'd have to start from scratch.

These are my thoughts.

JackL

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