http://naturopathic.org/ ...but know that, as with most industry trade groups, there's dissent about pretty much every part of it. I can also tell you that my wife's training regimen, as do all licensed naturopathic doctors' training regimens, included organic chemistry, gross anatomy, pharmacy, pathology, immunology, genetics, etc. As far as prescribing, my wife's ability to prescribe in California is heavily curtailed compared to Washington, where she took her boards. In Washington, the argument was made that if a naturopathic doctor intended to take a patient off prescription medication, they needed to prove their proficiency with pharmaceutical treatment well enough to qualify to put a patient on prescription medication. In Washington, if you can buy it at a pharmacy she can prescribe it. In California, it's pretty much vitamins and herbs.
I suppose there are many paths to becoming an effective healer/consultant/doctor whatever you'd like to call it. For my healthcare, I would prefer council with an MD that has had some serious training in naturopathy and would take the most natural, non-invasive and proactive path to health possible. Thanks for the link, I will begin my studies tonight. Be well.
The business partner she just left, however, didn't believe in germ theory. Granted, she was a midwife and acupuncturist, not a naturopathic doctor. But it takes all kinds. My personal philosophy is that the US does things exactly wrong. The corner doctor should be the guy who tells you what you can do to fix your problems cheaply. He ought to know your health history pretty well. You ought to be on a first-name basis with him, and he ought to be well-paid by the government to keep all small health maladies small and to refer more vexing maladies to specialists. If my wife could have gotten an MD in "old country doctor" she would have. I dated a psychoanalyst's daughter for 4 years. He worked in public health. And every day of a 2-week rotation, he'd go to a new clinic, spend 7 minutes meeting with patients, and then 4 minutes consulting with the nurses there to find out what medication the nurses thought he should put those patients on. That's a clinic a day, 40 patients a day, every day for two weeks. Rinse, repeat. Shit ain't right.