Australians: Naturopathy regulations?

[Guest guest]

Hello all, after battling greatly with my own health and reading heaps

about naturopathy i've decided that it may indeed be the career for me

(of course i will check that out by taking a short course first before

jumping into the full one), anyways, i was wondering if anyone had any

information on the legalities regarding practising naturopathy in

victoria. i don't want to get sued by anyone in this bizarre age where

teachers get sued cos their students are wasting too much time being

stupid and therefore don't learn anything....

[Guest guest]

Although this applies to the US not Austrailia...

http://www.naturalhealth.org/legislative/cnh_map.asp

 

 

It may be worth contacting the Coalition to see if they have contacts

in other countries - they may be able to point you in the right

direction.

 

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As for courses in the US... that depends on what you are looking

for. I did a little research sometime back when I was considering

moving back to the US and thought about training as an N.D.... these

are only little nuggets I have gathered - not the final word!

 

It seems that it comes down to

(1) is the institution giving the course officially accredited by a

recognised body (i.e. one that can legally authorise a

college/university to issue a degree)

(http://www.aanmc.org/education/accreditation.php)

 

and

(2) how you want to practice and where - in many states you run

across the issue of " practicing medicine without a license " - in

which case you might want to consider training with one of the only 4

or 5 colleges in the US which offer accredited N.D. (Naturopathic

Doctor) graduate degree programmes whereafter you may take a

licensing exam and then practice medicine as an N.D

(http://www.cnme.org/faq.html).

 

Or do you want something which is considered less stringent (and less

expensive), perhaps done through a correspondence course (such as

http://www.ccnh.edu/default.aspx), although not necessarily

recognised as accredited - and then figure out where you can

practice (http://www.anma.com/stlaws2.html) - there is a case here in

the UK of a woman who did a PhD with Clayton College of Natural

Health and called herself 'Dr.', but was later required to drop that

title because CCNH was not recognised as accredited in the US and

therefore was not recognised here... although she continues to

practice as a naturopath - she just can't call herself Dr.

 

And unfortunately - these two camps (licensed vs. un-licensed) do not

seem to agree with each other: http://www.anma.com/updatecnme.html

 

Hope that sheds a little light at least...

 

Sharon