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Top Stories 27th
Annual Convention (7/25/08)
Convention
Lecture Legislation Journal
of the American Naturopathic Medical Association (JANMA) Facts |
Naturopathy In Canada
We've heard a lot of talk lately about regulation and high standards in Canada. In the coming weeks we will present factual data that has been gathered in recent years from Canadian government agencies. This information will cover everything from practice rights, scope of practice and acceptability by the country of Canada. As a starter ANMA believes Naturopathy does not enjoy much of a reputation throughout Canada. On April 29, 1991, Dr. David A. Young, Administrator of Academic Degrees and Program Review of the Office of Educational Policy and Planning, Salem, Oregon dated and signed a letter to H. Reed Saunders, Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, D.C. In this letter he stated, " One reasonable test of CNME's current performance level would be the basis for its acceptance of an application, with money, from the Ontario College of Naturopathic Medicine. As your staff knows, or should know, OCNM has absolutely no degree authority of any kind, and its graduates may not become legally licensed medical practitioners. Yet the school refers to its diploma and its graduates as "Doctor of Naturopathy", a practice the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities described to me as "pretty slippery" and without legal justification. . . ." He goes on to state "In any event, OCNM graduates would not be "doctors" in Oregon, and to be licensed here, one must have a doctor's degree. "Doctor" in this context is a degree, not an occupation. A degree is not a diploma or a certificate. It is a specific academic credential legally authorized by government in the place of origin. The Ministry tells me that private or "independent" colleges may in some cases be authorized to give degrees in Canada. OCNM is simply not one of them." Shortly after the David Young letter, the Ontario College of Naturopathic Medicine was changed to the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. The name changed but the FACTS remain the same. In 1995 a letter from the office of the Ontario Ministry of Education to Dr. Stephen Nugent stated "Degree granting authority in Ontario is regulated under the provincial Degree Granting Act. CCNM is a private institution which does not have degree-granting status, although it grants certificates and diplomas." In Short CCNN is not regulated by anyone.
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