*Following conventional premedical education, a Naturopathic doctor (N.D.) is trained as a holistic primary care physician in a four-year medical school. A Naturopathic physician learns the same science, diagnostic, and clinical skills as a conventional doctor (M.D.), but with the emphasis on health restoration and disease prevention, rather than on symptom management through drug treatments and removal of troublesome body parts. Students are required to take four years of clinical nutrition (compared with a few weeks for conventional doctors), and receive training in counseling skills so that they can guide patients in making lifestyle changes, and in natural therapies that enhance and utilize innate healing forces for the treatment of disease. ...
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