How is Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) regulated?
In most Provinces of Canada and States in the US CAM is self-regulated. This means that there is not much in the way of official licensing; that is CAM is not regulated by government agencies. There are exceptions and students are responsible to check into their local government regulations and procedures when starting or maintaining a practice in Natural Health Care. In America we suggest you bookmark the American Naturopathic Medical Association (ANMA) to keep up to date. In Canada we do not have a central body, however the American Naturopathic Medical Association does include Canadian information and the government websites offer local licensing information. In Canada we suggest you bookmark http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/legislation/index_e.html . Most regulating bodies are run by practitioners in the CAM field working as volunteers on a board for a not-for-profit company. Voluntary membership leads to registration by the organization. These boards are put in place to establish vo
