What is the difference between a Naturopathic doctor and a Homeopath?
Naturopathic doctors are licensed primary care physicians that are trained to treat patients using clinical nutrition, physical medicine, acupuncture, botanical medicine, lifestyle counselling and homeopathy. Homeopaths, on the other hand, are trained to practice in one discipline – homeopathy. In addition, homeopathy is not a regulated or licensed health profession in Ontario. Naturopathic medicine is regulated and licensed in Ontario.
Naturopathic doctors a minimum of seven years of post-graduate studies. They have over four thousand hours in classroom and clinical training. To become licensed in Saskatchewan they must pass rigorous North American licensing exams. Naturopathic doctors use not only homeopathy in their practice, but use many additional treatments to help their patients. Homeopaths are unlicensed and while some can have many years of training, others can have only a weekend course. Homeopaths are practitioners that use only homeopathy to treat clients. They are an unregulated profession and therefore there is a wide variance in education between practitioners. Some may only have a weekend course, while others may have several years of education.
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