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CLINICAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM – 1200 HOURS

Clinical Internship Program:

Courses 800 through 875 (24 modules of 50 hours each – 1200 hours)

The Clinical Internship Program will consist of 1200 hours with clinical proficiency displayed to the satisfaction of the Clinical Director and his/her staff in each of the listed areas of study.
Each Module will consist of two (2) twenty-five (25) hour blocks.

 

The program will follow the outline of study listed below:

1. Class members experience clinical rounds on specific topic or observe a patient care opportunity. (e. g., Naturopathic Medicine, taught by a licensed ND or NMD, or Dermatology taught by a Board Certified dermatologist.) This would include about two (2) hours of clinical rounds involving direct patient contact. All patients will sign release papers and the College will provide those documents as well as the documentation for the on-site teaching facility.
   
2. Students will answer a set of questions provided by the presenter. These will include the specifics of each clinical entity covered, including definition, epidemiology and demographics, physical findings and clinical presentation, etiology and pathogenesis, any association(s) with other disorders, diagnosis and treatment, including any special clinical necessities.
   
   The answers from other students will be provided through the College Learning Platform (CLP) system at the submission of the student’s answers to those questions into the system. This will entail eight (8) hours of further study, resulting in a total of ten (10) hours for this portion of the process.
   
3. After that process is completed and reviewed by the clinical faculty member assigned for that module, the student will again be involved in a videoconference entailing two (2) hours of clinical rounds each of natural therapies, diagnostics and clinical training in the fields of homeopathy, natural substances, and physical medicine procedures. This will encompass six (6) hours of training.
   
4. The next step in the process entails another set of questions provided by the presenter which will be answered by the student taking another eight (8) hours of training. As in the second step of the process, the assigned clinician will review these answers and the answers of other students will be provided upon submission to the CLP system.
   
5. The final step of each clinical module will be to come together for a clinical session to review and discuss the module components and to answer any questions that may have been left unanswered in the process. Practical and written examinations will be administered to assure the competence of students in each of the training modules.

Emphasis will be placed on both Ambulatory Care and Continuity of Care with an expressed emphasis on integration of therapies. In dealing with the advanced naturopathic student, those with M.D., D.O., or D.C. degrees, this continuity of care requirement will have been met to a large degree by the hours of patient contact served under the professional license they presently hold.
The importance of this is not to be overlooked nor is it to be under-valued by blindly accepting the patient care being presented as having the quality and overall sufficiency to meet this requirement. These students will be tested for proficiency by the clinical instructional staff and passage of this competency testing will be necessary to achieve advanced standing.