Textbook of Naturopathic Family Medicine
- Author: El-Hashemy Shehab, Skowron Jared, Sorenson Linda
- Published: August, 2011
- Publisher: CCNM Press
- Number of pages: 384
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Product Description:
Based on AMA, CMA, and NABNE guidelines, this text offers an integrated program for mastering essential primary care clinical knowledge and reasoning skills in a family medicine practice. Primary care standards for naturopathic physicians govern patient rapport, SOAP charting, symptom and sign recognition, laboratory tests, case management and follow-up. These best practices are evidence-based, up to date, and integrate conventional medicine current practice guidelines. Ideal not only for students of naturopathic medicine, but also for practicing naturopathic doctors in need of a primary care clinical handbook. Features applied clinical guidelines in cardiology, ear, nose & throat, diabetes, gastroenterology, geriatrics,hematology, immunology and genetics, infectious diseases, nephrology, neurology, obstetrics, orthopedics, pediatrics, psychiatry, pulmonology, rheumatology, and urology modules. Provides core instruction in the critical skills comprising the repertoire of the primary care family physician as outlined by the Board of Directors of Drugless Therapy-Naturopathy (BDDT-N) and examined by the Naturopathic Licensing Examinations (NPLEX-II).
About the Author: Dr Shehab El-Hashemy, MBChB, ND, received his medical degree from Cairo University Faculty of Medicine and his naturopathic degree from The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM). An Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in charge of curriculum planning at CCNM, he is also an attending naturopathic physician at Anishnawbe Health Toronto, a publicly funded community health center, and runs a private practice in Oshawa, Ontario.
Dr Jared Skowron is a professor of naturopathic medicine at the University of Bridgeport and author of Fundamentals of Naturopathic Pediatrics.
Dr Lorinda Sorensen is a professor of naturopathic geriatrics at the National University of Health Sciences in Chicago
