Naturopathy Doctor Graduate Application

 

Recommendation letter from the osteopathic doctor

Dear Admissions Commission,

I am greatly pleased to recommend Aleks for admission at your institution for a naturopathic program. He is one of the most enthusiastic young people that I have ever come across. I have known him Aleks for many years ever since he was a child, when he visited my osteopathic clinic after he hurt his ankle while playing basketball. He struck me as an individual that is really keen on learning things because he kept asking questions about different apparatus that I was using while attending to him and their use. He later volunteered to help at the clinic for several months before he joined college, which is just to show his determination in life.

Not many young people think of doing volunteer services at that age, all they care about is spending time at home and engaging in other unethical activities. Aleks is a very distinctive individual; he is driven by his passion to succeed and also to help other people at all times. At the time that he volunteered at the clinic, he was very hard working, and I did not have to push or constantly remind him what his duties were. He was always on time and he was among the last people to leave the clinic in the evening because he insisted on leaving everything organized within the clinic.

Aleks has strong communication skills, and he is able to connect with every person that he comes across effectively. At the clinic, he had a special connection with patients and there was no one time that I got a complaint from the patients about his behaviour. Everyone praised him, including his co-workers because he was always ready to help out and more importantly to learn about everything. I remember when he left for university, all the patients that knew him kept asking for him which is just to show how he was able to connect with the patients on another special level.

Aleks generally has strong personal strengths; he is active and has an outgoing presence that makes him very likable by people that he meets. Aleks is that person that you can trust with any project because you know that he will commit his time and determination to it and ensure that it is completed effectively. His cheery and sincerity nature to criticism makes him an individual that is continuously learning and developing as a learner, which is an inspiring asset that will help him function well as a naturopathic doctor.

Aleks has my utmost reference for admittance at your naturopathic program. He has confirmed fineness in all that he focuses his mind on whether it is joining forces with other people, offering help to the ones that need it or just dedicating his time to learn new things. Aleks boundless inquisitiveness, joint with his inclination to take risks, indications me to trust that there will be no boundary to his development and accomplishment as a naturopathic doctor.

Sincerely,

Name,

Osteopathic doctor,

Almax Health.

 

 

 

Recommendation letter from the genetics professor

To the Admittances Commission,

I had the chance of teaching Aleks at the university in genetics class. From the first day that I encountered him, I was impressed with his desire to learn new concepts and always questioning concepts that he did not understand during class time. Not many students, especially in their first year have the courage to ask a professor questions because they do not want other students to perceive them as the know it all but this did not bother Aleks. I can confidently say that he is one of the most brilliant scholars that I have encountered in my entire teaching career. Aleks has a passion for health science, and he is always concerned about helping other people, which makes him an ideal candidate for naturopathic program.

I am not surprised that Aleks chose to steer his career in naturopathic medicine, he is an insightful, intelligent individual that has a high capacity for science. He is always motivated to apprehend how concepts in the human body work and how various health conditions come about. He always worked hard in his studies, always asking questions in class, never missing any classes which made him get exceptional grades. I remember he scored an A in his final tests in genetics course, which was exceptional since only very few students had ever scored that highly on that test. He has great socialization as well as leadership skills which saw him start up a study group. He was always an enthusiastic leader that was always ready to share his knowledge with the other students who looked up to him for guidance in most of the projects that they conducted in the study group. 

Aleks has great problem solving as well as critical thinking skills and this was exemplified in a genetic mite experiment that he conducted for his final test which was very successful. Aleks is in general a very outgoing individual that is always ready to learn and not scared to pursue his goals, a character that will make him a very effective naturopathic doctor.

Aleks is an individual that is greatly committed to learning and understanding matters of human health. He believes passionately in equal effective healthcare for all irrespective of their conditions or even social backgrounds. He is a talented, intelligent individual with allure, self-assurance and respect for other people which are some of the traits that make him a very effective candidate for a naturopathic doctor. Aleks has my highest recommendation.

Sincerely,

Name,

Genetics professor,

Institution

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recommendation from my all-time mentor

Dear admission Committee

Aleks is an individual that is hard working and committed to learning new concepts. In the years that I have mentored him, he has shown great passion for learning and exploring new ideas to help solve medical problems. He is always open to getting involved in any learning activity, no matter how complex because he believes that everything is possible as long as one puts their determination in it.

There no one task that Aleks considers too difficult, I remember there was this time that he was asked to do a genetics project, and he had to complete it within a week. This was a new concept for him, but he was ready for the challenge, he dedicated all his free time even at night to complete this project within five days and he never at any one point miss any of the other classes. Though he was stressed by the project, he did not let it affect any of the other activities that he was supposed to be involved. And this shows his hardworking nature as well as his ability to work under pressure and still produce effective results.

Aleks is an individual that have always had that extensive compassion for helping other people in need. Anytime that he comes across an individual that is suffering because of a health condition, he leaves everything else to just help this individual the best way he can. Seeing people suffering greatly affects him, and I am not surprised by his decision to pursue naturopathic medicine. This is a career path that greatly suits his character, most especially his passion in health science as well as helping people in need.

I highly recommend Aleks for this naturopathic program in your institution because I know that this is where his passion lies. I have over the years watched him grow and improve to become a better individual; I have no doubt that engaging in this career path is just a chance to continue growing for him. I know that he will work hard to become one of the best naturopathic doctors, there is and his experiences both in his career and his general life experiences have nurtured him effectively for this career.

Sincerely,

Name

Mentor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My interest in becoming Naturopathic Doctor (ND)

The interest to become a Naturopathic Doctor was motivated by my experiences as well as the experiences of my family and friends. It is very fascinating to observe the changing functions of NDs in the modern medical system where the society is open to experiencing another system in provision of health care. Sickness was a constant occurrence for my brother when we were young, he suffered from Perthes disease and his anti-thrombin three deficiencies led him to have thrombosis disorder. He often had to for therapy for back realignment, he was always on blood thinners and it really saddened me to see him suffer so much. This experience was the turning point of my life and it is what instigated my desires to study science related concepts in college.  Studying genetics for me meant that I would understand the roots of some of the complicated health issues that are experienced by people like the case of my brother and hence find correct management methods. This in the overall means changing the lives of other people for the better by managing their health issues. It means giving people another chance and hope in life when they are going through tough times in regards to their well-being.

It is this mentality that motivated me to work extra hard in school to attain the required grades to get me to a good school that offered genetics programs for my undergraduate program which I excelled. My interest in helping improve the lives of others is what has instigated further interests in the field of medicine and that is why I am interested in Neuropathic program. As genetics professional, I have many doctor friends, it always saddens when they explain to me how they have had consultations with a patient more than three times because of certain chronic conditions that they can only manage by giving prescription. I always understand them when they complain that they feel like they are not doing enough because all that they can do for the patients is give prescriptions. There are other many occasions that I have met with people that prefer not to visit the hospital because they assume that all that the doctors will do is offer them some prescriptions without really exploring their medical history and even explaining their conditions. This is one of the many factors that have instigated my interests to explore alternative treatment methods that can be applied to help treat patients. 

I believe that healthcare should be all inclusive of medication and general management which includes looking for ways to manage some of the conditions and this includes considering medical history of an individual and the best lifestyle that can help manage the health conditions. Neuropathic medicine is all about exploring other alternative treatments to see how best they work for some of the chronic conditions that people suffer from in the society. I feel that the ND program better achieves my goal of patient care and improved health because NDs have different approaches to their practice which is tailored to the patient. Their first concern is the patient and they do all they can to understand what the patient is going through and how they came to get the conditions they suffer from. This method makes NDs better equipped at dealing with specific issues because they specialize in the methods they are most experienced with. They are not restricted to just one method, such as prescribing medication, but are able to utilize their other skills and qualifications like going into detail about the illness and even conducting research to understand the ways that the condition can be managed.  Don′t compare really. From my scientific background, I find that there is an over-reliance on established norms or prescriptions, which lacks a well-rounded treatment of patients.

As an ND, I find that they incorporate multiple avenues of research, history, medicine, and psychology to treat patients which makes the therapeutic method very effective because all aspects of human wellbeing are put into considerations during the whole treatment process. They consider all possibilities and listen to their patients. The bond between ND and patient is stronger and more interactive, rather than medical doctors (MD) viewing patients in terms of symptoms and using the “tried and true” methods. MD approaches have a narrow focus, which while helpful in being precise, lacks extensive research on all possibilities. Something which may be dismissed outright because it lacks the current norm of acceptance within the MD community could actually help the patient. I have always been interested in living a healthy lifestyle and I am always advising people to eat right because I believe that good health is intricately connected to healthy diets. This special interest in healthy living and my extensive background in genetic science compliments by desires to become an ND. Becoming a Neuropathic Doctor (ND) will greatly help me achieve my goals of patient care and improved health for everyone in the society.

Naturopathy role in health care

Naturopathy is a unique assembly of primary health care (PHC) medicine that merges Western curative customs with modern therapeutic philosophy. It is steered by an exceptional set of ideologies that identify the body's distinctive healing capability. It also highlights disease hindrance, and emboldens individual accountability to acquire ideal health. The naturopathic doctor (ND) endeavours to methodically recognize each patient's disorder, and looks at the warning signs as the body's way of communicating a causal disparity. Treatments deal with the patient's primary disorder, rather than individual that is showing the signs. Modalities exploited by NDs comprise nutrition, interactive alteration, hydrotherapy, homeopathy, vegetation based treatment, physical prescription, medications, and minor operation.

In trying to re-establish health, the ND tracks a precise, yet compliant, therapeutic direction that initiates with nominal mediations and ensues to developed level mediations as is essential. The direction initiates with re-instituting the situations of wellbeing, such as developing a more beneficial dietetic and way of life system. Afterward, the body's normal curative mechanisms may be enthused through systems such as hydrotherapy, which can upsurge the flow of blood and lymph. The third phase is to provision destabilized or impaired structures with homeopathy, botanical medications, or precise physical exercises, such as yoga. The fourth phase is to correct mechanical honesty, which is classically conducted with physical treatment procedures comprising massage and naturopathic influence. The fifth phase is to deal with pathology using precise natural ingredients, such as nutritional enhancements. The sixth phase is to deal with pathology using pharmacological or synthetic elements. Surgical improvement is set aside for the concluding healing step

 Naturopathy can be mapped out back to the European environment therapy that was practiced in the 19^th century, which was a scheme for managing illness with natural elements like water, clean air, nutrition, and use of herbs. In the early 20^th century, naturopathy began to establish in the United States. and Canada, merging environment based cure, homeopathy, spinal influence and other rehabilitations. In naturopathic theory, disease is observed as a procedure of disruption to health and ensuing reclamation in the perspective of natural structures. There are many elements that can affect ideal health, such as poor diet, chronic pressure, or exposure to pollutants. The objective of the ND is to reinstate wellbeing by recognizing and diminishing these instabilities. In order to do this, the ND first distinguishes the dynamics that define health. An element becomes a disruption when it is gets affected in some manner.

The ND occupation can basically be described as a structure of primary health care (PMC): an art, science, and a conduct of analysis, management, and deterrence of disease. Similar to other structures of treatment for instance Ayurvedic and a Chinese therapy, naturopathy is not branded by precise features of therapies for instance homoeopathy or acupuncture, but by the viewpoints and standards by which these features are exploited. The dominant ideologies that motivate and govern the conducts of naturopathy comprise: backing up the therapeutic influence of nature; defining and managing the fundamental source of healthiness inequities, as opposed to just concentrating on indicative cure; managing the wellbeing of the entire body system, rather than just distinct sickness procedures; deterrence of illness and distinguishing the physician as an instructor (Sarris & Wardle, 2010).

Furthermore essential to naturopathic viewpoint is the notion of a healing direction of intercessions, which does not consider psychological problems and places tension on limitation and less dynamic intrusions before engaging in more domineering curative approaches (Zeff et al., 2008). This healing direction involves: (1) establishing the circumstances of health by recognizing as well as eliminating facets and founding a well-being management, (2) encouraging self-curing strategies, (3) supporting damaged or impaired tissues, (4) dealing with the pathology by use of precise organic constituents, modalities or intercessions, (5) dealing with the pathology by utilization of specific artificial, or pharmacological intercessions, and (6) overwhelming or eradicating pathology through a medical operation. This code offers naturopaths a supple and comprehensive range of interventions, and permits them to operate and assimilate soundly with other therapeutic structures. Though not restricted to the usage of natural rehabilitations, North American naturopaths, for instance appreciate wide-ranging prescriptive specialist in numerous influences (Baer and Sporn, 2009). The main strategies that are employed by naturopathic prescription physicians incline within the “natural” treatment responsibility (Boon et al., 2004). This comprises nutritional and medical dietary interference, herbal treatment, homoeopathy, hydrotherapy, bodily treatment, way of life and interactive intercessions, traditional environmental therapy, and tools assimilated from other ethnicities for instance, acupuncture. The attention of naturopaths on the fundamental viewpoints and ideologies of their restraint has permitted the occupation to progress a comprehensive healing extensiveness, and this has led naturopaths to habitually distinguish themselves as equivalent to  general doctors of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) (Tolhurst et al., 2006).

Though the integration of naturopathic remedy into wide-ranging PHC may posture numerous defies, there may be some circumstances where naturopaths offer enhancements on some of predominant PHC amenities. The noteworthy difficulties with staffing and preservation of PHC workers in regions that are underserved such as countryside regions could make assimilating naturopaths or supplementary non-conservative workers into PHC a more pleasant choice predominantly where no other upkeep opportunities occur (Tolhurst et al., 2006). Substantial numbers of naturopaths are by now present in zones of health worker scarcity and signify a latent unexploited supply for PHC distribution. For instance, an review of CAM care givers in countryside of New South Wales, Australia, established that the amount of “PHC” CAM care givers including; naturopathy, Chinese remedy, chiropractic, homeopathy, as well as osteopathy was virtually as eminent as the quantity of conservative general physicians in the given regions (Wardle et al., 2011).Several instances are existent for the usage of naturopathic physicians in the regions that are underserved. For instance in Germany naturopaths are capable to conduct overtly funded PHC amenities in countryside regions if conformist PHC amenities are in-accessible (Bodeker and Burford, 2007). In the United States, qualified naturopaths working or enthusiastic to work in regions of necessity or in the societies that do not have enough doctors and they are entitled to government loan compassion packages for instance in Washington and Oregon or the state system for facility in the US Indian wellbeing provision (United States Department of Health and Human Services, 2012).

Conservative PHC workers regularly perceive themselves as unlike to other medical specialists (Adams, 2001). Outside the scientific management of people with various disorders, PHC workers may correspondingly perform as patient activists in the self-supervision and also the co-supervision of maintenance, standing in as the patient’s advocate and assisting to direct them over a progressively multifaceted and involved health structure (Stange, 2010). Such a function requires ability ranges that encompass outside the scientific dominion into the psychological standard. Naturopaths, just like most CIM psychoanalysts have a fundamental rounded and patient-configured viewpoint, might have by then established the abilities obligated to take on this facet of PHC. Furthermore, the scientific abilities essential to perform in a PHC volume are exceptional in treatment. The aims for visits to PHC physicians are exceptionally assorted, with only one half of explanations for appointments categorized in the first twenty diagnosis collections (Stange, 2010). This equates with the first six indicative collections founding 70 to about 90% of patient performances in fields such as cardiology or dermatology (Stange, 2010). This heterogeneity helps to show the prominence of a PHC expert creating a comprehensive, universal familiarity of treatment, fixed with coming up with a practical supply system when more profound knowledge is obligated. In most genuine thinking, I believe that only a generalist can be a real PHC doctor, as concentrating mechanically confines the possibility of practice from a fundamental co-supervision or counselling role to a finer series of exhibitions.

A generalist attitude to health care engaged in PHC comprises functioning on the portions while concentrating on the whole (Stange, 2010). At the same time as expert and intently attentive tactics are clinically valuable, the generalist tactic is most significant in intricate circumstances in PHC, such as periods of evolution and unpredictability, situations encompassing vagueness and inconsistency, circumstances where associations and individualization is important, structures with an elevated unit of interconnectedness or intricacy, sceneries in which both intensely and inaccurately associated dealings reveal with time, and circumstances where the entire body system is supplementary to the quantity of its various parts. This tactic has vibrant matches with the all-inclusive and patient grounded method linked with CIM conducts perceived in naturopathic remedy one that habitually entices PHC general practitioners to CIM (Adams, 2001).

Assimilating naturopaths into PHC provision might also be a suitable reaction to the varying requirements of health care operators, who are aggressively pursuing the amenities of CIM suppliers. Patients, even though often in an unauthorized or undocumented volume, and integration may permit healthier certification and liability of naturopathic PHC exercise. In Australia for instance, in spite of general health analysis for conservative amenities and little incorporation of naturopathy in the extensive health segment, 11% of women most especially those in the mid-age still prefer to refer to a naturopath whereby they pay direct cash (Adams, 2001). This usage often increases in multifaceted or enduring disorders, for instance in cancer this can escalate up to 16% (Adams, 2001).

Substantial utilization of naturopaths in severe disorders such as cancer is distinctively a powerful dispute for further integration of naturopaths into conformist health structures at least in regard to guaranteeing liability and minimum practice criterions. Even though most naturopathic patients seek out the amenities of CAM practitioners in an adjunctive aptitude with other health physicians, there is a noteworthy percentage that exploits them as their main care providers and they are the ones that they contact first. In Australia, for instance, it has been projected a third of Australian naturopathic patients utilize their naturopaths as their PHC care givers (Chow, 2000). Integrating naturopaths into health amenity provision may also contribution in increasing more receptive conformist therapeutic care, as researching and authenticating the causes behind naturopathic doctor use in PHC can recognize the gaps that naturopaths are satisfying, and advance receptive PHC amenities to address these requirements.

The community health move to concentrating on non-infectious ailments may expose prospects to employ naturopaths in PHC. Enduring ailments are now the prominent source of sickness weight and illness globally, yet the principal fundamental actual sources of death are all adjustable fitness conducts including; tobacco usage, inappropriate nourishment and lack of proper physical exercise (Nugent, 2008). The philosophies of naturopathy may support the determinations to deal with these tasks, and the prospective of the interconnecting models of naturopathic therapy and community wellbeing have been debated in the past (Adams, 2008; Wardle and Oberg, 2011). For instance, health campaign is a foundation of naturopathy, theoretically and in upkeep provision (Herman et al., 2006). Naturopaths assist distinct interactive alteration in people suffering both over the clinical provision of health advancement therapy and also by demonstrating fit conduct themselves (Frank et al., 2000). Researches of naturopathic use show that wellbeing upgrade therapy on nutrition, physical exercise and management of stress is merged into virtually every scientific encounter  which is about 80 to about 100% and is then secured over sequential patient appointments (Bradley and Oberg 2006;). These disparities with the inferior rates of health campaign movement that is witnessed in conformist upkeep, and it ranges between the percentages of 35 and 40 (Frank et al., 2000).

Furthermore, naturopaths are being progressively pursued by individuals with lingering or multifaceted health situations. An evaluation of the PHC conduct outlines of 170 naturopaths situated within Washington and Connecticut proposes that 75% of all appointments to naturopaths was because they had an enduring disorders (Boon et al., 2004). Naturopaths also basically classify their utmost assets in the sectors of lingering and multifaceted sickness: a qualitative examination steered in Australia similarly displays that naturopath’s assertion to offer additionally receptive PHC to individuals with prolonged illnesses than conventional suppliers, whereas conventional suppliers were alleged by these same naturopaths as superior at offering upkeep for desperate cases (Wardle et al., 2010).

The conducts of naturopathic therapy conveys with it extensive threats to make constitutional   directive of doctors both wanted and necessary (Frank et al., 2000). Though the remedies exploited by naturopathic physicians have some unswerving health threats, for instance, naturopathic therapies destructively interrelating with conventional therapy, conventional treatment is what posture the most threat to the consumer because all it is concerned about is offering prescriptions (Wardle & Oberge, 2011). These may comprise overlooked diagnoses or misdiagnoses, failure to direct patients to other medical therapies when clinically fitting, or the unsuitable control of PHC. Nevertheless, assessments of the naturopathic occupation have showed that these threats can be meaningfully reduced using policies that places appropriate obstacles to admission, for the individuals exercising it most prominently and this can be done through analysing least education values and use of personality assessments (Frank et al., 2000). The major risks to community wellbeing linked with an augmented function of naturopaths in PHC conveyance is the prospective clashes of concern to consequence in monetary manipulation of people, owing to the element that treatment and transaction of healing involvements are not classically detached in naturopathic exercise. A good illustration of these is the fact that 98% NDs in Australian have a store for spontaneous drugs in their consulting room, and 78% vend pre-packed products openly to their clients (Smith et al., 2005). This is frequently not merely a profitable resolution by doctors, but is correspondingly deliberated essential for the grounding of customized medications or when there are no third party sellers of naturopathic drugs. This was perhaps an answer resultant owing to the long-term segregation of the naturopathic occupation from conformist health structure. These menaces can also be amended not just over the growth of third party administration opportunities, but also over the increase of suitable supervisory guidelines (Smith et al., 2005).

Expected Future trend in Naturopathy

As I have come to realize, there is an increase in natural approach to healthcare in the modern day. The society is more concerned with health and this can be evidenced by the increased use of healthy foods in the grocery stores. Everyone today wants to have organic foods just so that they can live a healthy lifestyle. The sales of natural products have doubled in the last ten years, and this same concept is getting applied in the health care sector. People are now opting to use traditional therapeutic method, which puts naturopathic medicine on the front-line as the fastest growing natural health industry.

Naturopathic medicine has greatly increased and it capacity has actually tripled over the past ten years, and this is as a result of the increasing growth of patient interest in this type of care (Smith et al., 2005). As the patient population in this area grows, the profession continues to spark interest most especially of the people that are dissatisfied with the conventional medicine.  Career opportunities in this industry are on the rise and a naturopathic degree offers great flexibility in the types of jobs that one can choose from. This means that many people will be choosing to join the naturopathic sector as time goes by and hence augmented growth in this type of medicine. The vastly large pool of naturopathic physicians that are in practice today offers the recent and prospective graduates more opportunities to start off their careers by joining the existing practices.

Life experiences that have prepared me to become an ND

When I first joined the university, my main goal was to ensure that I achieved a high GPA and have great experiences that would always remind me of my undergraduate program. The four and half years that I spent at the university really helped me to gain the experiences that I needed.  The university was a different setting for me, given that I came from a small town with few people and the fact I previously went to school in the small local schools where I knew almost everyone. This was a new environment where I did not know any person or even any place within the school. I had to start by making new friends which was not easy because I am not very social and I enjoy keeping to myself.

The university is not a place that you can just keep to yourself though, at some point you will need people to do group discussions with and also share ideas on how to survive the four years with. I also had to deal with the issue of waking up early so that I could manage to attend the many classes that came with my genetics course; this was not something I was used to. Waking up early to go to class and sparing time for many group discussions was not always easy because I was not used to these routines. It however shaped the personality that I have today; it helped me learn the technique of time management that is applicable in all aspects of life and this is something that is very important for an ND. I learnt the concept of socialization through the group discussion which greatly improved my communication skills that I will apply as an ND when relating with the patients.

 The experiences that I had during my undergraduate program have shaped me to the individual that I am today, I now know what my limits are and how far I can push myself when I am fully motivated. At the university, I was involved in many activities which included for one research; which is an important element in neuropathic medicine. In order to effectively understand a medical condition, it is important to conduct a thorough research to understand the factors that lead to the condition and how they can be controlled. With the many researches that I conducted as an undergraduate student, I have enough knowledge to conduct any research that is needed in the neuropathic sector.

I have been involved in many volunteering activities in the health care which have greatly helped me to gain some experience in regard to how to deal with various issues that concern patients. I once volunteered in an osteopathic clinic commonly known as Almax Health where I began when I was still young before I even joined the university. I first visited the clinic after I injured my ankle after a basketball game. I was touched by the care offered to me by my osteopathic doctor  and it greatly motivated my desire for the medical profession. This prompted me to request to be allowed to volunteer in the clinic for several months before I joined the university which was allowed and I volunteered in the clinic several months. It is here that I got to learn about various apparatus in the hospital setting, and I also got the chance to meet people with injuries and learn about the best techniques to deal with them. From this volunteering session, I learnt the best strategies to communicate with clients in need in order to encourage them and make them feel as relaxed as is possible. This was also a setting that helped me learn techniques of management in a clinical setting and matters regarding appointment and confirmation booking, since my main role was ensuring that the clinic was running smoothly and that the needs of the patients were being catered for. I believe that these are skills that will come in handy in my ND career, given that I already have some experience in a similar setting.

In my genetics career I have had the chance of attending ND clinics where I have been able to observe how patient progress occurs and the manner in which doctor patient interactions look like in this sector. I have also had first-hand experience interacting with patients and generally observing the practices of the ND while they are dealing with patients under the supervision of DR. Ludmila. This has helped give me an overview of how this field operates and the best techniques to use to communicate with patients effectively. What I have learnt from these observations is that the most important element in Neuropathic medicine is the interaction between the patient and the ND because this is what allows for a relationship to develop between the two. Engaging the patients as the ND works effectively because it helps the patients to feel appreciated and they are free to share their views with the ND in regard to their medical conditions. This helps the ND to understand many concepts relating to their patient’s conditions and their overall psychological as well as physical wellbeing which helps them to make the right choices when it comes to management of that condition.

While working with Dr. Ludmila I also learnt the importance of respecting one’s work, understanding that as an ND it is important to observe all forms of moral ethics to ensure that the patients are comfortable with the treatment that is offered. I also acquired management skills, where I understood the need to demonstrate tolerance, compassion and empathy while dealing with patients in order to ensure that the therapeutic strategy was effective. I now understand that as an ND, it is important to always place the needs of the patients first before everything else. It is important to understand what the patient wants and to also understand their medical background which will help to understand the most effective strategy to employ to help manage their conditions.  As an ND, it is also equally important to have good problem solving skills which will ensure that one thinks effectively and avoids bringing stressive attitudes to the health care setting.

The experiences that I have had in my family, academic and career life will greatly facilitate my choice to become an ND. One of my greatest desires is to have a society where every individual receives affordable and effective health care which helps them lead a happy fulfilling life.  I have throughout my life learnt the need for effective patient care which begins with understanding the needs of the patients, the conditions they suffer from and their overall medical history. Becoming an ND will help me fulfil my dream of ensuring that patients receive the best healthcare which entails researching the reasons for the conditions and incorporating the best lifestyle techniques that can be used to manage these health conditions. The society’s medical needs have changed and it is important for the health sector to change and modify its operations in accordance to patient needs and one of the changes is by adopting neuropathic medicine. I want to be among the people that change the health sector by bringing better and more effective techniques through neuropathic medicine. It is my believe that joining your institution will give me the medical knowledge that I need to fulfil this objective and make the society a much healthier place for every individual.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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