| The summer 2007 graduates at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine have made history. Joanna Hagan, Director of Career Services, says that the pre-graduation placement* rate for the graduating class is almost at 70% and still climbing. The graduates will be working in solo private practices, practices with an ND, practices with an MD/DO, and some with a DC. Additionally, some graduates have attained residencies within the US.
This class entered SCNM in the Fall of 2003 and has been making waves all the way through. Here are just a few of the positions SCNM graduates will hold upon passing boards.
Stephanie Bethune will be working with Dr. Michael Traub, former president of AANP and the 2006 AANP Physician of the Year, in Kona, Hawaii. This past spring, Stephanie went to Kona to do a four-week rotation with Dr. Traub and was offered a position. She will work with Dr. Traub at his private practice and will be on staff at the local hospital in Waimea, which has an integrative medicine program. Stephanie’s plan is to practice nature cure with an emphasis in homeopathy, nutrition, botanicals, and hydrotherapy.
Brandie Gowey will be spending some time in Nepal to work with orphanages under the pediatric direction of Dr. Matt Baral. She will then open her private practice in Flagstaff, Ariz.
Cheryl Keita will be opening a midwifery clinic in Tanzania, Africa in January 2008.
Heather Paulsen will be doing a two-year residency at The Goshen Center for Cancer Care, Godhen General Hospital and at the Women's Retreat Center. She will be working with Marcia Prengruber, ND, Director of Integrative Medicine, and president of the CNME as well as various staff MD's.
As a resident, Heather will be spending the majority of her time at the Center for Cancer Care working closely with the medical, surgical, and radiation oncologists in the development and implementation of cancer treatment plans that use an integrative approach. As a Naturopathic resident, she will be individualizing treatments for patients that can include nutrition, botanical medicine, homeopathy, and hydrotherapy.
Jerry Taylor, Jr. has landed a position working for the Chippewa Tribe in Montana.
Leila Fosdick, Natalie Krok, and Nicole Antonucci Taylor have been selected for a residency at Southwest Naturopathic Medical Center where there will be five residents in all.
*Pre-graduation placement refers to opening up practices, specifically measured by identified office locations to open a practice and places or specified persons with whom a person will be working for or with prior to graduation, with the intention of opening / practicing shortly after the results of boards scores. The definition of Placement also includes going on to another graduate or technical school for additional training such as acupuncture school. It also means being employed within the field or profession such as for a residency associated with a naturopathic college, research, teaching, working for a ND, MD, DO, DC, a laboratory or a Nutraceutical company. Many grads create an income stream by combining multiple activities such as private practice and teaching or working for Nutraceutical Company and having a private practice. It does not mean working outside of the field in a salaried or other income earning position.
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