This certificate is received by those who do distant learning online for about 3 months and then they call themselves naturopaths. This angers me as they may seriously harm people - not to mention they seriously discredit those naturopathic physicians who graduate from accredited 4 year ND schools - of which there are only about 4 in the USA. There are also a couple in Canada - which I am not fully aware of their standards - but I know the former president of one of the schools and he is highly credible so likely those schools are good.

If visiting a naturopath and you are not aware of these potentially dangerous ones, ask where they graduated from. If they graduated from the colleges listed below - you are fine:

• Bastyr University
  
• National College of Naturopathic Medicine
• Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine
• and maybe Connecticut College of Naturopathic Medicine
  

If they graduated anywhere else and claim to be a...