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Indian Health Service Includes Licensed NDs, LAcs, DCs in Loan Repayment Program |
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Written by John Weeks
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Indian Health Service Includes Licensed NDs, LAcs, DCs in Loan Repayment Program
A bit of integrative medicine history was made on January X, 2012 when the U.S. Indian Health Service (IHS) quietly announced
that licensed naturopathic doctors, acupuncturists and chiropractors
would be included in 2012 in the IHS' student loan repayment programs.
The announcement magnetized students and recent graduates. Was this
finally an end to what they view as discriminatory exclusion and a
long-overdue chance to relieve their debt burden?
The inclusion was immediately celebrated by
the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP). The AANP
had targeted such inclusion as its top federal priority for the last
decade. The American Chiropractic Association followed suit with a release to their own their members. Click here for the rest of the article at the Huffington Post.
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