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When you complete any holistic doctorate or practice minor, a graduate essay and intake form accessible from the CONNECT dropdown menu under CERTIFY is required, which allows us to measure your grasp on learning objectives, practice outcomes, and help you develop your written communication skills.
However, there's no dissertation requirement because, unlike law, conventional medicine, real estate, and even massage therapy, our teaching modalities fall within an educationally unregulated industry, which allows us to dictate our entry and graduate requirements and titles bestowed.
Doctorates traditionally take longer in mainstream academia, but "doctor" has long been a title in the natural health industry, and it doesn't take eight years to obtain, like would be the case at a conventional college.
For a brief period, we copied a conventional model and required graduate dissertations, but for various reasons, as described below, we no longer do so because our definition of a PhD, or 'doctor as teacher,' goes beyond the traditional doctorate-dissertation model valued by mainstream educators.
Most practicing and would-be holistic providers spend a lot of their free time researching and digging for hard-to-find information, which is why we practically consider them research scientists and why we certainly recognize the combined value of research, anecdotal theory, and improving one's written communication skills; therefore, if you'd like to write a dissertation or a shorter paper (or article), we would love to publish it on our blog under 'STUDENT PAPERS & DISSERTATIONS' in the 'CONNECT' drop-down menu.
You'll find dissertation guidelines below this content, but we no longer require them because many of our graduates have already written them at conventional colleges and are already physicians or PhD holders, or they're busy professionals and parents who simply don't have the time to dedicate to such a large project.
We have physicians, NPs, autonomous NPs, PAs, NDs / NMDs, RNs, LPNs, and numerous licensed medical and other professionals who have already completed this kind of work or don't wish to do so again but who still wish to study and apply the contents of our program for their own personal and professional enrichment.
In addition to career professionals, other students comprise stay-at-home parents juggling children and managing busy lives as homemakers, and some of our older student body members simply don't wish to spend all their free time writing.
A dissertation is very different from a graduate exit essay, which is evident when you compare our CERTIFY requirements to the dissertation requirements below.
We know that some holistic educators of this class and type charge $20,000 per program and force their graduates to arbitrarily write, for example, exactly 100-page+ dissertations, but we don't do either of those things and never will.
Furthermore, we never want to exclude or discourage anyone from studying natural, functional, holistic medicine just because writing a 20-30+ page paper doesn't resonate with them.
As the most provider-friendly educator on the market today, we offer self-directed learning programs for personal and professional enrichment minus any red tape, upsells, and opportunistic price gouging.
While the papers on our website are by no means exhaustive, this year, we hope to publish all backlogged dissertations. However, the current ones will give you an idea of what our dissertations look like should you be interested in writing your own.
Complete Any Holistic Doctorate or Practice Minor Certification
Once you've completed your coursework, submit a request to certify here, which completes a written essay requirement to help improve your written communication skills and develop your brand, tone, voice, messaging, and delivery so you can fully reach the people you're specially coded to help.
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Dissertation Requirements
If you wish to write a dissertation, here are some quick guidelines.
Doctoral Dissertation Specifications
Dissertations must be written in Google Docs, not Microsoft Word, and when shared, must be shared with editing privileges, where we can make notes if needed.
Your dissertation can be as little as 5,000 words up to 25,000 words, 1.15 line spacing, in size 13 Century Gothic font on a holistic subject of your choice, most likely an area in which you will specialize.
Your dissertation word limit may include footnotes and end notes but excludes appendices, references, title page, and a required bibliography.
In addition, figures, tables, and images should be counted as the equivalent of 75 words for each page or part of a page, with a limit of 12 images and graphs.
All new incoming papers must also include an abstract. Most dissertations are returned once or twice for editing, but after this process, they are considered complete and can be published.
See our blog for some examples of dissertations.
