The Road to Success of Naturopathy Curriculum Setting in Thailand: Experience

Authors

  • Prof. Viroj Wiwanitkit Director, Editorial Office, Hainan Medical University
  • Wasana Kaewla Surin Rajabhat University, Thailand

Keywords:

curriculum

Abstract

Dear editor, a way to promote the classical alternative medicine knowledge is development of updated curriculum for using in present education. In Thailand, there are many alternative medicine systems but naturopathy has just been promoted for a few years. Naturopathy is the important kind of alternative medicine. This is a new thing in some settings such as Thailand. In Thailand, the first curriculum has just been developed for a few years.

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Published

2019-01-04

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2018): Journal of Advanced Research in Business Law & Technology Management

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