4 Comments for Are online programs to become a holistic health practitioner legitimate?

• 1. juicefastfan  |  February 15th, 2011 at 9:14 am

  I can’t say anything positive or negative about those places because I know nothing about them personally, but I faced this same question, for myself, a couple years ago. Ultimately, it came down to asking myself another question…..would I WANT to go to someone that got their education online, and for me, the answer was no. But, I still had the desire to enter this field so I looked around at different places for a year, while I saved up enough money and found one thats only an hour away from my house. I’m just now starting my 3rd year.

  Ask yourself and some friends the same question, and see what answers you come up with….would you want to go to an HHP that received the bulk of their education online??

• 2. William T  |  February 15th, 2011 at 9:14 am

  I will give you this one piece of advice. My father is a professor and often chairs committees to hire new professors. He frequently sees resumes from people who got their master’s degree or Ph.D. from an online university. He says that those applications are always thrown out immediately because real colleges and universities do not consider online degrees to be valid. It pains him to do it, because he doesn’t want to tell them that their degree is worthless, but at the same time it really is. If academics don’t consider the degree valid then maybe it isn’t worth the time and money.

  The difference between dietitian and nutritionist is that dietitian is a protected term, you actually have to pass standardized tests and be licensed and so forth. Anyone who wants to can just call themselves a nutritionist. If I needed a person to talk to about what I eat I would always go to a dietitian because I know they are actually well schooled and base their advice in science.

• 3. Christina  |  April 14th, 2011 at 4:33 pm

  I don’t have the answer to this, but I do have some opinions on online education. I attended a school online for a year. I learned SOOOO MUCH!! I learned FAR more than sitting in a classroom. I had SOOO MUCH more interaction with my professors than I get sitting in a classroom.
  I decided to transfer my credits to a traditional university (because I was changing majors and needed to go elsewhere). I’ve been VERY disappointed. The level of education is simply not the same, in my case. My online school had much higher standards then the unversity I am now attending. I am HIGHLY disappointed with my current university and wish I could go back to my online school where I actually LEARNED something. All I am doing now is reading and memorizing. I’m not being educated. I’m being told what to read and what to memorize.
  Online education can be tricky. You MUST do your homework, on the school, I mean. There are a lot of “scams”, but there are a lot of legitimate online schools. The thing is, most universities offer classes online now, even the ones in your own city. You can get entire degrees online from traditional unversities, yet somehow that is better than going to a school that advertises online??? That makes no sense to me.

• 4. Christina  |  April 14th, 2011 at 4:37 pm

  Just as a note: The University of Utah is considered to be a very creditable medical school. They are difficult to get into and offer excellent top notch medical education for MDs, LNP, PA, and so forth. DID YOU KNOW???? They actually offer an ONLINE program to become a Licensed Nurse Practitioner????? Humm….but yet, the degree would simply state that you became and LNP at University of Utah. Not quite fair, is it??

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