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Council on Chiropractic Education ignores input from profession on standards
January 25, 2011 — A report by Dr. Steven Welsh of the Georgia Chiropractic Council (GCC) indicates that the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) has seemingly ignored the overwhelming input from the profession at large.
In September 2010, the CCE Task Force on Accreditation Standards released a second draft to the public for comments. At the latest meeting Jan. 14, the CCE met and adopted new educational standards that will become effective in January of next year.
Welsh, who attended the public proceedings, reports that the CCE President announced that the Council had received two complaints. No details were provided. Council members were reminded of the need for complete confidentiality. In October 2010, it was reported by Welsh that the CCE had received approximately 3,000 submissions from the profession.
During their annual business meeting last Friday, the CCE reviewed and approved the 3rd draft submitted by the Task Force, which included multiple amendments by individual council members. One proposed amendment was not approved by the council. Based on feedback from the chiropractic profession, Dr. Guy Riekeman suggested that the new standards include a reference to the
foundational concepts upon which our profession is based. According to Welsh, those are that:
The core content, or topics of study, on a foundational basis include:
1. The human body is intelligent and is a self-healing, maintaining, and regenerating organism.
2. The nervous system is critical to the healthy functioning and adaption of the organism.
3. Dysfunction of the relationship between structure, primarily of the spine and function, primarily of the nervous system results in adverse health affects.
4. Within the clinical application of chiropractic, correction of subluxations and/or other neuro-biomechanical faults focuses on the goal of reducing the burden of disease, advancing disease prevention and promoting health and wellness.
After a discussion of the fact that the CCE doesn't support any specific philosophy and a comment from one council member that subluxation is not evidence informed, the council overwhelmingly defeated the motion.
As the foundation continues to investigate this matter, they encourage their subscribers to also remain alert to the changes that will be implemented by the CCE.
Source: Foundation for Vertebral Subluxation, http://vertebralsubluxation.health.officelive.com
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Location: mississippi
I came across another remarkable statement about chiropractic. The profession is a doctorate program as a professional field of medicine. The reason of change is do for the patients in rural areas and lets face it I will be happy to change just like osteopathy in recent years, and losing our identity? Be realistic my fellow Doctors, The next step will be surgical residency in hospitals.
Location: Virginia
Thank God the CCE did the right thing here and put religious chiropractic philosophy aside. The future of chiropractic is for DC's who get proper training to do what they feel they need to do to take care of their patients. Docs in rural areas may feel they need to get training to inject a trigger point, prescribe the occasional muscle relaxer, etc. Who is it of any of you to tell me or others what I shouldn't and should do? Evidenced based health care is here and there isn't
Location: New Jersey
The CCE has shown that it is not interested in representing chiropractic. Obviously all chiropractic schools in the USA must follow CCE rules in order to receive accreditation. As a result students receive a schizophrenic education...Sometimes chiropractic...sometimes medicine...Sadly the move has been more towards medicine. Our only hope to re-orient the lost students (future generations of chiropractors) is to actively encourage their involvement in organizations that still teach the
Location: MA
This doesn't surprise me at all. I hesitate to even say I'm a chiropractor if I'm saying something adverse to the medical industry since so many chiropractors might as well be MD's; my being a chiropractor means nothing. I've been more and more shocked hearing chiropractors who vaccinate their kids and take antibiotics themselves as well as other drugs too. I see promotions in their offices for cancer industry charity activities. And doesn't Palmer in Davenport
Location: NC
I do not understand how they can say there were only 2 complaints. I know more submissions that came just from my office. What can we do about the fact that our voices are being ignored? It feels similar to what occurred between Dr. Wilk vs AMA but from within our own profession. Chiropractic called to me as a profession, allopathic medicine did not.