December 2005

Cleveland College to teach USC medical interns

The chiropractic community has been asked to join forces with traditional allopathic practitioners in educating the next generation of medical doctors. Officials at Cleveland Chiropractic College’s Los Angeles campus have embarked on a groundbreaking merger involving healthcare professionals at CCCLA and the University of Southern California (USC) School of Medicine.

The program involves USC medical students who will participate in chiropractic rotations at the University Park Health Center (UPHC) on the USC Campus. During their course of study, the medical students will participate in chiropractic rotations just as they do with surgical, gynecological or dermatological rotations.

While completing chiropractic rotations, the medical interns will be allowed to observe, but not participate in, the discussion, palpation, assessment and adjustment of patients.

The program comes slightly more than two years after a CCCLA/USC agreement was forged for Cleveland interns to provide chiropractic care as part of the UPHC services.

The rotation program was initiated after a UPHC medical doctor approached Howard Maize, DC, an instructor and supervising chiropractic clinician at CCCLA, about the possibility of exposing medical interns from USC to chiropractic treatment.

Maize looks forward to the day when reciprocity will allow chiropractic interns to observe medical rotations — something now under discussion with medical personnel at UPHC.

After being instrumental in the incorporation of chiropractic treatment at UPHC more than two years ago, Maize has seen chiropractic assume an increasingly important and valued role. In that time he has co-treated patients with medical doctors, and evaluated, diagnosed, and treated some of the doctors, nurses and staff members at the health center.

All the while the patient base has continued to rise with little or no advertising. The increase is attributed primarily to word-of-mouth as patients share with others their positive experiences about chiropractic. This gradual process has been was worth the wait for Maize.

Carl S. Cleveland III, DC, Cleveland College president, believes the long-term ramifications of this partnership will be beneficial for chiropractic.

Source: Cleveland College of Chiropractic, www.cleveland.edu

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