October 2005

Sandefur and colleagues publish in JMPT

Ruth Sandefur, vice president of academic services and chief academic officer at Cleveland Chiropractic College, recently co-authored a paper published in the June 2005 edition of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT). The article entitled “Assessment of Knowledge of Primary Care Activities in a Sample of Medical and Chiropractic Students,” analyzed the knowledge of primary care tasks of chiropractic students versus medical students.

By utilizing focus groups and consensus methods, a panel of medical, osteopathic and chiropractic physicians, along with other healthcare practitioners, identified primary care tasks.

The study determined that scores for the medical students were higher than those of their chiropractic counterparts when dealing with the non-musculoskeletal conditions. However, scores for the medical students were inferior to those of the chiropractic students on the neuromusculoskeletal questions.

According to Sandefur, the most recent portion of the study reinforced that chiropractors are highly knowledgeable in the area of neuromusculoskeletal conditions, a fact most chiropractic educators already knew.

Source: Cleveland Chiropractic College, www.cleveland.edu

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