October 10, 2002
The New California Chiropractic
Coursework
Title 16
California Code of Regulations
Division 4. State Board of Chiropractic Examiners
Section 331.12.2(e). Curriculum
(Effective October 10, 2002)
(e) Clinics: Each student shall be provided with actual clinical
experience in the examining, diagnosing, and treatment of patients.
Such clinical experience shall include spinal analysis, palpation,
chiropractic philosophy, symptomatology, laboratory diagnosis, physical
diagnosis, X-ray interpretation, postural analysis, diagnostic impressions,
and adjusting of various articulations of the body, psychological
counseling and dietetics. Individual case files on each patient
together with a record of dates and treatments given and student
treating shall be kept and available to the board for inspection.
Clinical hours, as described in this section, including those relating
to physiotherapy, must be completed in a clinic operated or supervised
by a chiropractic college.
Each student shall be required to complete, as a minimum for graduation,
the following:
(1) Twenty-five (25) physical examinations of which at least ten
(10) are of outside (not student) patients. A physical examination
shall include evaluation of all vital signs, case history, orthopedic
and neurological testing.
Students shall also have practical clinical laboratory training,
including twenty-five (25) urinalyses, twenty (20) complete blood
counts (CBCs), ten (10) blood chemistries, and thirty (30) X-ray
examinations. Students shall perform ten (10) proctological and
ten (10) gynecological examinations. Proctological and gynecological
examinations may be performed on a phantom approved by the Board.
Gynecological and proctological examinations not completed prior
to graduation may be completed after graduation at a Board-approved
chiropractic college.
(2) Students shall perform a minimum of two hundred and fifty (250)
patient treatments (visits), including diagnostic procedures, chiropractic
adjustive technique and patient evaluation.
(3) Written interpretation of at least thirty (30) different X-ray
views, either slide or film, while a senior in the clinic, in addition
to other classroom requirements which shall include the spinal column,
all other articulations of the body, and soft tissue.
(4) Minimum of five hundred eighteen (518) hours of practical clinical
experience (treating patients in the clinic).
[Editor's
Note: Authority cited: Section 1000-4(b), Business and Professions
Code (Chiropractic Initiative Act of California, Stats. 1923, p.
lxxxvii). Reference: Section 1000-4(g) and 5, Business and Professions
Code (Chiropractic Initiative Act of California, Stats. 1923, p.
lxxxvii). See www.chiro.ca.gov]
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