The document discusses the need for chiropractic students to have better preparation for starting a private practice after graduation. It proposes creating a shared online space for students, alumni, and faculty to collaborate. This would include content on practice management skills, networking in action learning teams, and sharing information on insurance options. Feedback was provided on aspects of the proposal that worked well and could be improved, such as making certain elective courses mandatory and developing hands-on business planning assignments. Interviews with recent graduates confirmed interest in courses on finding jobs, marketing, and starting a private practice.

1. Prototype & Testing

2. Former Students of Chiropractic medicine
desiring to start their own practice
… need a better way to establish a path to
a successful private practice
because… a person graduating from
Chiropractic school is not certain to have
the business skills or finances to ensure
success

3.  Dummy Share point site

4. What Worked Well
Questions
What could be improved
Ideas
 Will the school support it? – critical
 What is action learning?
 Will there be mobile access?
 What software do I have to have to access it?
 How do you keep successful practitioners
coming back to help the rest of us – what is in
it for them?
 Content “right on”
 Love the idea of action learning teams to help
me solve problems or challenges
 Great idea to share low cost and chiropractic
friendly insurance companies
 Tied to a grade (A/B/C/D) the last year of
school
 Have students join 2 years before grad –
once practicum begins
 Add a contact page (email, phone number)
 Not sure about blogs – they seem to get so
opinionated – how do you manage the
rambling
 Minimize ads or none if possible (“hate them”)
 Can it be tied to Facebook group? Can you just
use Facebook group to do this?
 Keep ads to a minimum or avoid all together
 Keep it fresh – maybe let the seniors
administrate the site but not the content

5.  Course Curriculum added three test classes to the
elective course list
Electives
Course
Number
Course Title Credits LectHours Lab
E7207 ADAPTING CHIROPRACTIC TECHNIQUE FOR THE GERIATRIC POPULATION
0.75 1.5
E7502 AN INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED ERGONOMICS 0.75 0.75
E7301 CHALLENGING CASES IN A CHIROPRACTIC PRACTICE 0.75 0.75
E7205 CHIROPRACTIC INSTRUMENT ADJUSTING/ACTIVATOR METHODS 0.75 1.5
E7401 CLINICAL IMAGING - A MULTI-MODALITY CASE STUDY APPROACH 0.75 0.75
UGE3710 COMMUNICATION SKILLS 3
E7101 CRITICAL ISSUES IN SOCIAL BIOLOGY 0.75 0.75
UGE3730 ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS 3
TEST1 FINDING A JOB IN THE FIELD
E7206 FLEXION DISTRACTION 0.75 1.5
E7304 HIGH SCHOOL PRE-PARTICIPATION PHYSICAL & FITNESS CHALLENGE 0.75 0.5 0.8
E7201 INSTRUMENT ASSISTED SOFT-TISSUE MOBILIZATION (GRASTON) 0.75 1.5
E7501 INTRODUCTION TO OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 1 0.75 0.75
TEST2 MARKETING FOR PRIVATE PRACTICE
UGE3720 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 3
E7202 SPECIAL TOPICS IN CHIROPRACTIC DIVERSIFIED TECHNIQUE 0.75 1.5
TEST3 STARTING A PRIVATE PRACTICE
E7505 STRESS REDUCTION TECHNIQUES - THE SPIRIT COMPONENT 0.75 1.5
E7203 STRUCTURAL APPROACH 1 - AXIAL SPINAL 0.75 1.5
E7204 STRUCTURAL APPROACH 2 - EXTREMITIES 0.75 1.5
UGE3740 UNDERSTANDING & USING RESEARCH 3

6.  Sat down with 2 Chiropractors <4 years out of
school
Asked: Which of the following electives would you
take? What would be your priority? What
method? (classroom, online, other)?
 What aspects worked well? What could be
improved? Any new ideas? Any new questions
that need exploring?

7. What Worked Well
Questions
What could be improved
Ideas
 Each person interview selected at least one
of the TEST classes
 They both were not sure that they would have
selected these classes when they were in
school – it wasn’t a priority in their thinking at
that time. So could these courses be moved to
‘required’?
 The school should make the courses required
 Perhaps these classes can be held online to
better fit around the practicum schedule in the
final year
 Have one of the classes where the student
actually has to define their target market, find
a location, calculate their costs and develop a
marketing plan – then when they graduate the
material that they generated in class can be
put into action
 Add a class or seminar on completing forms –
all kinds, medicare, insurance, etc