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Chiropractic Education
Chiropractic education is typically a four year highly specialized doctoral program with a similar amount of classroom and hands-on training as a medical school curriculum. Over 2800 hours of anatomy (including gross anatomy with cadavers), physiology, pathology, chemistry, nutrition, bacteriology, diagnosis, x-ray, orthopedics, neurology, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology and, of course, chiropractic technique, as well as other allied subjects are required. There is demanding written, oral and practical testing and an internship program is mandatory to obtain a Doctor of Chiropractic degree (D.C.). A new Doctor of Chiropractic must then pass national board exams and state license exams before being allowed to practice. Continuing education is compulsory every year providing current information as well as additional training in programs in a variety of more specialized areas.
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