Prototype & Testing

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

Dummy Share point site

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

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 0.75E7301 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 FIELDE7206 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 0.75TEST2 MARKETING FOR PRIVATE PRACTICE

UGE3720 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 3

E7202 SPECIAL TOPICS IN CHIROPRACTIC DIVERSIFIED TECHNIQUE 0.75 1.5TEST3 STARTING A PRIVATE PRACTICEE7505 STRESS REDUCTION TECHNIQUES - THE SPIRIT COMPONENT 0.75 1.5E7203 STRUCTURAL APPROACH 1 - AXIAL SPINAL 0.75 1.5E7204 STRUCTURAL APPROACH 2 - EXTREMITIES 0.75 1.5

UGE3740 UNDERSTANDING & USING RESEARCH 3

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?

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