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Session: Wellness in Education and Practice
3308.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Wellness in Education and Practice
This session's focus is primarily the establishing of wellness competencies in chiropractic education and models of wellness in clinical practice. Reported on will be an international health promotion initiative and an exploration of the demographic characteristics of an underserved population.
Learning Objectives: •List main objectives of the Council on Chiropractic Education's wellness competencies •Describe a practical, efficient method to deliver a thorough wellness visit in a chiropractic practice. •Discuss the evolving role of chiropractic in health promotion and prevention •Describe key elements in developing a community health outreach in third world countries. •Identify characteristics of Medicaid patients presenting to an academic chiropractic clinic and utilize this information to improve outreach to underserved populations
Moderator(s):Marion Willard Evans, DC, PhD, CHES
2:30 PM   Evidence Based, Efficient Tool to Deliver Overall Wellness Visits in a Private Office
Gerald L. Stevens, DC , MS, MPH
2:48 PM   Chiropractic education and the CCE wellness comptencies: Using HP2010 to shape the next generation of chiropractors
Lisa Z. Killinger, DC, Shayan Sheybani, DC, MBA
3:06 PM   Promoting community health in the third world: "Straighten Up" in Bangalore, India
Ron Kirk, MA, DC
3:24 PM   Required clinical competencies: Wellness
Gene S. Tobias, PhD, DC, Anupama Kizhakkeveettil, BAMS (Ayu), MAOM, David M. Sikorski, DC
3:42 PM   Medicaid patient characteristics at an academic chiropractic clinic: Retrospective demographics, outcomes, and analysis
Jonathon Todd Egan, DC, MPH, Jason Gerard Napuli, DC, MBA
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Chiropractic Health Care
Endorsed by:Maternal and Child Health
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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