Implementation of Chiropractic Health Care curricula at Tufts Medical School

As a public health care discipline, Chiropractic health care and its role in spinal health has the potential to impact our health care delivery system positively, but there is still lack of knowledge of Chiropractic, its identity, and the role that it plays in the health care team. Due to past historical political efforts, the implementation of services being rendered to the public on a large scale beyond the private practice still remains a challenge. In addition to the national underutilization of Chiropractic care, there is also a lack of understanding of what our profession does, how we do it, who we care for, and conditions cared for in our offices. In response to increasing public awareness of spinal health and knowledge of our profession this starts with our future primary care physicians who in many situations act as the primary triage. The curriculum being presented at Tufts Medical School has the sole purpose to introduce medical students to the basics of the Chiropractic profession while having the ability to rotate through DC offices in the Boston metro area. The curriculum covers the following topics: Chiropractic philosophies, neurosciences, radiology, techniques, politics, education, health care policy, insurance considerations and clinical applications. The goal of this selective is to educate and allow medical student to have a much more in depth knowledge base of chiropractic health care, its potential, limitations, population that it serves as well as have a more broad approach to a drugless, non-invasive conservative approach to health and healing.