You Aren’t A REAL Doctor…
March 24, 2010
What most people don’t realize is that to become a doctor of chiropractic is a long process! Most chiropractic colleges now require an undergraduate degree to be accepted in to Chiropractic college and then it is a 4 year program, including an internship, to graduate.
A classmate of mine once estimated that between mid-terms, finals, national board exams, state board exams, jurisprudence exams and radiology exams that we write between 600-700 exams before we graduate. We also are required to have continuing education every year including the areas of adjustive technique and x-ray.
What many people find interesting is the hours for medical school and the hours for chiropractic college are almost identical.
Chiropractic Education Medical Education
Class Hours Subject Class Hours
520 Anatomy 508
420 Physiology 326
271 Pathology 335
300 Chemistry 325
114 Bacteriology 130
370 Diagnosis 374
320 Neurology 112
217 X-Ray 148
65 Psychiatry 144
65 Obstetrics & Gynecology 198
225 Orthopedics 156
2,887 TOTAL HOURS 2,756
Other required subject for doctors of chiropractic:
Adjusting, Manipulation, Kinesiology, and other similar basic subjects related to their specialty.
Other required subjects for doctors of medicine:
Pharmacology, Immunology, general surgery, and other similar basic subjects related to their specialty.
GRAND TOTAL CLASS HOURS
CHIROPRACTIC MEDICAL
4,485 4,248
Does philosophy dictate whether or not we are considered “real”? I’ll tell you what’s real, seeing true and incredible healing every day coming from WITHIN, seeing the change in our practice members lives because they chose to do something different….that’s REAL.
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