Chiropractic education is every bit as comprehensive as is medical education. Before being accepted by a chiropractic college, students now must have completed a minimum of three years of undergraduate studies.

Once in Chiropractic College, four years of intensive studying and training are completed.

Chiropractic Compared To Medical Education

This comparison chart is based on the review of curriculum catalogues from eleven chiropractic colleges and twenty-two medical schools in North America. It clearly shows that chiropractors are among the best trained health practitioners you can find. Please note that chiropractic schools study both geriatrics and pediatrics, while eye, ear, nose, throat and dermatology are combined with diagnosis.

After students have acquired the necessary foundation of knowledge during the early part of their schooling, they later focus on specialized subjects, including chiropractic philosophy and practice, along with chiropractic diagnosis and adjusting techniques that aren't taught in any other health care field.

In addition to classroom and lab work, each student chiropractor must complete a period of internship during which students care for a large number of patients under the close supervision of instructors.

Before obtaining their degrees, all students, must complete approximately nine-hundred hours of work in the clinic setting. Because chiropractic students don't have to spend time studying pharmacology or surgery, as their medical counterparts do, they are given additional training in anatomy, nutrition, diagnosis, palpation, X-ray and a variety of adjusting techniques. In fact, chiropractic students log more educational hours in these subjects than their medical counterparts.