The Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) will hold its annual meeting January 20-23 in Scottsdale, Arizona. CCE is the nation's official accrediting agency for programs and institutions that offer the doctor of chiropractic degree.
Among items on the council's agenda, the CCE's commission onaccreditation (COA) will meet on the 20th and 21st to conductstatus reviews of two programs; review a progress report from oneaccredited program; and discuss other important COA matters.
On the last day of the annual meeting, the council's board ofdirectors will consider proposed substantive revisions andrecommendations for the CCE bylaws and the Standards forChiropractic Programs and Institutions. Proposed changes to "thecriteria for accreditation" portion of the standards are aimed to:
When I graduated from chiropractic college in 1981 and started practice, I heard it all, and very little was positive. “You are a quack; you do not know what a subluxation is; you couldn’t get into a real health care program, so you chose the one that is slightly above a mail-order degree; you have no proof that chiropractic works; Are you really licensed?”, and so much more.
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