Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) recently announced that it has become the first private institution in Ontario to be granted the privilege of offering a professional health care degree. Essentially, this means that beginning with the August 2005 entering class, CMCC graduates will now officially earn the doctor of chiropractic degree following completion of the college's four-year chiropractic program.
Prior to the Post-Secondary Education Choice and Excellence Act of 2000, only publicly funded colleges/universities in Ontario could apply for degree-granting status; thus, CMCC's doctor of chiropractic diploma was not recognized by statute as a degree.* The Honourable Mary Anne Chambers, Minister of Training, Colleges, and Universities, granted consent to CMCC to offer the doctor of chiropractic degree following a rigorous evaluation process by the Post-Secondary Educational Quality Assurance Board, which was established in conjunction with the Act. The board's evaluation included a full organizational review, a program quality review, and two site visits to CMCC.
While in some ways a technical distinction, CMCC emphasizes that "degree-granting status is recognition of the quality of the college's doctor of chiropractic program. It sets the program within the hierarchy of education in Ontario as comparable to that of other primary contact health care professions, such as medicine, dentistry, and optometry."
CMCC anticipates that the ability to officially grant a chiropractic degree may have several additional benefits, including:
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