1 month module courses

[hafido]

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Hi, i have a friend who is going to apply to Chiropactic school this year. Point being, he is taking his prerequisite science courses at Palmer school in Nor Cal; each class lasts 1 month, that is 15 hours broken up over the wekend. Does anyone know if those courses can transfer to Dental schools. From what i hear, they are fully accredited courses. Just curious.

 

[DesiDentist]

if these courses are transferable to a university then I don't think there should be any problem with dental schools accepting them. Just because this is a novel approach doesn't mean they aren't transferable.

DesiDentist

 

[yosemitesam]

I can't really answer your question directly. However, I do know that many chiropractic schools have trouble filling seats so they offer these pre-req programs as a way to get any live, tuition-paying human into the chiropractic program. If he is not sure about chiropractic, he might really want to check out how these credits will transfer. Even if they are legitimately accredited, dental schools would probably look on them as junior college credits, which many dental schools won't accept.

Be vary wary of anything to do with chiropractic. And please, all you sons and daughters of chiropractors, don't flame my PM box. I'm not trying to offend anyone, just offering my opinion.

 

[ItsGavinC]

My neighbor is a chiro with an extremely large practice. He related to me that two years ago he received the title of "Chiropractic pediatric neurologist" (which is now posted on the sign to his office building) by attending a month-long "seminar" which was held on 4 consecutive week-ends. Each day was 4 hours long, with the exception of the final day, which was 3 hours. He said that gave him a total of 15 hours of instruction... except for the small fact that the continental breakfast that was provided took up well over an hour each day, and that they usually quit an hour early because nobody really wanted to be there on a Saturday.

You get my drift. Anyways, his points was that he gained a title by attending a course in which he actually received 1-2 hours of hands-on training, and probably only (according to him) 4-5 hours of actual lecture. Pretty interesting.

 

[yosemitesam]

Tell your friend he needs to be really sure about whether he really wants to do chiropractic. He should also do some serious research into the critics of chiropractic medicine. Here's a link to start out: http://gradschool.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.chirobase.org/03Edu/lattanze.html It's true that chiropractors can make some serious money - but so did Miss Cleo. 🙂