Palmer College of Chiropractic

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Clinic Abroad Program

The Clinic Abroad Program of Palmer College of Chiropractic is an optional clinical education program for qualified senior-level students. The program allows student externs opportunities to gain a wide variety of clinical experiences in a unique off-campus setting. With the assistance of an on-site coordinator, a team of student externs, faculty and staff provide Chiropractic care to underserved populations. Although most program locations are outside of the United States, opportunities on Native American Indian Reservations are also offered.

The mission of the Clinic Abroad Program is to provide a unique and expanded clinical, educational and cultural experience for student externs, faculty and alumni while promoting the Chiropractic profession and Palmer College of Chiropractic. This is achieved by providing quality and humanitarian care to underserved populations around the world.

Program Goals and Objectives

To offer quality clinical education in a unique learning environment:

• By providing chiropractic care to patients in underserved areas of the world.

• By providing chiropractic care to patients presenting with a wide variety of clinical conditions.

• By providing student externs with an opportunity to see a large volume of patients and master patient examination and chiropractic adjusting skills.

• By providing a clinic situation in which the student extern must apply the basic, chiropractic and clinical sciences to enhance their decision-making and clinical skills.

• By fostering close interaction between students and experienced faculty clinicians and alumni field doctors.

To broaden the educational experience acquired in the classroom:

• By observing, sharing and interacting with health care providers in different professions, including medical doctors, nurses, pharmacists and providers of alternative and complementary health care professions.

• By visiting, observing and sharing information with other health care institutions, clinics and hospitals.

• By teaching about the health care practices of other countries or cultures through organized lectures and working in interdisciplinary settings.

• By observing and caring for many conditions ordinarily discussed only in the classroom.

To increase the cultural awareness of students leading to the development of mature and experienced professionals:

• By traveling to countries or locations in all parts of the world and experiencing first-hand, the culture of a different people.

• By encouraging close interaction with other people to gain an understanding and appreciation of the social, cultural and political experiences of others.

• By offering lectures, presentations and readings about different countries, their people, history and traditions.

• By providing direct and contrasting experience with many basic sociological concepts, heightening sensitivity to the importance of multiculturalism in our increasingly shrinking and interactive world.

To further develop the humanitarian and service orientation of Doctors of Chiropractic:

• By letting participants see people with great health care needs and become keenly aware of the opportunity and responsibility of sharing their talents and skills with less fortunate people.

To promote the Chiropractic profession, Palmer College of Chiropractic, Palmer College of Chiropractic West and Palmer College of Chiropractic Florida to the world, students, externs, faculty clinicians and alumni field doctors:

• By providing quality, professional care in areas of the world where health care is desperately needed.

• By instilling in them a new and refreshing appreciation for Chiropractic and their clinical education.

• By providing presentations and news releases about Clinic Abroad Program experiences.

• By providing participants with opportunities to create a new and important multicultural and international appreciation throughout the entire campus.

 Clinic Abroad Program Web site

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