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2011 ACC-RAC Recap from Palmer Chancellor
3/29/2011 (Archived)
March 29, 2011
I recently attended and participated in the 2011 Association of
Chiropractic Colleges Research Agenda Conference (ACC-RAC). My principle
involvement was a two-day meeting with the other chiropractic college
presidents/CEOs to discuss overall chiropractic enrollment, state board
licensure issues, changes to the CCE Standards, the importance of research, and
a variety of other timely and challenging topics. However, after my two-day
meeting, I had the opportunity to attend many of the paper, poster, workshop and
plenary sessions that were scheduled throughout the conference.
It was very exciting to see the scope and breadth of participation from
Palmer College and its three campuses. Our showing was extremely impressive.
Scholarly presentations from Palmer College faculty, clinicians, staff and
administrators comprised nearly 30 percent of all presentations made. Palmer
personnel were involved in workshops, college subgroup meetings, platform
sessions and poster presentations well beyond those from other chiropractic
institutions. At the end of this letter, I have included the substantial list of
presenters, their respective presentations and the names of those who were
honored at ACC-RAC for their award-winning presentations.
I want to personally thank all the Palmer people who had a presentation of
any type at ACC-RAC, but in particular, I would like to especially thank those
presenters supported by our R25 Evidence-Based Chiropractic Practice (EBCP)
grant. Considering all the EBCP and R25 posters and presentations I have seen
over the past three years from other institutions with R25 grants (three other
chiropractic college have a similar R25 grant), I was so pleased to see our
Palmer faculty invoking evidence-based practice through very practical and
measurable classroom EBCP student experiences. While I appreciate addressing
EBCP at the program level, the primary purpose of programs addressing any
curricular issue is to impact learning. Other colleges may take justifiable
pride for their own R25 efforts, but as Palmer Vice Chancellor for Academics Dr.
Bucky Percuoco commented to me during one of the sessions, no other group of
presenters seems yet positioned to measure student learning based on strategic
instruction, as the Palmer cohort has clearly done.
Again, I am very proud of the work of those who were involved with ACC-RAC,
and I want the entire Palmer community to be aware of their efforts to advance
Palmer College as “The Trusted Leader in Chiropractic Education.”
Dennis M. Marchiori, D.C., Ph.D.
Chancellor
The following Palmer College presentations were honored at ACC-RAC as top
research and education papers. They will be published in an upcoming issue of a
chiropractic journal and their authors will receive a cash prize.
- He X, Canty A. Empowering student learning through rubric-referenced
self-assessment. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011 (To be published
in the Journal of Chiropractic Education)
- Owens E, Gudavalli R, Schulz C, Wilder D, Hondras M, Bronfort G.
Paraspinal muscle function assessed with the flexion-relaxation ratio at
baseline in a population of patients with back-related leg pain. ACC-RAC
2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011 (To be published in the Journal of
Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics)
Palmer College ACC-RAC presentations for 2011
- Stites J, Boesch R. Applied Evidence Based Practice: Teaching and Using
EBP (Workshop Participant). ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Pickar J, Reed W, Cao DY, Kawchuk G. Effect of the mechanical
characteristics (magnitude and duration) of a spinal manipulative thrust on
lumbar paraspinal muscle spindle discharge. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV,
3/18-19/2011
- Cooperstein R, Young M, Haneline M. At What Angle of Hip Flexion Is the
Gillet Test the Most Effective for Detecting Sacroiliac Motion. ACC-RAC
2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Stites J, Lawrence J. Developing a Clinical Practice Journal Club. ACC-RAC
2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- DeVocht J, Gudavalli R. Characterizing the Toggle-Recoil Delivery of
Practicing Clinicians. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Lawrence DJ. Human Subject Research: Reporting Informed Consent and
Ethics Approval in Three Chiropractic Journals. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV,
3/18-19/2011
- Killinger L. Helping uni-professionally trained students to think
integratively: An interactive educational intervention. ACC-RAC 2011, Las
Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Smith M, Davis M. Immunization Status of Adult Chiropractic Patients:
Analyses of National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas
NV, 3/18-19/2011
- He X, Canty A. Empowering student learning through rubric-referenced
self-assessment. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Cooperstein C, Laquex M. The concurrent validity of the block method for
measuring anatomical leg length inequality: A literature review. ACC-RAC
2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Nightingale L. Concept Mapping as a Study Tool for Chiropractic Students
in a Basic Science Course. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Meseke C, Meseke J, Nafziger R. The case for collaborative assessment of
students: a meta-analysis. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Young M, Cooperstein R. Reliability of the standing hip flexion test: A
systematic review. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Anderson M, Butler C. Management considerations in a transtibial amputee
with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (Poster). ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV,
3/18-19/2011
- Anderson M, Barber M. Kinetic chain dysfunction in a 16-year-old soccer
player with ankle pain (Poster). ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Boesch R, Owens J, Silverman S, Klimek M. Cervical Spondylitic
Myelopathy: A Case Report (Poster). ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Boesch R, Stick M, Illingworth R, Borcher E. Glioma with Subdural
Hematoma Initial Management: A Case Report (Poster) . ACC-RAC 2011, Las
Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Cole R, Boesch R, Cole B. Chiropractic Management of Cycling Induced
Median and Ulnar Neuropathy (Poster). ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV,
3/18-19/2011
- Hubbard T, Pickar J, Lawrence DJ, Duray S. Reliability of the Blair
Upper Cervical Radiographic Analysis for the Base Posterior View: A
Feasibility Study (Poster). ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Hubbard T, Kane J. Essential tremor, Migraine and upper cervical
chiropractic: a case report (Poster). ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV,
3/18-19/2011
- Juehring D. A Case Study Utilizing Vojta/Dynamic Neuromuscular
Stabilization Therapy to Control Symptoms of a Chronic Migraine Sufferer
(Poster). ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Byrd L, Long C, Zhang L, Cooperstein R, Pickar J, Henderson C. Mentored
research opportunities for students in a doctor of chiropractic program.
ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Nafziger R. For the Good of All: A Collaborative Effort to Develop and
Deliver an Excellence in College Teaching Certificate Program for
Chiropractic College Faculty. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Smith M. Usual Source of Care for persons with and without Back Pain (MEPS
data). ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Kime N. Using evidence based clinical practice principles to utilize and
enhance student clinical reasoning skills in a classroom-based case
management course: A pilot project. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Stites J, Boesch R. Preparing for teaching moments in evidence-based
clinical practice. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- McLean I. Application of the MIRC radiology database in a chiropractic
educational environment. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Barber M, Boesch R, Nightingale L, Tunning M, Stites J. Enhancing the
Use of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Methods Through Diffusion of
Innovation Theory and a Train-the-Trainer Model in Chiropractic Education.
ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Zhang N, Chawla S. The Effect of Problem-Based Video Instruction on
Learning in Physical Examination: An Alternative Paradigm for Chiropractic
Students. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Boesch R, Illingworth R. WIKI a Collaborative Faculty Development Tool.
ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Nightingale L. Integration of Evidenced-Based Clinical Practice into a
Basic Science Course. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Rowell R, Tunning M. Evidence-based clinical practice in chiropractic:
Description of a class assignment and survey of student knowledge and
attitudes. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Stites J, McLean I. Teaching evidence based clinical practice concepts
using radiology case types at a chiropractic college. ACC-RAC 2011, Las
Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Owens E, Gudavalli R, Schulz C, Wilder D, Hondras M, Bronfort G.
Paraspinal muscle function assessed with the flexion-relaxation ratio at
baseline in a population of patients with back-related leg pain. ACC-RAC
2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Tunning M, Rowell R. Evidence-based clinical practice: experience of an
early adopter adding an assignment in EBCP to a class. ACC-RAC 2011, Las
Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Kinsinger S, Lawrence DJ. Addressing the Hidden Curriculum in
Chiropractic Education (Workshop Participant). ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV,
3/18-19/2011
- Goertz C. Practical integrative healthcare models for chiropractic
(Workshop Participant). ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- He X, Canty A. Empowering student learning through rubric-referenced
self-assessment. ACC-RAC 2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011
- Owens E, Gudavalli R, Schulz C, Wilder D, Hondras M, Bronfort G.
Paraspinal muscle function assessed with the flexion-relaxation ratio at
baseline in a population of patients with back-related leg pain. ACC-RAC
2011, Las Vegas NV, 3/18-19/2011