• Coulter ID

• Curriculum
• Education, Chiropractic

The following study is based on a participant observation study of one chiropractic college. It focuses on the nature and structure of the chiropractic curriculum. Through an analysis of the content of the curriculum as experienced by the students, it examines a core problem of contemporary chiropractic colleges, that of providing an integrating principle for the curriculum components. The results show that at the time of the study such a principle was lacking. It suggests that as chiropractic education continues in the present transition from the traditional philosophical and metaphysical beliefs to a more scientific, research-based curriculum, new integrative principles will need to be found to provide a coherence to the curriculum structure.

Author keywords: chiropractic curriculum integration

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