Doctor of Chiropractic Program

Our four year Doctor of Chiropractic Program provides an integrative curriculum aligned with CMCC's Model of Care: Chiropractic is a primary contact health care profession with expert knowledge in spinal and musculoskeletal health, emphasizing differential diagnosis, patient-centred care, and research. The curriculum ensures that beginning in Year I and increasingly throughout the program, students learn to integrate and apply theoretical knowledge to clinical practice, patient care and management.

Taught in a series of four modules per academic year, courses and content are layered over single or multiple modules to facilitate the essential integration of knowledge, skill and practice.

In Year I and Year II, students build their foundation of knowledge in basic sciences and pathology for clinical skills and decision making while also getting hands-on experience through chiropractic skills, diagnosis and symptomatology, orthopaedics and diagnostic imaging.

Year III emphasizes knowledge integration through case-based clinical material to prepare students for internship in the CMCC clinics.

Year IV is a 12-month clinical internship in two of CMCC's clinical settings where interns provide direct care and education to patients under a licensed chiropractor's supervision. Year IV students also engage in laboratory clerkships and advanced diagnostic imaging, public health and business management.

Located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, CMCC is a world leader in chiropractic education and research. CMCC is an academic institution offering a second entry undergraduate professional degree and postgraduate and continuing education programs. A not-for-profit, charitable organisation, CMCC receives no direct government funding and relies on membership, tuition and donations for support.

The undergraduate program at CMCC is a second entry honours baccalaureate degree program offered to qualified candidates who have completed a minimum of three years of university-level study before admission.

CMCC is recognized as one of the most innovative chiropractic institutions in North America, focusing on basic and applied research related to neuromusculoskeletal interactions and the study of chiropractic's role in integrated care and health promotion. CMCC provides chiropractic care for patients in its seven community based teaching clinics throughout the Greater Toronto Area.