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Clinical Experience - Trimester 10

Clinical Internship 5
Students continue to serve in either a Northwestern outpatient clinic or any approved Community Based Internship (CBI) with a private doctor of Chiropractic. Interns carry out examinations, administer chiropractic care, and deliver treatment under the direction of clinical faculty or their CBI mentor, while completing their technical requirements for graduation.

Clinical Internship 6
For this experience students have the opportunity to select the doctor who will serve as their mentor. Most chiropractic programs offer an off-campus internship/externship; however, Northwestern was the first institution to introduce this 10th-term field internship in a practicing DC’s office. The term provides a bridge between the academic world and the real world of private practice.

This worldwide clinical education program is available to students who have successfully completed their clinical quantitative requirements as outlined by the Council on Chiropractic Education and Northwestern. Attempts have been made to copy this model, but none have been as successful as Northwestern in volume and variety of off-campus clinical experiences.

Service Learning
Service learning engages students in activities that combine community service and academic instruction. Course content focuses on civic responsibility, reflective thinking, and critical engagement with a community organization that meets local, national, or international needs. Students can participate in the following faculty-designed programs or design their own experience.

  • Interns can participate in a four-week clinical opportunity in Costa Rica. Supervised by chiropractic faculty, students educate, evaluate, and provide treatment to patients.
  • Chiropractic interns can accompany riders on the Heartland AIDS Ride. They evaluate patients and apply appropriate soft-tissue techniques and other modalities.
  • Interns can complete service learning hours regarding domestic violence at the Harriet Tubman Center and the Lewis House.
  • Hours can also be gained at the Aliveness Project, a Twin Cities center for persons with AIDS.

Clinical Education Remediation Panel (CERP)
Interns with clinical and interpersonal skill deficiencies are evaluated by the Clinical Education Remediation Panel, a standing University committee. When an intern needs a remediation plan, this panel creates, implements, and monitors the plan.

Licensure Information

  • Information regarding the Minnesota State Board of Chiropractic Examiners can be obtained at www.mn-chiroboard.state.mn.us
  • Persons with passing NBCE Part IV scores must take a written jurisprudence exam of Minnesota.
  • Licensees are not required to carry malpractice insurance.
    To contact other State Boards, use the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards Web site: www.fclb.org.

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Syllabus: Clinical Internship 5
Clinical Internship 6
  NWCC Intern’s Clinic Handbook (pdf)
Forms to plan for T10

-T-10 Information Packet (pdf)
-Checklist for finding T10 Placement (pdf)

-T10 FAQ (pdf)
-T10 Contract includes Learning Agreement (pdf) Note: Change printer settings to Landscape
-T10 Program Description (pdf)
- Plan Ahead Winter 08 (pdf)
- Plan Ahead Summer 08 (pdf)
- Plan Ahead Fall 08 (pdf)

Forms to use during T10:

-T10 X-ray Orientation (pdf)
-T10 Clinical Assignment (pdf)
-Mid Term Evaluation (pdf)
-Final Evaluation (pdf)
-Preceptor Experience Eval (pdf)

-T10Time Sheet (pdf)
- Early Graduation Policy (pdf)



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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