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Doctor of Chiropractic Program Mission and Goals
Mission Statement
D’Youville College’s chiropractic program strives to prepare knowledgeable and highly skilled primary healthcare practitioners—through research, related scholarly activities and service—to achieve excellence in expressing the science of chiropractic and the art of healing.
Goals
- To provide the student with a core of knowledge in the basic and clinical sciences and related health subjects sufficient to perform the professional obligations of a doctor of chiropractic.
- To prepare primary healthcare practitioners with a professional ethos expressed through a lifetime commitment to provide service to underserved populations and support of research to advance the science of chiropractic and the chiropractic profession.
- To prepare doctors of chiropractic as primary care doctors, whose purpose as a practitioner of the healing arts is to help meet the health needs of individual patients and of the public, focusing particular attention on the structural and neurological aspects of the body.
- To prepare chiropractors who understand that their practice is based on an emerging chiropractic science that concerns itself with the relationship between structure, primarily the spine, and function, primarily coordinated by the nervous system of the human body, as that relationship may affect the restoration and preservation of health by focusing on the inherent ability of the body to heal without the use of drugs or surgery.
- To prepare practitioners to assume the role of primary care doctors, which includes wellness promotion, health assessment, diagnosis and the chiropractic management of the patient’s healthcare needs and to recognize when co-management or referral to other health care providers is necessary.