Outcomes for Chiropractic Graduates: Consultation on draft document – now closed
The Forum of Chiropractic Deans (FCD) is a group comprising the leaders of the UK’s chiropractic education programmes, and the Royal College of Chiropractors. It has the primary objective of harmonising chiropractic undergraduate education and training outcomes in the UK.
The FCD has produced a draft document entitled Outcomes for Chiropractic Graduates which seeks to define the knowledge, skills and competencies of newly qualified chiropractors in the UK. This document is intended to:
- Provide a clear framework for new and established programme providers in terms of core curriculum design, helping them produce graduates whose knowledge, skills and competencies meet the needs of the profession.
- Enable chiropractic students to understand what they will need to know and be able to do at the point of graduation, thus enabling them to play an active role in directing their own learning.
- Facilitate the identification of knowledge, skills and competencies that are postgraduate/relate to special interests.
- Enable patients, the public, health professionals, health & care organisations and commissioners to understand and recognise what chiropractors know and are able to do.
- Ensure postgraduate trainers and employers have a clear understanding and clear expectations of graduates’ attributes and can support and facilitate a smooth transition to autonomous professional practice.
- Help enable those returning to practice to identify and address professional learning needs.
- Help enable overseas graduates to recognise the knowledge, skills and competencies required for professional practice in the UK.
The FCD now wishes to consult widely with the UK chiropractic profession, but is also keen to hear from other health professionals, health & care organisations, commissioners, patients and the public. It particularly wishes obtain views on the following questions:
- Have we identified all the core competencies required of a recently graduated chiropractor? If not, what’s missing?
- Have we included competencies that you consider are not core? If so, please specify.
- Are the core competencies clearly expressed such that chiropractors, other health professionals, health & care organisations, commissioners, patients and public can reasonably be expected to understand what we mean?
The consultation document is available for review here.
To participate in the consultation, please download and complete the
and return it to admin@rcc-uk.org by the deadline of 5pm on Friday 6th May 2022.
