What happens during the program?

Questions people ask at this stage

Each opens a page of what the institutions themselves publish. More questions, and the ones published sources cannot answer: Start with a question.

• Who can I talk to?
• Where can I practice once I graduate?

Where to look

The parts of this directory that hold what this stage asks about.

• If you are in a program now

  Your board examinations, what your state will require, specialty routes and when you can start them, and your first year after graduation.

• Your board examinations

  The national board examinations and where the testing body publishes its fee schedule.

• Specialty routes

  Specialty credentials, and when each body says you can begin it and hold it.

• Organizations

  The profession's associations, student wings and credentialing bodies, each described from its own pages.

• Techniques

  The technique traditions, seminars and communities of chiropractic, each described from its own pages.

Things to find out

Questions to look into, each linked to the page that records what the bodies publish on it.

1. What does the testing body publish about the examination parts, and where is its fee schedule? Your board examinations →
2. What will your state board require of you? What your state will require →
3. What does your state board publish about practice by a student before licensure? Licensure: the states documented, each with a student-practice field →
4. Which specialty credentials can you begin as a student, and when can you hold each one? Specialty routes →
5. If you came in on a pathway agreement, what did it commit to? If you came in on a pathway →
6. What does each technique tradition publish about student pricing and certification? Techniques →