D'Youville College

D'Youville College in Buffalo, NY, offers a transdisciplinary approach to the health sciences that brings chiropractic into mainstream education. Embedded in the college/s 100-year history of liberal arts and health science disciplines, our new, fully accredited, integrative chiropractic degree program is the first of its kind nationwide and prepares chiropractic students as skilled leaders in their own profession and as respected partners in collaboration with diverse health care professionals.

Chiropractic students are trained as primary-care doctors who pro­vide a direct portal of entry into the health care system for people, using non-invasive and drugless care to foster the body/s innate ability to heal itself. Classes bring together several allied health professions to exchange theories and techniques that are held in common with chiropractic, while advanced courses in distinctly chiropractic skills, diagnostic imaging, spinal manipulation and physiological therapies are taught exclusively by chiropractic faculty. Case management encompasses complete care, often including nutrition counseling and exercise, and, when appropriate, mutual consultations with other health care specialists, thereby rendering the highest level of patient care.

The D'Youville Program

There are two degree formats, both built on a broad foundation of core humanities, the biosciences, and extensive hands-on chiro­practic skills training:

• A seven-year, two-degree format in which the pre-professional degree is a bachelor/s of science in biology (BS), awarded at the end of the fourth year, followed by a doctor of chiroprac­tic (DC) professional degree, at the end of the seventh year. Students who go on to the professional degree are admitted dir­ectly to that program without having to reapply. Additionally, undergraduate tuition rates apply throughout the seven years.
• A four-year, one-degree format that leads directly to the doctor of chiropractic degree (DC), which is open to persons who have completed at least 90 credit hours of specified courses.
• Both formats are designed for full-time study and include three summers.
• Second-career students who hold a degree in a health science discipline may qualify for advanced standing.
• Students who have a baccalaureate degree, but do not meet all the science requirements, may take the Pre-Professional Sciences Option, which affords accelerated sciences scheduling.

The D'Youville Advantage

• Our Faculty: Graduate faculties are certified and are practitioners, educators and published authors in their fields.
• Our Academic Facilities: We offer fully equipped biochemistry, microbiology, physiology, and neuroscience labs, as well as a gross anatomy lab for full-cadaver dissections. Our library complex houses 158,000 volumes, 7l9 current journals for independent review, as well as a campus-wide IT network.
• Collegial Group Learning: Cohorts of 15 or fewer allow personal faculty attention.
• Research: D'Youville's strong graduate research core develops critical methodologies that can further advance the science of chiropractic through evidence-based care.
• Comprehensive Clinical Internship: A minimum of 600 hours of clinical skills development in our new, on-campus and community-based chiropractic certification clinic turns theory into practice by honing techniques that are utilized daily in professional situations.
• Post-Certification Experience: We conduct externships in a variety of settings, form a large urban hospital to working one-on-one with private practice preceptors, that require 600 additional hours of observing and/or treating a range of patient conditions by employing preventative, corrective and rehabilitative techniques.
• Diagnostic Imaging: We teach the full spectrum of current imaging technologies from conventional radiography and MRI to CT, xylog­raphy, and radionuclide imaging.
• Preparation for Private Practice: A sharply targeted, down-to-earth course in entrepreneurship demystifies reimbursement procedures and provides a realistic plan for setting up and managing a finan­cially sound practice.
• Preparation for Licensure: Our rigorous curriculum in the sciences and chiropractic technique carefully prepares our graduates to sit for state and national licensure exams.
• Preparation for a Lifetime Career: D'Youville values the highest level of ethical responsibility. D'Youville's approach emphasizes the satisfaction of facilitating the healing of the whole person through a concerned nurturing of the mind, body and spirit. At the same time, our program prepares the practitioner for lifelong security and limitless opportunity for leadership in a growing profession.

Program Accreditation: The Chiropractic curriculum is designed to reflect the most current standards of the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE), the US Department of Education's recognized accrediting authority for the doctor of chiropractic programs. D'Youville's doctor of chiropractic program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the Council on Chiropractic Education.

To learn more about the college, its rolling admissions, tuition, and financial aid, or to take a campus tour or talk with chiro­practic faculty, please Request Information.