Quarter 8

The clinical internship course series provides students with increasing opportunities to apply, integrate, and refine the knowledge, skills and behaviors necessary to become confident, competent, and caring primary care chiropractic physicians. Occurring within a clinic setting, interns incorporate evidence-informed clinical reasoning in applying effective health care procedures and professional integrity in the delivery of patient-centered care. Interns are mentored and supervised by attending physicians who facilitate patient care and clinical education while ensuring quality patient care. At this early point in the clinical internship course series, interns are closely supervised by attending physicians and limited to active involvement in less complicated cases. As apart of clinical internship I, students participate in the clinic entrance assessment (CEA), an evaluation which provides supervising clinicians the opportunity to evaluate their respective interns’ clinical skills, identify their individual strengths and weaknesses, and determine their readiness to engage in patient care.