Guidelines for DCs in Chiro school for hiring MTs?

[Brian A]

Just wondering...

I know that we take some business/ethics in our training programs.

I'm sure that DCs must, too.

I sometimes wonder what they teach DCs in the schools regarding how to establish a relationship with an MT.

Anyone have a good relationship with a DC who might want to ask?

 

[Pompal 09.]

Guidelines for DCs in Chiro school for hiring MTs?

Just wondering...

I know that we take some business/ethics in our training programs.

I'm sure that DCs must, too.

I sometimes wonder what they teach DCs in the schools regarding how to establish a relationship with an MT.

Anyone have a good relationship with a DC who might want to ask?

I can tell you straight up, there aren't any classes like this at the chiro college I am intimately familiar with, unless things have changed recently. Business class was always about writing a loan proposal and insurance stuff. It is not many credit hours (again, unless things have changed) and no one is really worried about dealing with MT's at all. That kind of thing comes more from Practice Management companies outside of schooling or just general chit-chat amongst colleagues.

Colleagues usually equal friends from school (usually your class), because of the "eat their young" aspect to chiropractic - which, normally does not provide for helping young doctors.

Students are working on so much other stuff in school that this kind of class, though it should not be meaningless, basically is... just busy work.

By the time they have that class in the curriculum they are studying for thier third battery of national board exams and trying to pass Bone Pathology (along with a host of other big ticket classes) --- or they have just gotten into Clinic and are trying to deal with getting patients in and credits completed to graduate in the next two/three trimesters.

So, basically, no one every really talks about this type of thing.

Hate to say it, but MT's just aren't the subject matter in the chiropractic college I am affiliated with (again, unless things changed underneath me and I missed it).

Hope that helps.

 

[church]

The chiropractors I have a relationship with went to school at National University of Health Sciences in Lombard, IL, where they worked directly with massage therapy students. They have great respect for massage therapists, refer to me (and I refer to them) and are cheering me on in my business. We were new in town together. They display my brochures, let me place coupons/ads in their office, and are generally great to work with.

So, it just depends on the school!

 

[Darumu J]

Two chiropractors I get along really great with have both been graduates of Northwestern College of Chiropractic in MN. However, it also has a MT program.
Although I did have one chiro who attended Palmer Chiropractic College in Davenport, IA refer to me... I've known several others who went to the same school and don't really respect our work at all.
Sure I think the school matters, I also think it depends an awful lot on the individual practitioner.
And although I believe that DCs have a bit of Ethics training in school... I am not so sure they have an Ethics requirement as part of CEUs as we do.
Though honestly, I've known a couple MTs in my town have gotten into trouble and lost their licenses. So, I sort of think if MT requires CE for Ethics, Chiros definitely should have it too!