Here is how clinic selection works at NYCC...
[A quick tangent though: if you are early in the DC program at your chiropractic college or perhaps you are just a prospective applicant...perhaps you're wondering: Why should I care about clinic already? Well...you should. Your clinical internship experience will be a huge part of what shapes your chiropractic college education. You will be forced to apply your manual, communication, critical thinking and clinical skills in what is usually a year's duration...and a whirlwind of a year too. If researching chiro schools, or even evaluating your own, think about
- how the clinic selection process works
- the quality of clinicians available to mentor you...what do they specialize in?
- how much you will get challenged and be forced to grow?
- where are the clinical opportunities? special populations?
- patient flow...is it steady/consistent/sufficient?
These are typically things that applicants/early level students do not think about...and the information is not always easily available. Ask the right people and ask the right questions! Definitely worth it! Anyways...]
Clinic selection at NYCC works like this:
- Application which factors in your
- GPA
- geographic location (home and current), and
- special unique conditions (ie. if you have a spouse or own a home somewhere).
(Compare this to some other chiropractic colleges, which distribute student-interns based on a lottery/draft system)
Find out what clinical opportunities are available to you. NYCC is unique in that despite whatever clinic location you end up at (Depew, Seneca Falls or Levittown), each offers a set of rotation sites where you treat off site. This includes treating a sites that may include university-college aged athletes, geratric population, long term care centers or even hospitals. Not all chiropractic colleges offer this uniqut opportunity but no matter where you are, seek every available opportunity to treat patients and learn as much as you can!
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