Chiropractic clinical internships at Northwestern Health Sciences University begin early in the program’s curriculum. It is a hands-on learning experience that enhances students’ technical and patient care skills. How this internship program was developed was presented.
The clinical assessment strategies for chiropractic internships occurring within the campus and community-based clinic environments were discussed.
Clinical assessment is a systematic process used by mental health professionals to evaluate a patient's functioning in multiple areas. Construct-aligned scales are based on milestones that were set down by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in the United States. Construct-aligned scales have categories showing increasing independence and sophistication in the domain being assessed.