Cleveland Chiropractic CollegeKansas City

Here at Cleveland, like the majority of chiropractic colleges, students attend school year round. The ‘trimester’ schedule is used to promote an efficient four year graduation plan.Students do receive two weeks off three times per year, and also a one week spring break.

Although students don’t get a ‘summer vacation,' the Cleveland staff does put on some fun activities for students during the year. Last week was the Welcome Back Barbeque, which was hosted on campus.  Students had a great time catching up with friends and enjoying some good food. Photos have been uploaded to the Cleveland Facebook ...

It's that time of year again! Time to apply for a Campus Ambassador position!

I can't believe that I've been a CA for almost a year! It seems like I just started. Being a Campus Ambassador has been such a blessing but it has come with a few challenges as well.

Even though I don't mind public speaking I still get really nervous before each event. But when each event is over I always feel that I have overcome my fears and that not only makes me a better person, but helps me to be a ...

Although my class schedule may seem light compared to previous trimesters, I am busier than ever at the Helth Center. Each new patient needs a physical and that may take up to four hours depending on how many complaints they have. But, overall, I like the challenge of trying to figure out what’s going on with patients. The most exciting part is correlating their symptoms to a finding on a film. I like educating patients in regards to what I think is going on and how chiropractic care can help improve their condition. 

My goal this trimester is to ...

In education, we have a weird way of gauging time... I know summer doesn't officially start for a long time, but in a couple days we start our Summer 2012 trimester, so in my mind, it's summer. Plus, the 80° temperatures, humidity, all the flowers, green, etc say "summer!" so it has to be summer, right? 

I've been terribly amiss in my regular blogging and for that I apologize. I've had a crazy couple of months. Spring is a time of lots of postgraduate teaching out of town on weekends for me. Since the beginning of ...

Yesterday I had a bout of deja vu as I jumped into the driver’s seat of Geoff and Sophie’s jeep. Well I jumped in the driver’s seat, but it was on the passengers’ side -- or at least that is how it appeared to me. Funny how you can just flip sides and everything seems completely different …

I know how to drive … just opposite the way it’s done here. By the end of my short drive, I was feeling more comfortable with my motor vehicle operation. By the last turn I even flipped on the turn signal ...

My first week at the Mahalapye Hospital has flown by, completely immersed in a whole new world, one that is to be my own for the next seven weeks. It’s a bit overwhelming. I am learning to take it slow, getting to know the hospital’s departments, staff, and protocols/paperwork. These are quite different than the electronic medical records we used at Walter Reed. Patients now bring me a colored paper or papers, sometimes bound into a homemade book. These papers hold their medical history information and the system works as follows: If the patient is to see ...

After working so hard, we all deserve to have a little break from school. A lot of my friends are traveling during the break.  I’m not planning on doing any traveling during the first half of my break. I’m going to spend that time here and treat a couple patients at the outpatient clinic. Not only will I treat patients, but I also have a few outpatient physicals. 

During the second half of my break, I plan to go back home. I cannot believe that I have not been home since January. Whenever I go back, I usually ...

This trimester has been incredibly busy and my blogging has suffered for it! I just got back from a trip to Eureka, Calif., teaching for the California Chiropractic Association. Always a great bunch of docs, but getting in and out of there was tough! A four hour drive through the mountains (treacherous the first time I did it, in the pitch dark, but BEAUTIFUL on Sunday during the day!) was followed by sitting for four hours in an empty regional airport, then red eye flights back to Kansas City. Didn't get back until 10:30 in the morning on ...

I went to my first community health event this past weekend and I really enjoyed it. Cleveland Chiropractic College had a table and it was full of interns from the college (most of them were in my class). I went there not really knowing what to expect. While I was at the event, I was amazed at how many individuals were willing to stop by the table and learn more about chiropractic. I met a few individuals who were tired of taking their medication because all their medication did was take their symptoms away for a short period of time ...

Finals...I kinda feel like the Jaw's theme song should be playing as I write this. But, in all seriousness finals aren't really that bad. For me, it's mostly the nerves before I take my final that are the problem.

The best thing about finals is that after you are finished you get to go on break! I haven't yet decided what I'm going to do with all my free time. But the fact that it will be spent outside a classroom is very exctiting. Just got to push a little bit more and I ...