Master of Chiropractic including Foundation Year

This module introduces the student to all aspects of professionalism in chiropractic, encompassing interpersonal communication techniques in the healthcare environment, personal and professional development and contemporary issues in the profession of chiropractic.

This module introduces students to the key anatomical structures, both musculoskeletal and body systems, in order to apply clinical reasoning to hands-on examination.

Foundation Biophysics introduces a wide variety of mathematical and physical-sciences topics and contextualises them within life sciences, clinical sciences and ultimately, chiropractic.

This module provides good foundational knowledge on a range of topics relating to biological sciences, from genetics and evolution to immunology and ecology. It has a substantial practical element, providing experience on a wide range of scientific techniques.

Students are introduced to an overview of the 11 physiological human systems to form the basis of their functional clinical knowledge.

Learn the initial framework of musculoskeletal clinical assessment and get to grips with orthopaedic, manual therapy and exercise rehabilitation techniques.

Understand anatomical structures and systems and their clinical importance, and develop skills in muscle testing, deep tendon reflexes, dermatomes, and myotome assessment.

Develop knowledge of fundamental mechanical principles and material science theory, enabling you to solve biomechanical problems around kinetics and kinematics.

Learn how to identify normal anatomical features and interpret findings on plain film radiographs. Get a grounding in current legislation and safety principles around radiography.

Examine the eleven physiological human systems, understanding their role in homeostasis, with an introduction to disorders and disease.

Build the neuroanatomical knowledge required for neurological examination, including aetiology, disease mechanisms and diagnostic criteria.

Explore repair mechanisms and disease processes, recognising conditions based on the associated presentation of symptoms within a clinical setting.

Apply public health principles to chiropractic practice and explore wider health issues and motivations for change concerning health behaviours.

Develop your competence in the fundamental chiropractic skills of spinal manipulative therapy techniques, stretching and massage, and build your knowledge of exercise rehabilitation.

Extend your ability to read clinical images, including X-rays, MRI, CT and ultrasound scans, to recognise pathological states relevant to chiropractic.

Broaden your knowledge base of all human physiological systems by identifying and understanding a variety of physiological adaptations, disorders and diseases.

Develop the critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills required to implement evidence into practice, considering concepts such as cognitive bias and statistical analysis.

Understand the role of Primary Healthcare Practitioner (Chiropractor) within the Welsh Institute of Chiropractic environment and the General Chiropractic Council's (GCC) Code.

Develop your ability to identify and differentiate conditions commonly encountered in chiropractic practice through physical examinations of body systems and lab test findings.

Develop and refine a complex range of basic and advanced manual and rehabilitation skills and learn how to create evidence-based chiropractic treatment plans.

Learn how to perform a neurological and/or orthopaedic examination of the body and interpret the outcome to make decisions about diagnoses, management and referral.

Deepen your understanding of evidence-based practice and learn how to communicate chiropractic research in a way patients can understand.

Complete a full research project involving ethics procedures, participant recruitment and statistical analysis, with the potential for work to be published in academic journals.

Advance your knowledge of key chiropractic principles through detailed reviews of complex procedures, problems, case studies and research.

Develop the professional requirements of the Code of Practice and learn what it takes to establish a private practice, including business, audit and entrepreneurial skills.

Demonstrate your professional readiness to become a fully qualified chiropractic practitioner as you diagnose and treat patients within our supervised outpatient clinic.