Last week, AECC University College held its 2023 Future Pathways Event at their Parkwood Campus in Bournemouth. The event provided AECC’s Chiropractic students with the opportunity to meet and talk to chiropractors and clinicians from a range of practices about their plans for the future and potential work opportunities. BCA President and Vice President, Catherine Quinn and Tim Button, attended the event and delivered a specialist Sports Chiropractic workshop to the students. Among the sessions that students had the opportunity to attend were also an MSK Diagnostic Ultrasound session with Jane Cook and a specialist session on Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) and Balance Disorders with Karen Dewhurst.
Thank you to the AECC Staff for making us feel welcome as ever at the Future Pathways event. Students were able to see the wide array of opportunities that a Master’s Degree in Chiropractic can open for them, and I’m sure we’ll see these students as part leading the profession in the future, be that in an area of special interest, research, academia or policy“.
Catherine and Tim were pleased to catch up with the Secretary General of the World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC), Richard Brown, who opened the day’s proceedings with his talk, The World is Your Oyster! Richard has just returned from the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) 152nd Executive Board Meeting in Geneva, where he represented the WFC as a non-state actor in official relations.
Richard advocated for a draft resolution on rehabilitation in meetings with representatives of the UN Permanent Missions of Israel, Brazil, Croatia, Rwanda, Slovakia and the USA. On behalf of the group, which included Cochrane, Handicap International (now Humanity & Inclusion), International Society for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, World Federation of Occupational Therapists, World Physiotherapy and others, Richard presented a joint statement before the WHO Executive Board and Member States supporting strengthening rehabilitation in health systems. Support for the resolution was unanimous, which means it will now be considered at the World Health Assembly taking place in May.
Speaking after the event, Dr Brown said, “Chiropractors have a critical role to play in the delivery of rehabilitation services. With low back pain alone being the largest single cause of disability on the planet, there is a need to ensure that chiropractors take a proactive role in optimising functioning of people in their communities.”
This week we wrote to all chiropractic universities about our 2023 financial donation for graduation prizes or professional support (for those institutions that do not have a graduation class just yet) and we are delighted to support students throughout their educational careers and in the transition from student to a practising chiropractor with confidence. We do this through our events, resources and communication with student members and the UK chiropractic universities. One other part of this support is that the BCA offers each institution money to spend on professional development of students and for those institutions with graduating classes, we provide graduation prizes that reflect the values of the BCA.
