Community-Based Clinical Education (CBCE) is a distributed model of teaching and learning where students gain real-world, diverse, and rigorous clinical experiences. With a distributed network, students can engage in clinical immersions in many different health systems and geographic regions.

CBCE is an umbrella term, encompassing community-based internships (CBI), preceptorships, clerkships (e.g., within the Veteran’s Administration, or VA), and all other forms of external practice-based learning available to qualified senior chiropractic interns.

The Doctor of Chiropractic Program (DCP) is a twelve (12) academic quarter program. Starting in quarter 10, qualified senior chiropractic interns can begin their community-based placement. Prior to this experience, senior interns have completed at least two academic quarters in DCP-managed sites.

Learn more by reading the Community-Based Clinical Education Manual