From chiropractor to specialist chiropractor
24 of the 71 essential skills of a specialist chiropractor are already essential for a chiropractor — about 34% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from chiropractor in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 24
- skills carry over
- 47
- would be new
- 34%
- of the target job covered
- 71
- essential skills of a specialist chiropractor
What a specialist chiropractor does
Specialist chiropractors have an advanced knowledge and understanding in a specific chiropractic area, acquiring complex decision making skills and clinical competency within the scope of the chiropractic profession. Specialist chiropractors may have undertaken an advanced course of studies to acquire the necessary skills and competency and qualification. Specialist chiropractors may be found in different specific fields such as education, functional neurology, orthopaedics, paediatrics, research, radiology, sport.
What carries over
24 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply clinical chiropractic competencies in sport
- apply context specific clinical competences
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- conduct chiropractic examination
- develop therapeutic relationships
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- formulate a treatment plan
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- interact with healthcare users
- interpret medical results
- manage chiropractic staff
- medical informatics
- neuroanatomy
- neurology
- orthopaedics
- prescribe healthcare products
- provide chiropractic diagnosis
- provide clinical chiropractic neurology
- provide information on chiropractic treatment outcomes
- rehabilitation
What would be new
47 skillsEssential for a specialist chiropractor and not for a chiropractor. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to health well-being and safety
- advocate health
- apply organisational techniques
- biomechanics
- collect healthcare user's general data
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- conduct health related research
- contribute to continuity of health care
- contribute to the rehabilitation process
- create solutions to problems
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- develop plans related to client discharge
- develop plans related to the transfer of care
- educate on the prevention of illness
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
- first aid
- follow clinical guidelines
- general medicine
- geriatrics
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- manage clinical risk
- manage healthcare staff
- manage healthcare users' data
- measure effectiveness of the service provided
- microbiology-bacteriology
- obstetrics and gynaecology
- paediatrics
- pharmacology
- promote health and safety policies in health services
- promote inclusion
- provide chiropractic maternal healthcare
- provide chiropractic paediatric healthcare
- provide health education
- provide learning support in healthcare
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychology
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- refer healthcare users
and 7 more
Other moves from chiropractor
2 roles- physiotherapist17 skills in common
- occupational therapist14 skills in common
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How far are you from being a specialist chiropractor?
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