Renewing Chiropractic License

RENEWAL OF CHIROPRACTIC LICENSE IN CALIFORNIA (Last Update 3-October-2020)

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On January 11, 2022, the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs issuedDCA Waiver DCA-22-209 Order Extending DCA-20-63, Order Waiving Restrictions on Internet-Based Continuing Education Training for Chiropractors and Naturopathic Doctors. 

This order extends DCA Waiver DCA-20-63 through March 31, 2022, which allows licensees to complete their continuing education hours through distance learning, subject to the condition that distance learning in excess of 12 hours must consist of Internet- or web-based courses that allow participants to concurrently interact with instructors or presenters while they observe the courses. 

The Board of Chiropractic Examiners has referred to this format as Interactive Video Conference. Interactive Video Conference courses that have been approved by the Board and are taken on or before March 31, 2022, will be accepted and will count as classroom hours for licensees’ current renewal period. 

After this waiver terminates on March 31, 2022, the maximum number of continuing education (CE) hours that can be completed via distance learning (as defined in California Code of Regulations, title 16, section 363.1) will be reinstated to twelve (12) hours.  

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After June 2013, every DC must have earned twenty four (24) continuing education (CE) hours by your license renewal date, and you may complete up to a maximum twelve (12) of those twenty four (24) hours through distance learning as defined in Section 363.1. On or after June 8, 2013, licensees shall complete the following MANDATORY six (6) course hours. These 6 MANDATORY course hours may be via classroom or distance learning venues: 

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Minimum of two (2) hours in subdivision (g) (11) - Ethics and law: including but not limited to: truth in advertising; professional boundaries; mandatory reporting requirements for child abuse/neglect, elder abuse/neglect; spousal or cohabitant abuse/neglect; sexual boundaries between patient and doctors; review of the specific laws, rules and regulations related to the practice of chiropractic in the State of California,

Minimum of four (4) hours in any one of, or a combination of, the following three subject areas:

Subdivision (g) (3) History Taking and Physical Examination Procedures, instruction in various basic to comprehensive history taking and physical examination procedures, including but not limited to orthopedic, neurological and general diagnosis related to evaluation of the neuro-musculoskeletal systems, and includes general diagnosis and differential diagnosis of all conditions that affect the human body.

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Subdivision (g) (5) - Chiropractic Adjustive Techniques or Chiropractic Manipulation Techniques.

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Subdivision (g) (10) Proper and Ethical Billing and Coding - Instruction in proper and ethical billing and coding, including accurate and effective record keeping and documentation of evaluation, treatment and progress of a patient. This is not to include practice building or patient recruitment/retention or business techniques or principles that teach concepts to increase patient visits or patient fees per case.

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With the exception of the six (6) hours of mandatory courses referenced above, the remaining eighteen (18) hours may be in any of the subjects listed below in subdivision (g) (1-16), and you may complete up to a maximum twelve (12) hours through distance learning as defined in Section 363.1. Acceptable courses must be approved by either of the following:

1) The California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Workers Compensation.2) Any Healing Arts Board or Bureau within Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code or approved by any organization authorized to approve continuing education by any Healing Arts Board or Bureau in Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code.
*The continuing education providers and courses referenced here do not need to be approved by the CA State Board of Chiropractic Examiners for credit to be granted nor do they need to meet the requirements contained in Sections 362, 363, and 363.1.s*

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Subdivision (g) (1-16): Courses approved by the Board shall be limited to the following subject areas:
 
1. Philosophy of chiropractic, including the historical development of chiropractic as an art and science and health care approach; the vertebral subluxation complex and somato-visceral reflexes including their relationships between disease and health; and other chiropractic theory and philosophy.

2. Instruction in basic sciences of anatomy, histology, neurology, physiology, nutrition, pathology, biochemistry or toxicology.

3. Instruction in various basic to comprehensive history taking and physical examination procedures, including but not limited to orthopedic, neurological and general diagnosis related to evaluation of the neuro-musculoskeletal systems, and includes general diagnosis and differential diagnosis of all conditions that affect the human body.

4. Diagnostic testing procedures, interpretation and technologies that aid in differential diagnosis of all conditions that affect the human body.

5. Chiropractic adjustive techniques or chiropractic manipulation techniques.

6. Pain management theory, including, but not limited to, current trends in treatment and instruction in the physiology and anatomy of acute, sub-acute and chronic pain.

7. Physiotherapy.

8. Instruction in Manipulation Under Anesthesia including the safe handling of patients under anesthesia.

9. Instruction in the aspects of special population care, including, but not limited to, geriatric, pediatric, and athletic care as related to the practice of chiropractic.

10. Instruction in proper and ethical billing and coding, including accurate and effective record keeping and documentation of evaluation, treatment and progress of a patient. This is not to include practice building or patient recruitment/retention or business techniques or principles that teach concepts to increase patient visits or patient fees per case.

11. Ethics and law: including but not limited to: truth in advertising; professional boundaries; mandatory reporting requirements for child abuse/neglect, elder abuse/neglect; spousal or cohabitant abuse/neglect; sexual boundaries between patient and doctors; review of the specific laws, rules and regulations related to the practice of chiropractic in the State of California.

12. Adverse event avoidance, including reduction of potential malpractice issues.

13. Pharmacology, including side effects, drug interactions and the pharmodynamics of various commonly prescribed and over-the-counter drugs; drug reactions and interactions with herbs, vitamins and nutritional supplements; blood and urinalysis testing used in the diagnosis and detection of disease, including use of and interpretation of drug testing strips or kits utilizing urinalysis, saliva, hair and nail clippings.

14. A licensee may earn up to a maximum of two (2) hours of continuing education credit in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, basic life support or use of an automated external defibrillator.

15. Board Meeting: A licensee may earn a maximum of four (4) hours of continuing education credit per renewal period for attending a full board meeting that includes the hearing of cases related to petitioners seeking the reinstatement of revoked licenses or early termination of probationary licenses. A petitioner may not earn any continuing education hours for attending a board meeting on the same day in which said petitioner's hearing is conducted. The attendance of a licensee at a board meeting under this subparagraph shall be monitored and confirmed by board staff designated by the Executive Officer.

16. Any of the following as related to the practice of chiropractic:
A) Principles of practice.
B) Wellness. (prevention, health maintenance)
C) Rehabilitation.
D) Public health.

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