Expanding EBCP and Research Across the Palmer College of Chiropractic

描述（由申请人提供）：2007年，帕尔默按摩学院获得了NCCAM/NIH颁发的CAM从业者研究教育项目资助伙伴奖，“在帕尔默按摩学院扩展EBCP和研究”。在过去的四年里，帕尔默管理人员，教师和研究人员通过我们与爱荷华大学和托马斯杰斐逊大学这两所备受推崇的传统机构的牢固伙伴关系，努力工作，成功地将研究和循证临床实践（EBCP）概念以一种既有意义又可持续的方式融入帕尔默的文化和课程。当前的应用程序是响应PAR-08-095请求额外四年的支持来继续并进一步扩展这项重要工作而开发的。帕尔默是世界上最大的脊椎按摩培训机构。我们在达文波特，IA，圣何塞，CA和奥兰治港设有校区，我们有200多名教师，总学生人数超过2100人。超过25%的执业脊医是帕尔默校友。因此，帕尔默学院处于一个独特的位置，对该机构的教育和文化产生重大影响，并最终对脊椎指压治疗这一更广泛的职业产生影响。师资队伍的发展仍然是我们计划成功的第一步。提高教师的态度、知识、技能和教学行为是提高教学效果的关键

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In 2007, Palmer College of Chiropractic received the CAM Practitioner Research Education Project Grant Partnership award, "Expanding EBCP and Research Across the Palmer College of Chiropractic" from NCCAM/NIH. Over the past four years, Palmer administrators, faculty and researchers have worked diligently through our strong partnerships with two highly regarded conventional institutions, The University of Iowa and Thomas Jefferson University, to successfully incorporate research and evidence-based clinical practice (EBCP) concepts into the culture and curriculum at Palmer in a manner that is both meaningful and sustainable. The current application was developed in response to PAR-08-095 to request four additional years of support to continue and further expand upon this important work. Palmer is the largest chiropractic training institution in the world. With campuses in Davenport, IA, San Jose, CA, and Port Orange, FL, we have more than 200 faculty, with total student enrollment over 2100. More than 25% of practicing chiropractors are Palmer alumni. Thus, Palmer College is in a unique position to have both a significant impact on the education and culture of the institution, and ultimately, the wider profession of chiropractic. Faculty development remains the essential first step to the success of our proposed program. Enhancing the attitudes, knowledge, skills and teaching behavior of faculty is the key to effective delivery of these concepts to students, and is a direct way of influencing the Palmer educational culture. Successful completion of the aims outlined in this application will result in an ongoing, sustainable faculty development program that engages and supports faculty in real curricular change. Weaving EBCP concepts and practices throughout the curriculum and clinical rotation experience will prepare graduates to consider EBCP as integral to successful chiropractic practice and ultimately enhance patient outcomes. We will further enhance the integration of EBCP and research content into the Doctor of Chiropractic curriculum at our main campus and extend our program to our two branch campuses: the West campus in San Jose, CA and the Florida campus in Port Orange, FL. Faculty development remains the essential first step to the success of our program. Enhancing the attitudes, knowledge, skills and teaching behavior of faculty is the key to effective delivery of these concepts to students, and is a direct way of influencing the Palmer educational culture. Our faculty development initiative will expand implementation of our program to train faculty in EBCP principles, expand training of faculty to incorporate EBCP principles and application into classroom education, initiate a program to apply and model EBCP behavior in clinical practice and training, and develop a cadre of EBCP educators at each campus. We will integrate EBCP into the Palmer College curriculum through a variety of inter-related strategies: stand-alone information literacy and EBCP courses, effectively weaving EBCP through other courses in each term, supplementary e-learning opportunities, practice through reflective learning, co-curricular activities, and EBCP application in the clinical internship. Our research training initiative will provide mechanisms for interested faculty and students to participate in research, gain proficiency in research and publish. Our dissemination plan will communicate our strategies and experiences in developing and implementing these EBCP faculty development, curricular change and assessment initiatives. We will also communicate the changes in student and faculty attitudes, knowledge, skills and behaviors that we are measuring through program evaluation. This program will result in change to both institutional culture and behavior regarding the value of research and the utility of EBCP at all three Palmer campuses.