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A profession can specify what a graduate must know. It cannot specify who they happen to meet, which practice they happen to see, or whether anyone asks them the hard question before they enroll. These three are for that.
For a student spending time in a practice
Ten domains to look at, and room to write what you saw. Forms, flow, communication, the adjustment, how people arrive, the business model, what gets measured, team, roles, meetings.
It is a record, not a recommendation. One copy stays with the student. One copy goes back to the doctor who hosted them — which, for most chiropractors, is the first outside account of their own practice they have ever received.
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What happens in the ninety seconds before the doctor walks in?
For a student talking to someone further along
Sixteen questions to pick six from, three rules for asking them, and a consent script to read at the end. Works on a practicing chiropractor, and works just as well on a second-year.
Almost nobody has ever asked these people what they know. An interview request from a student is one of the few asks in this profession that costs the person nothing and gives them something.
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If you could change one thing about how people enter this profession, what would it be?
For anyone deciding whether to enter
Fifteen questions to answer honestly, including the arithmetic and the two conversations most people skip. Nothing is submitted anywhere. Nobody sees it but the person answering.
In most health professions someone else decides whether you get in. Here, almost nobody will stop you — which is exactly why the decision has to be made carefully, and made first.
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Talk to someone who left this profession. Ask them what they'd tell someone standing where you are.
If you run a student chapter, teach in a program, advise pre-health students, or lead a practice — take these and use them. Put your institution's name in the slot. Change the questions if yours are better.
No permission needed, no attribution required, no account, no email address. If you improve one, tell us and it goes into the next version.
We'll also make an introduction if a student needs someone to observe or interview. That part is the only thing we do that you can't do without us.