California Code of Regulations › Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations › Division 4 - State Board of Chiropractic Examiners › Article 4 - Approved Schools and Qualifications of Applicants › Section 331.13 - Physical Facilities

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
				General: Each school shall own, or enjoy the assured use of a physical plant
				large enough to accommodate classrooms, lecture rooms, laboratories, a clinic,
				a library and administrative and faculty offices. Each school shall meet and
				maintain the standards and requirements established by or under the authority
				of the laws of the State of California governing educational institutions and
				all applicable city and county ordinances wherein the school is located and
				shall maintain competent evidence of such compliance, for examination by the
				Board.
(b) Administrative Offices:
				The administrative offices shall provide adequate office space for faculty
				members.
There shall be space available for faculty
				  conferences.
All furnishings shall be serviceable and functional and there
				  shall be sufficient office equipment, subject to Board approval, to efficiently
				  manage the business of the school.
There shall be fireproof storage for all records and
				  documents required by the Chiropractic Initiative Act, statute, or
				  regulations.
All administrative offices shall meet the standards and
				  requirements incorporated by subparagraph (a) above.
(c) Classrooms: There shall be sufficient
				number and size of classrooms to separately accommodate the graded classes in
				1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year classes. No two or more subjects shall be taught in
				the same classroom simultaneously. No two or more student classes (1st, 2nd,
				3rd and 4th year) shall be taught in the same classroom simultaneously.
				Classrooms shall be located where there is quiet and freedom from interruption
				and distraction.
All classrooms shall be furnished with audio-visual aids
				  appropriate to the subject matter being taught, and desks and chairs or tablet
				  armchairs. There shall be effective shades to darken rooms equipped with visual
				  projection apparatus.
All classrooms shall meet the standards and requirements
				  incorporated by subparagraph (a) above.
(d) Laboratories: Laboratories shall be well
				lighted and ventilated and shall be equipped for the practical work in human
				dissection, histology, chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, pathology,
				laboratory diagnosis, roentgenology, physiotherapy and chiropractic technique.
Anatomy and pathology laboratories shall contain standard
				  equipment. No more than ten (10) students shall be assigned per table. Sinks
				  should be equipped with wrist action or foot pedal valves, and supplied in a
				  sufficient number. Human cadavers and specimens for individual and small group
				  demonstrations shall be supplied. If human cadavers are not available, or state
				  law prohibits their use, schools must obtain prior written approval from this
				  Board.
Microscopic laboratories shall have one microscope and one
				  desk light for each two (2) students in the class.
Chiropractic technique laboratories shall be equipped with
				  one chiropractic adjusting table for every four (4) students in the
				  class.
Actual student experience with X-ray phantom or equivalent
				  for all areas of the body shall be necessary.
Additionally, all laboratories shall meet the standards and
				  requirements incorporated in subparagraph (a) above.
(f) Teaching Aids and Equipment: For the
				subject of physiotherapy there shall be sufficient generally recognized
				equipment for classroom and clinic purposes (to include sine galvanic,
				ultrasound, diathermy, ultraviolet, heat, cold, percussion, and transaction).
				For the practical work and physical diagnosis students shall be required to own
				the ordinary and usual diagnostic instruments, including, but not limited to,
				thermometers, stethoscopes, sphygmomanometers, oto-ophthalmoscope examination
				sets, and orthopedic-neurological examination instruments. Each school shall
				own and teach the use of the current standard diagnostic instruments and a list
				of same shall be made available to the Board upon request. For classroom
				demonstration and visual education aids, each school shall own charts,
				mannequins, skeletons, bone collections, anatomical and embryological models,
				stereopticons, balopticons, micro-projections, and video players or similar
				projection equipment. The film and slide library shall be constantly augmented
				by the addition of new material.
(g) Library: A library shall be provided for
				the use of the student body. The minimum requirements for a library are:
(1) Operation of the library shall be under
				the direct supervision of a full-time librarian holding a degree in library
				science.
(2) The library shall be
				open to students a minimum of eight (8) hours per day. It shall have room
				available for study purposes to accommodate at least ten (10) percent of the
				enrolled students at one time. Hours shall be posted.
(3) The library volumes shall be cataloged,
				using a generally accepted system.
(4) The library shall consist of a minimum of
				5,000 volumes of which 2,000 shall be less than ten years of age. Only
				cataloged scientific volumes which are of interest to the published curriculum
				of the school can be counted as library volumes. Unbound journals and
				periodicals shall not be counted in determining compliance with this
				rule.
(5) Each school shall conduct
				a program of student orientation as to the use of the library and class
				assignments involving the use of the library.