Illinois Administrative Code › Title 68 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Part 1285 - MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT OF 1987 › Subpart A - MEDICAL LICENSING, RENEWAL AND RESTORATION PROCEDURE › Section 1285.30 - Programs of Chiropractic Education

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) A program of chiropractic education shall
				be deemed approved in the judgment of the Division if it meets the following
				requirements:
1) a Dean or other Executive
				Officer, employed on a full-time basis supervises the students and
				curriculum.
2) the faculty is
				comprised of graduates in their specialty from legally recognized and
				authorized professional colleges or institutions by the jurisdiction in which
				the college is located.
3) the
				faculty is organized and each department has a director and professors, each
				responsible to the director for instruction in the particular subjects he or
				she teaches.
4) annually, a
				catalogue or brochure is published setting forth the requisites for admission
				to the college, tuition, rates, courses offered, dates of sessions, schedule of
				classes, requirements for graduation, a roster of the undergraduate students
				and a roster of the last graduating class. The catalogue or brochure shall
				contain a list of the departments of the school, the titles of the personnel
				and a brief summary of each person's qualifications. The curriculum shall
				include, but not be limited to, 4 academic years' instruction in the following
				subjects:
A) Anatomy
i) Embryology
ii) Histology
iii) Neuro-anatomy
B) Physiology and Chemistry
C) Pathology and Bacteriology
D) Diagnosis
i) Physical
ii) Differential
iii) Laboratory
5) buildings provided with
				laboratories equipped for instruction in anatomy, chemistry, physiology,
				bacteriology and other areas of learning necessary to the due course of study
				prescribed by this Part; and that a laboratory equipped with supplies, models,
				mannequins, charts, stereopticon, roentgen-ray and other special apparatus used
				in teaching the system to treat human ailments without the use of medicine and
				operative surgery, be provided.
6)
				a library, accessible to students is maintained, with a librarian in constant
				attendance. The library shall contain a standard medical dictionary, texts and
				reference books, and the files of professional periodicals.
7) the college or institution requires all
				students to furnish, before matriculation, satisfactory proof of the
				preliminary education required by the Act.
8) full and complete records are kept showing
				the credentials for admission, attendance, grades and financial accounts of
				each student.
9) admission of
				transfer students will be limited to honorably dismissed students from another
				approved college or institution teaching the same system. The transcript of
				record obtained directly from the transferring school shall be kept on file. It
				shall be the duty of a college or institution to furnish such a transcript for
				the benefit of each student subject to honorable dismissal. No credit shall be
				given a transferred student for final or "senior year" work or for any courses
				taken by correspondence.
10)
				students shall start class attendance within one week after the start of each
				session. Credit for completion of a course will not be granted a student who
				failed to attend 80% of the complete session of the course.