After Graduation, chiropractors must complete annual Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements in order to maintain their registration with the General Chiropractic Council (GCC). They may also choose to pursue their particular interests by completing postgraduate Masters level programmes. The College offers programmes in Chiropractic Paediatrics and Chiropractic for Animals.
Current requirements are that all Chiropractors must complete 30 hours of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) between September and August each year.
CPD Seminars
The College is pleased to offer a small selection of CPD seminars which are detailed below. All seminars take place at the College, unless stated otherwise.
For further details on any of the seminars below and to register, please contact
Catherine Coombes at mccseminars@mctimoney-college.ac.uk.
You may also download a Booking Form here: MCC Seminars Booking & Payment form.
2020
“Better Practice Through………………………”
…………………… Food for Performance & Fitness / Feeding Stress – Saturday 4 April 2020
**POSTPONED – NEW DATE TO BE ADVISED**
with Gaye Godkin
With a Master’s in Public Health in Nutrition, Gaye is a consultant nutritionist who engages with a professional audience to provide scientifically relevant, evidence- based and practice-focused specialist nutrition advice.
This 2-part seminar will focus on:
Food for Performance & Fitness
– Food choices to sustain a constant supply of energy
– How to improve your food choices
– Are supplements a waste of money?
– Gut health
– Damage caused to the body by over-eating
………and more!
Feeding Stress
– What is stress?
– What are my triggers?
– How do I respond?
– Stress and the immune system
– Weight issues and stress
– Stress and heart health
…………and more!
……..Functional Chiropractic Nutrition
Sat 6 & Sun 7 June
**POSTPONED – NEW DATE TO BE ADVISED**
with Robert Silverman, Chiropractor, Clinical Nutritionist, International speaker, and Author of Amazon’s #1 bestseller, “Inside-Out Health”
Functional nutrition is the foundation of integrative chiropractic. The complex, chronic health issues of the twenty-first century need a holistic nutritional approach that looks at genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors and provides a systems-based framework for treatment. Functional nutrition is particularly helpful for improving patient outcomes in diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, chronic fatigue, neurodegeneration, bone health, cardiac health, and musculoskeletal wellbeing.
- Use breakthrough Functional Nutrition therapies to resolve inflammation
- Use nutritional strategies to manage musculoskeletal injuries
- Connect gut/immune system to the brain for better management of concussions
- Integrate simple tools to probe beyond diagnosis and treat root causes effectively
…………….Obtaining a Qualification in First Aid
with Steven Bruce from the Academy of Physical Medicine
Sunday 2 August 2020 *POSTPONED – NEW DATE TO BE ADVISED*
Sunday 15 November 2020 TBC
- Specifically tailored to clinicians
- HSE Recognised Qualification – valid for 3 years
- Includes monthly first aid reminders throughout the 3-year validity of the qualification to prevent skill-fade
Taught by instructors with experience of emergency situations, every part of this course is designed with real-world situations in mind. Uses practical and scenario-based training to ensure it is relevant to your practice.
Get your qualification up to date and keep abreast of the changes that take place in first aid year on year.
THIS COURSE IS ESSENTIAL FOR ALL CLINICIANS!
PAEDIATRIC SEMINARSwith Kirstin Shearar
If you treat children in your practice, these seminars are a MUST!
Adjusting The Child from Infancy to Adolescence – Date to be confirmed – register your interest at mccseminars@mctimoney-college.ac.uk
The Adjusting the Child seminar will teach you how to:
- Perform a precise subluxation assessment on children from birth to adolescence, which is driven by the demonstration of neuropathology, biomechanical deficit and compensation response.
- An exacting, evidence based and clinically reproducible system of subluxation assessment.
Comprehensive notes are included in the fee which eliminates the need for detailed note taking and means you can concentrate on what is being said and learn more during your time with Kirstin.
This seminar is open to all Chiropractors as an adjunct to the MSc Chiropractic (Paediatrics) programme awarded by BPP University and delivered by the McTimoney College of Chiropractic.
Examining The Child – Developing Clinical Excellence – Date to be confirmed – register your interest at mccseminars@mctimoney-college.ac.uk
Basic Course Outline:
- The clinical history
- Medicolegal considerations in paediatrics
- General surveillance assessment
- Developmental assessment
- The head and neck region
- The chest
- Cardiovascular assessment
- Respiratory assessment
- The abdomen
- Clinical case studies
Comprehensive notes are included in the fee which eliminates the need for detailed note taking and means you can concentrate on what is being said and learn more during your time with Kirstin.
This seminar is open to all Chiropractors as an adjunct to the MSc Chiropractic (Paediatrics) programme awarded by BPP University and delivered by the McTimoney College of Chiropractic.
For further details on any of the above seminars and to register, please contact Catherine Coombes at mccseminars@mctimoney-college.ac.uk. You may also download a Booking Form here: MCC Seminars Booking & Payment form.
