Continuing Competency

December 2005

Chiropractic Board – policy on professional development

The Chiropractic Board believes that the responsibility for the professional development of each member of the profession is the responsibility of individual chiropractors.

The Board believes that individual chiropractors, working within the framework of the Board’s Competency-Based Professional Standards for Chiropractors document, should address their own professional development needs.

At the completion of each year chiropractors will be asked to self-certify their professional development for the previous year, in the knowledge that they may be subject to audit of that certification at any time.

An audit of a chiropractor's self-certification will be undertaken  when:

1. the competence of the chiropractor is brought to the attention of the Board by agencies such as the Health & Disability Commissioner, the Ministry of Health or ACC; or

2. the Board decides that a review is required.

To assist chiropractors to undertake appropriate professional development programmes, the Board intends to work with the NZ Chiropractors Association to identify, develop, promote and fund suitable programmes.