Scholarship winner copes with
contradictions in profession
It isn't easy for any chiropractor -- even one who's been in practice for many years --
to deal with the blatant contradictions we see in the profession today. How much more
difficult those incongruities are for students trying to maintain their sense of purpose!
Fortunately, many chiropractic students manage to look inside themselves and find the
strength and commitment to cope with this problem. Pauline So, of Parker College of
Chiropractic, is one of them and her essay on "What a "What being a chiropractor
means to me," (reprinted in this issue) earned her a
"Total Solution" scholarship.
As part of the World Chiropractic Alliance's outreach to chiropractic students, dozens
of students have received free tuition to the famed "Total Solution" program.
The scholarship covers all registration fees, room and board, and study materials.
Licensed doctors who attend the program pay $8,700 for the program and, in addition,
receive the Insight 7000 Subluxation Station equipment.
The "Total Solution" program was developed by Drs. Christopher Kent and
Patrick Gentempo, who put an emphasis on practical, realistic information and dedication
to subluxation-based chiropractic.
The "Total Solution" experience has been described as a four-day "boot
camp" designed to both challenge and transform chiropractors.
Groups of 70 D.C.s are taken to a 6,000-acre ranch in the Colorado Rockies for intense
training. The changes they undergo are profound.
"The strategies and positioning of the average chiropractic practice must change,
and that starts with the chiropractor," Dr. Gentempo explained. "This will take
a behavioral change, so logically, trying to teach these strategies in a traditional
week-end seminar in a hotel format wouldn't work."
The WCA scholarship program is more than a way to provide this valuable training to
students, however.
"I also want students to know that we respect them and understand the difficulties
they face," stated Terry A. Rondberg, D.C., president of WCA. "They are our
future and we care about them and their education."
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