ICPA Diplomate Research Case Study

The Diplomate Research Case Study is your greatest contribution to the validation and efficacy of chiropractic care for children or pregnant women. It requires commitment and considerable time. Because of this we recommend you begin to select the case you want to work on early on and register for the Diplomate on-line forum as soon as possible to access our tutorials on writing a publishable Case Study.

Once you register to access the forum and have read these tutorials, please begin to submit discussion in the forum about your case and paper. In the forum, you have the opportunity for a personal interaction with a doctor who will offer suggestions, directions and advise in your writing.

Please note, in this forum, your paper will be considered for completion to gain credit towards Diplomate status only. It may be months after you have acquired Diplomate status that your paper will be selected for submission to a peer reviewed journal. At this point, you will be contacted by our Research Director, Dr. Joel Alcantara to fine tune and perhaps even elaborate on your case for submission. To register for the Research online forum for the Diplomate please go here:https://secure.icpa4kids.com/diplomate_registration_clinical_forum.htm

Please keep all records of before/ after ultrasounds, x-rays, scans, photos readily accessible for publication. We highly encourage photos of set-ups, adjusting, etc of the patient for future use. When utilizing photos of patients, please have our permission to publish forms filled out and filed for retrieval. It can be accessed here: http://www.icpa4kids.com/seminars/Diplomate_Photo_Release.htm

For Candidates seeking Diplomate status, it will be necessary for you to present your Research Case Study at our annual Graduation Ceremony weekend. (March 2008). Presentations are brief (approximately 10 minutes per) and our suggested format for presentation is on Power Point.

These presentations will be the spring board for our new peer reviewed journal, scheduled to launch in June of 2008.