Course Description:

cervical and thoracic spines, utilizing the same teaching format as Part A and also begins with a comprehensive online session, followed by a three-day live course.

Course Outline includes:

Pathophysiology and biomechanics of the cervical spine
Subjective / objective assessment
Review and treatment of the three syndromes
Cervical headache and trauma ('whiplash')
Complications, contraindications and outcome predictors
Thoracic spine: anatomy, pathology, examination and treatment
Patient demonstration, analysis and discussion

The fully online delivery format is designed to provide high quality learning with the flexibility of considerable work that can be managed on your time. However, it is a fully participatory course with mandatory assignments throughout the five weeks that includes the following SEQUENTIAL components:
1)   A Prerequisite Online Component (asynchronous – on your own time – due Wednesday before course start date);
2)   Schoology Faculty-Guided Online Component (with both synchronous and asynchronous sessions)
Students must first complete the Prerequisite Online Component through The McKenzie Institute USA website portal (and achieve a 75% pass on the post-test) prior to entering Schoology, the online learning platform for the Faculty-Guided Online Component of the course. Approximate completion time is five hours, and it must be completed by the course start date.
The Schoology Faculty-Guided Online Component consists of students viewing of asynchronous video podcasts, posting answers to quizzes and faculty questions to a discussion board and receiving feedback on posts. Faculty will give individualized and group feedback on the discussion board and during live online synchronous sessions which will take place on Saturdays using ZOOM. Patient evaluations, group work on procedures and individual critique of procedures will also be managed in the Synchronous sessions.