Issue 7 WSDA News July 2. Kainoa Trotter. Issue 7 WSDA News July 2. Published on Jul 1. The WSDA News is the Official Publication of the Washington State Dental Association, representing more than 4,0. Want to be a Doctor of ChiropracticI am a recent graduate of a chiropractic school in 2. I had to switch professions because the field of chiropractic is so bad right now. I would not recommend anyone go into this field. US News now rates chiropractic as one of the most over rated careers. In the past 2. 0 years or so, many people entered the field of chiropractic because it was rated one of highest paying careers with the most job satisfaction. That is not true anymore. The 1. 98. 0s were a very good financial time for all medical providers because insurance re inbursement rates were so high. JC%20Marquee.Quality%20Education_0.jpg' alt='Bls Care Healthcare Manual Providers Student Loan' title='Bls Care Healthcare Manual Providers Student Loan' />Chiropractors are just getting by on insurance scraps now save for good auto insurance, and this is beginning to change in many states. The average salary for a new chiropractor is between 3. K. I definitely found this to be the case. When I went job hunting, no one would offer more than 3. K a month as a base salary. Bonus incentives are included in these contracts, but they can be very difficult to achieve. The contracts I received were designed so that I could not get a bonus very easily. Job Interview Practice Test Why Do You Want This Job Answer this job interview question to determine if you are prepared for a successful job interview. Online news and press release distribution service for small and mediumsized businesses and corporate communications. Includes current items, organized by date. US-student-loans-auto-medical-CPI.png' alt='Bls Care Healthcare Manual Providers Student Loan' title='Bls Care Healthcare Manual Providers Student Loan' />Most new associate chiropractors are sent to do marketing jobs for established chiropractors. This includes doing spinal screenings at malls, health fairs, conventions, grocery stores, etc. Chiropractors have to work very hard to market for new patients. There is a gross over supply of chiropractors right now in most major cities. Very few people find job offers that pay more than 3. K a year. Usually the only chiropractic associate jobs that pay more are the ones that specialize in auto accidents and Workers compensation claims. From personal experience, the field of personal injury can be a VERY dirty business. The man that offered me my first job just had his license suspended for illegal telemarketing to auto accident victims they buy their telephone numbers from police reports, which are a public record. Advanced Editing Workflows In Lightroom How To Cs. Since chiropractor tuition is expensive it costs around 1. K to become a chiropractor and the average salaries of new graduates are only a little over 3. K, it will become very difficult to ever pay these loans off. There are only a couple other options for a new chiropractor. One is to open a new practice, and the other is to lease space in an existing practice. Since it is exorbitantly expensive to open a new practice, many new chiropractors choose to start their own business inside of an existing practice. Chiropractic graduates know that associateships just dont pay well enough, so they try to set up their own practices with very little real world clinical or business experience. In my graduating class, half of the class or more tried to set up their own practice. Oddly enough, most of these people tried to set up their practice in the city they graduated from because they did not want to relocate. I am sure you can see the problem with a large chunk of the graduating class all trying to set up their own new business in the same city. This cycle happens year after year after year, so the oversupply of chiropractors never diminishes. I can assure you that a few years after graduation, a large portion of my fellow graduates have already gone out of business or are very close to drying up. This is a very difficult situation to be in, as new businesses of all kinds have a high failure rate. But why take up so many student loans just to be in a risky business proposition The field of chiropractic has the highest student loan default rate of any health profession, and it is going to get much, much worse very soon since insurance re imbursement rates have fallen so low. Many chiropractors have been devastated by their decision to go to chiropractic school. The number of people who are barely scraping by in chiropractic is much, much higher than the number of people who were able to make a six figure income. Notice that I have not once brought up the validity or efficacy of chiropractic. Comprehensive and meticulously documented facts about healthcare. Learn about costs, private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, politics, and more. That is a completely different topic and subject of debate. However, I will say that the internal problems of chiropractic is what is leading to chiropractic being such a difficult field to practice in. I have purely written this post on the economic prospects of being a chiropractor for a prospective medical student. Dont do it. The admission standards for chiropractic school are non existant. There are no admission interviews, and a student can get accepted with a 2. GPA. While chiropractors take many of the same classes as M. D. s, the scope and difficulty of their classes does not even remotely compare except for anatomy, which chiropractors have good training in. Chiropractic schools have to have such low standards because the schools are run completely on loan money. They need the influx of students to keep the schools in business. Enrollment at chiropractic schools has been down, so the admission standards have been lowered. Would you want to go to a school with this kind of brain drain Finally, I do want to mention that I did have some very bright classmates. Some of my classmates did have 4. GPAs and entered chiropractic because they were passionate about it. However, these exceptional students are greatly outnumbered by the students who do not care about academics. There is a saying in chiropractic schools that Ds and Cs make a D. C. There is actually some truth to this statement. With the new doctorate in Physical Therapy, physical therapists are beginning to market for much of the same patient base as chiropractors. Doctors in Physical Therapy are also activing lobbying to gave rights to perform physical manipulation like chiropractors do. If you are interested in chiropractic, avoid it all costs and become an osteopath or a doctor in physical therapy. If anyone has actually read this far I have posted another similar prospective from a different chiropractic graduate. He actually has had a more difficult time than even I did. Read his words and heed them carefully. The Truth from a new grad Chiropractor. Here is the absolute bottom line for those of you searching information on the internet and trying to decide whether or not you want to become a chiropractor. I graduated in 2. Parker College in Dallas, TX. Sounds like a lot, huhThat 1. K is primary, no interest accounted for. Parker is now the most EXPENSIVE chiropractic college in the nation. After all that time youll spend anywhere from 3 to 4 years in undergrad and then at least 3 years for chiropractic school and all that amounting debt gaining interest, too So, you must be thinking Ive got an incredible job and everything is peachy keen, right I landed a job right before graduation with a chiropractor whos respected as one of the most efficient and effective Musculoskeletal clinicians in the state. My pay 2. 6,0. 00 per year. The only benefit is I dont have to go through the humiliation of spinal screenings or suckering people into becoming patients at the local Big Lots. Of course there are better jobs out there, even chiropractic jobs, but the average is about 3. If you arent making what you spent on school every year, you made a POOR INVESTMENT, and the vast majority of chiropractors dont make 1. K, even after decades of experience. I could have just saved the time and money I spent on schooling and gone as a high school graduate to work at Home Depot and I would STILL be making more. I feel humiliated, mislead, and bitter EVERY DAY. My chiropractic prospects are very limited despite just entering the medical work force. My wife and I have a new baby and I cant provide to pay for housing and food, so we have almost 1. The only way to make any amount of money in chiropractic is to open your own practice and what bank would loan money to a young person with 1. K in debt If you really like manipulation, go to DO school or PT school. Please, please, please stay away from chiropractic school.