practice in the U.K., so some aspects of running a small business – bookkeeping, ac-counting, marketing – it came quite naturally for us,” she says. “I don’t know whether I would recommend to a new, young graduate, fresh out of college with no business ex-perience, to start with India. It’s not an easy choice, but I love it. If you can make it work in India you can make it anywhere.” It might be different, how-ever, if one is coming in as an associate to an existing prac-tice, she notes. That kind of opportunity is starting to take hold. Global venture Donohue, who just started her practice with OrthoCure in Gurgaon, may be the first to take advantage of an emerging opportunity for new chiropractors coming to India. Her placement was made possible by the Global Chiropractic Management Group (GCMG), a new venture spearheaded by a group of Indian-Canadian chiropractors: Drs. Vikas Puri, Gina Bajaj, Chandini Bakshi and Nanda. Puri and Bajaj, both from Brampton, Ont., have been coming to and serving at the Samagam since 2015. Their experiences at these missions only re-affirmed their belief of the need for increased presence of and better access to chiropractic in India. “Other than just the mis-sion, we want to help bring chiropractic here more actively,” says Dr. Vikas Puri, one of the founders of GCMG. “We do that by ap-proaching private clinics and hospitals and explaining to them what chiropractic is and see if they will have a chiropractor there.” The group is also starting to recruit potential candi-dates by promoting the initi-ative at various chiropractic colleges, trying to gauge in-terest among new graduates. The idea is to bring in chiro-practic associates to work in existing private clinics and hospitals in India. GCMG provides mentor-ship to these new associates to ensure successful place-ment and clinical practice. The goal is to ultimately grow the profession in India, says Bajaj. “I want to see that we’re in every major city, either in independent chiropractic clinics, in hospitals, physio clinics – wherever there’s a need and whichever way we can serve more people, that’s what I want to see,” Bajaj says. Like the IACD, this group of Canadians who trace their roots to India, also would like to see a chiropractic college established in the country. This, they believe, can hap-pen once the number of chiropractors in the country has significantly increased and demand for chiropractic services becomes more wide-spread. “We very much want to actively be part of any talks that help bring a chiropractic school here,” Puri says. BC BackSwing ‘18 Wednesday, May 9, 2018 Richmond Country Club Richmond, BC www.cmcc.ca/bcbackswing Silver sponsors CMCC’s 6 th annual Serving Canada's IME needs www.canadianchiropractor.ca CC_CMCC_Backswing_April18_CSA.indd 1 April 2018 Canadian Chiropractor 23 2018-03-05 7:26 AM
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