feature Graduate Studies at CMCC Ongoing innovation in chiropractic education Special report provided by CmCC faculty MCC’s division of graduate studies has proven a fertile training ground for many of the profession’s brightest stars since the academic residencies were first estab-lished in 1975. The list of alumni is a who’s who of chiropractic, and among the program’s 94 graduates, 72 are still actively involved in academia and research both in universities and chiropractic programs. A further 11 occupy posts as senior administra-tors in academic institutions around the world. These exceptional minds have been drawn to graduate studies at CMCC by the breadth of opportunities these offer, as well as the innovative windows they have opened up for the profession, and its members, to expand through. Dr. Pierre Côté, an alumnus of the graduate studies program at CMCC, is one of these prominent minds whose studies at CMCC have helped him take chiropractic into new frontiers. Among other appointments, Dr. Côté is a scientist in the Division of Health Care and Outcomes Research at the Toronto Western Research Institute and an associate professor of epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He was also a member of the Scientific Secretariat of the Decade of the Bone and Joint 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and is currently conducting the University Health Network Whiplash Intervention Trial, a large ran-domized clinical trial of the effectiveness of three programs of care for the treatment of whiplash injuries. “My graduate studies at CMCC helped to shape my understanding of the etiology, prognosis and treatment of back and neck pain from a systemic and policy perspective,” says Dr. Côté. “It was an experience that has been foundational to my academic and scientific career.” Originally focused on clinical sciences and radiology, CMCC’s graduate program 8 • Canadian ChiropraCtor | September 2011 www.canadianchiropractor.ca C
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