Beyond The Adjustment Ep. 014 | Dr. Kyla Butz – The Next Generation of Chiropractic

So I want to ask you about schools now, because a lot of a lot of the older chiropractors, you know, they have concerns about what's being taught at our schools.

And I know you can only, I mean, you don't know the landscape at every school because you only went to one school, but you would have a better perspective on this than some others, I think.

Do you think students are being taught enough in school to be successful as chiropractors? And if not, What, where's the gap? What do you think they should be doing to better prepare students for the realities of practice now that you know them? Or is it not really their job? Do you think that the schools have their role and they've been playing it? I'd just love to know your thoughts on this.

Yeah, no, that's a good question.

I mean, we all know school's number one job is to help students pass boards.

If their students can't pass boards, then they're failing as a school because they can't actually produce chiropractors that can legally practice.

And so preparing for boards, check, got it down, right? To a T.

Clinical expertise, sure, check, got it down to the orthos, the neuros, the taking a history, like all the things, right? However, where I think we're really lacking is the art of the adjustment and then also just bringing the realities of chiropractic into the school.

You can't be a robot going out and practicing and doing all the things to a T, at least in my opinion, that school teaches you because there's not as much connection there and you're I don't know, it's just, it's not flowy, right? And so I think one thing that I wish that I would have gotten, and I think there's other students or other schools that kind of do this too, but I wish I would have gotten more time in my preceptorship.

So at least at Palmer, you have your last trimester where you have the option to leave the outpatient clinic at the school to go practice underneath the license of another doctor.

And I learned so much in my preceptorship that I wish I just would have had more time with.

Because, you know, the students or the teachers that are at school, there's very few of them that are actually currently practicing.

you know, and not disrespecting any of them.

They're amazing, very knowledgeable.

They teach us well.

However, it's hard to take any business advice or real technique advice from them when they're not actually in it and they're not practicing and adjusting multiple, multiple patients a week.

And so that's one thing that I really wish that I had.

And I believe there's other schools, like I said, that offer more time in that preceptorship.

But in my opinion, three months was just too short.

And I wish we had more connection with practicing docs throughout school.

We're very isolated as a student body.

We always called it the Palmer bubble, right? So you're in your little world of chiropractic and everything is glorious and yay chiropractic and everything.

But then you get into the outside of the bubble and not everybody actually likes chiropractic.

or believes, quote unquote, in chiropractic.

And that was kind of a harsh reality exiting it because you just feel, you know, attacked by the keyboard warriors.