SCU Making a World of Difference!

Dartmouth Partnership

We are proud of SCU’s ground-breaking spine care partnership with Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire. The Spine Care Project is an innovative approach to the treatment of spine-related injuries which promises higher value, more cost-effective, patient-centered outcomes. An SCU clinical fellow is also employed at Dartmouth hospital as project lead clinician for this spine care research project.
Read the full blog on this initiative.

Distinguished Faculty

Our distinguished and highly recognized faculty is one of the many ways SCU is set apart. We are fortunate to have cultivated an environment where scholar-practitioners thrive and become sought after speakers, presenters, researchers, contributors, and much more. Many of our faculty’s published research may be found on this page.

Innovative Curriculum Design

SCU has maintained an evidence-based, outcomes-focused, academically rigorous curriculum while enhancing ongoing learning strategies and clinical experiences for over a century. Since 1911, SCU has been a leader in innovative curricular design, incorporating lectures and laboratories in addition to a significant amount of additional means of instruction. The combination of course design and clinical experience equips students to change lives and as competent, practice-ready practitioners.

Leading Diagnostics

Students become proficient in cutting edge diagnostic methodology and practice on par with industry leading medical schools. Excellence in diagnostics, treatment, and technique aligns our mission to educate truly patient-centered and integrative healthcare practitioners.

Rotations

Graduates are prepared for practice with a blend of rotations through a network of affiliated private practices and base clinics. Rotation partners include the Cal State, University of California, many other university health systems, and the largest free clinic in the country.

Basic Sciences

The first year of most programs concentrates on the basic sciences to provide a solid foundation of understanding how the body is organized on a cellular, tissue, and organ level, along with regional interrelationships. Some technique courses start in term one and occur every term until the clinical year. Students do this in an inter-professional educational environment by being in classes with students from a variety of healthcare professions; learning about, from, and with each other.

Clinical Sciences

Several classes take advantage of the inter-professional educational opportunities at SCU, but with many practice specific courses, the second year of study usually builds upon year one by focusing on how basic science knowledge about structure and function relate to the clinical presentation of a patient in both health and disease.