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Chiropractic Founder’s Day: Celebrating 128 Years of Chiropractic

The first Los Angeles College of Chiropractic graduating class of 1912. On this day in 1895, the chiropractic profession began when Daniel David Palmer performed the first chiropractic adjustment. With its historic foundations in the U.S. and continued importance to Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU), today is an important time to celebrate and honor the lasting and sustained impact chiropractic has on integrated, whole-person healthcare. History of Chiropractic in the U.S. Manual healing methods can be traced back to parallel developments in many parts of the world, including ancient China and Greece. In fact, the [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:56+00:00September 14, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News|
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Interprofessional Education Model Builds Bridges Between Academic and Clinical Communities, Students and Faculty

Southern California University (SCU)'s groundbreaking Interprofessional Education (IPE) model combines curriculum, clinic, community, and clubs to help students develop a broader base of knowledge and gain a deeper appreciation for different perspectives on care. To celebrate this innovative model and honor the ways we share knowledge, build skills, and improve patient outcomes by bridging academic and clinical communities, SCU launched the IPE and Collaborative Practice Week in June 2022. Now, having completed its second year, the IPE and Collaborative Practice Week is well on its way to cementing itself as an annual, university-wide tradition. "Student feedback was very positive,” Dr. [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:53+00:00September 12, 2023|ACM-Organic, AYUR-Organic, BSHS-Organic, DPT, Front Page News, Genetics-Organic, MSMS-Organic, MSPA-Organic, OTD|
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SCU Health announces September 2023 date for free Community Outreach Clinic

WHITTIER, CA (September 7, 2023) — SCU Health is proud to announce a free Chiropractic Care event open to all Southern Californians on Saturday, September 9 from 14 p.m. Our monthly SCU Health Community Outreach Clinic is part of a continuing effort to serve the community with integrative, whole person healthcare services, increase the awareness of whole person healthcare benefits, and provide students with clinical experience and patient treatment. The following healthcare services will be offered at our September 2023 Community Outreach Clinic: Chiropractic consultation and treatment. Treatment is based on the consultation and varies, based on the needs [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:50+00:00September 7, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News, MSPA-Organic|
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SCU’s Master of Science in Medical Science utilizes technology, USMLE-styled questions to prepare students for entry into medical school

SCU's post-baccalaureate Online or Blended Master of Science in Medical Science (MSMS) degree is designed to assist students who want to enhance their academic credentials for entry into medical, dental, physician assistant, veterinarian, or other professional healthcare programs, preparing them for careers as transformational leaders in healthcare. Alumna and MSMS Director Award Recipient Philline Eunice Castanares Tumbaga is one such student. In Fall 2022, she completed her MSMS degree and has since been accepted into the Doctor of Medicine program at Ponce Health Sciences University School of Medicine at St. Louis (PHSU). The MSMS program is designed to be [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:49+00:00August 28, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News|
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Los Angeles College of Chiropractic uses Force Sensing Table Technology to improve clinician training and assessment, along with treatment for patients

Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU) recognizes that innovation plays a very important role in advancing healthcare education and healthcare professions. The University's vision is to transform and redefine health and healthcare education. As such, the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (LACC) is using innovation to transform clinician training. Innovation that addresses immediate needs, and offers instant solutions for improvement. SCU faculty and clinical practitioners worked together in 2021 to evaluate new resources to help enhance student training, expedite assessment of manual therapy skills, and improve treatment for patients. The innovative enhancement they added to LACC that year was [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:46+00:00August 7, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News|
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Exxat scholarship program recognizes SCU PA student for contributions in diversity and inclusion

Exxat Scholarship Program Recognizes SCU PA Student for Contributions in Diversity and Inclusion SCU is proud to recognize Chanel Green, Master of Science: Physician Assistant (MSPA) Program class of fall 2023, for being awarded an Exxat Student Scholarship award for Diversity and Inclusion. Chanel has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to the SCU value of inclusivity, through which we welcome and celebrate the breadth of human diversity and cultivate a safe and thriving environment where everyone can learn, work, serve, and seek care. Diversity and inclusivity broadens perspective in our reasoning and leads to better representativeness in our conclusions, more ingenuity [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:42+00:00August 3, 2023|Front Page News, MSPA-Organic|
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SCU Health announces July 2023 date for free Community Outreach Clinic

WHITTIER, CA (July 19, 2023) — SCU Health is proud to announce a free Chiropractic Care event open to all Southern Californians on Saturday, July 22 from 14 p.m. Our monthly SCU Health Community Outreach Clinic is part of a continuing effort to serve the community with integrative, whole person healthcare services, increase the awareness of whole person healthcare benefits, and provide students with clinical experience and patient treatment. The following healthcare services will be offered at our July 2023 Community Outreach Clinic: Chiropractic consultation and treatment. Treatment is based on the consultation and varies, based on the needs [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:34+00:00July 19, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News, MSPA-Organic|
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SCU Announces Launch of Online Graduate Certificate in Pre-Genetic Counseling

SCU Announces Launch of Online Graduate Certificate in Pre-Genetic Counseling WHITTIER, CA - (June 30, 2023) — Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU) is proud to announce the launch of our Graduate Certificate in Pre-Genetic Counseling. This 12-credit, asynchronous online program is designed to help prepare those who wish to apply to a master of science in a genetic counseling degree program or explore what is involved in genetics counseling. "I am excited we are launching this innovative new program,” said Program Director Dr. Dan Handley, M.S., Ph.D. "Genetic technologies and new discoveries are transforming nearly every area of [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:30+00:00June 30, 2023|Front Page News|
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SCU students treat cyclists riding 545 miles for AIDS/Lifecycle 2023 fundraiser

SCU students provide treatments to cyclists riding 545 miles for AIDS/Lifecycle 2023 fundraiser From June 4-10, over 2,000 cyclists and volunteer "roadies” embarked on a 545-mile journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles to raise money to fight to end HIV and AIDS. AIDS/Lifecycle is the world's largest annual HIV and AIDS fundraiser and has been proudly supported by SCU since 1996, providing healthcare to the cyclists from start to finish. Since its inception in 1994, AIDS/Lifecycle participants have raised more than $300 million to support the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the HIV-related services of the Los Angeles [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:27+00:00June 27, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News|
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SCU Health announces June 2023 date for free Community Outreach Clinic

WHITTIER, CA - (June 12, 2023) — SCU Health is proud to announce a free Chiropractic Care event open to all Southern Californians on Saturday, June 17 from 14 p.m. Our monthly SCU Health Community Outreach Clinic is part of a continuing effort to serve the community with integrative, whole person healthcare services, increase the awareness of whole person healthcare benefits, and provide students with clinical experience and patient treatment. The following healthcare services will be offered at our June 2023 Community Outreach Clinic: Chiropractic consultation and treatment. Treatment is based on the consultation and varies, based on the [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:21+00:00June 12, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News, MSPA-Organic|
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