Michigan Chiropractic Continuing Education Requirements

Your Requirements: Each chiropractor is required to complete 30 hours of continuing education in courses or programs approved by the Board. during the 2-year period prior to the date of renewal of the license.

Each chiropractor is required to complete:

1 continuing education hour in sexual boundaries,
1 continuing education hour in ethics,
1 continuing education hours in pain and symptom management,
2 live, in-person continuing education hours in physical measures
2 live, in-person continuing hours in performance and ordering of tests.

Not more than 15 of the required 30 hours may be in board-approved distance learning programs.

Distance learning means any of the following: approved continuing education courses, programs, or activities where the instructor and participant are apart and not able to immediately interact. Instruction takes place through media including, but not limited to, journal articles, manuals, CDs, DVDs, audio and video tapes, research projects, and Internet courses. Every chiropractor that is renewing his/her license should retain records documenting the completion of continuing education.
Those documents should be retained for a period of 4 years after the application for renewal.
DO NOT SEND THE CONTINUING EDUCATION DOCUMENTS along with the license renewal application. The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Health Care Services will conduct an audit, at the conclusion of the renewal period. Chiropractors chosen for audit through an automated random selection process will be contacted by letter to submit documented evidence of the completion of 30 hours of continuing education credit.

Distance Learning / Online Allowed:  12 Hours per 1 year renewal cycle.