The Japanese Association of Chiropractors (JAC) has adopted the following policy in regard to the authorized condition of CSC program at the annual JAC Assembly on May 12^th 2002.

The JAC subscribes the policy of the WFC that has approved “Prior Approval of Profession” at the 4^th WFC Biennial Congress in Tokyo and amended at 6^th biennial Congress in Paris as follows: First professional chiropractic programs in a country must only be established on the basis of prior consultation with and approval by the national association or other chiropractic organization recognized by the World Federation of Chiropractic as representing chiropractors in that country or, if there is no such national association or organization, the regional organization recognized by the World Federation of Chiropractic (Article 8).

Anyone who wishes to start an educational program must first apply to the JAC in written form. The JAC will review an application and make an appropriate research including onsite visit if deemed necessary at the cost of an applicant. Since the JAC was founded in 1998, there is no application or prior consultation by any group as of today . (year 2000) By 2004 RMIT/JCA and CMCC/NICC programs are first two programs that had received JAC approval for its own CSC program. In 2005 JAC additionally approved 1st and 2nd cohorts of Murdoch/KCS program and 1st cohort of CCCI-Japan/ ICC program.

CSC (Chiropractic Standardization Course) was first introduced into Japan in 1996 by RMIT University, Australia.  Because CSC is a temporal bridging program for chiropractic practitioners who have not taken the international standard education and keep practicing as so called “a chiropractor” for more than three years. This temporal bridging course cannot be run without deciding the term limit.  

CSC is not designed for those who are going to start to learn chiropractic from the basic. Therefore, chiropractic techniques are not newly taught in this course. On the other hand, contents that put importance on safe chiropractic practice, such as professional ethics and risk managements, are the core of this course.

A management body of CSC is limited to the educational facilities that have educational curricula of the international standard or to educational institutions that have realistic plan to step up from the local educational program to the international standard. It is not acceptable for any educational institutions to only run CSC programs.

The WFC has several policies for countries where chiropractic is not legislated in their own countries, especially in Japan for the locally trained chiropractors to level up to the international standard.

(1)  A CSC program graduate whose program approved by the WFC is admitted as a full member of JAC, the national member of the WFC.

(2)  In the Article 8 of the international charter for the introduction of chiropractic education, it is stated as following. This enables the WFC to exert their influence through JAC.

First professional chiropractic programs in a country should only be established on the basis of prior consultation with and approval by the national association or other chiropractic organization recognized by the World Federation of Chiropractic as representing chiropractors in that country or, if there is no such national association or organization, the regional organization recognized by the World Federation of Chiropractic.

(3) In 2001, the WFC adopted the political statement that regulates the terms “chiropractic” and “ chiropractor.”

There are several educational problems that have been vague in the past. And with these policies mentioned above, the WFC tries to make these problems clear.

JAC has responsibilities to observe the policy of WFC and set it up to the Japanese chiropractic profession. JAC is the representative to WFC and needs to observe international Charter of Education and policies of WFC. 

1. The Chiropractic Standardization Course by which Japanese Association of Chiropractors will approve shall be an interim measure to introduce a Doctor of Chiropractic program consistent with the standards accredited at an internationally accepted level and the CSC will be completed by the year 2006.

2.JAC will accept the graduates of following program as full members;

1)  Existing program should cease to recruit new students before CSC initiation and the host agreed a strategy leading to the introduction of a Doctor of Chiropractic program consistent with the standards accredited at an internationally accepted level by the year 2006 which was agreed upon during 1^st Educational Consensus meeting in Tokyo.

2) The CSC programs to be offered in Japan should be accredited by the Australasian Council on Chiropractic Education, or a successor body meeting similar accreditation standards, according to the standards for CSC programs approved by the ACCE or its equivalent. The program should be completed by the year 2006 in principle.

3) The content of CSC programs and entry requirements should be matched with the standards set by the educational committee of JAC.


3. Program Contents
I.  Lecture Contents:
It must be conducted and supervised by a chiropractic institution accredited by CCE and its examinations, grading and the results must be well organized.

II. Lecturers who are responsible for the program
Japanese instructors must go through “Teaching the instructors” program so that those instructors are well prepared. There must be always at least two lecturers in attendance for quality control.


III. Qualifications for lecturers
Lecturers must possess either DC or BCSc or equivalent and lecturer having at least three years of full time clinical experiences must be in attendance.

IV.  Data control such as grading and records
Personal data of all instructors and students with regard to grading must be recorded and kept in the files.

V.  Disclosure of Materials
All distributed educational materials concerning the program must be available upon request.

VI.  Ethical Codes
Any exaggeration of promotional PR for prospective students is prohibited.