CQAC Instructor Approval

The Chiropractic Quality Assurance Commission (CQAC) implemented new rules for training chiropractic x-ray technicians, effective July 1, 2024. One of these new requirements is for 30 hours of hands-on instruction, in addition to 42 hours of academic instruction.

Instead of requiring your staff member to travel to Seattle for two weekends, we have developed a curriculum that can be taught in-house by a qualifying instructor.

1. The instructor must be a licensed chiropractor. A radiology technologist or a chiropractic x-ray technician may not provide this instruction.
2. The chiropractor must have been in practice for at least 5 years.
3. The chiropractor must be in good standing with the Chiropractic Quality Assurance Commission — no license suspensions or restrictions within the past 5 years.

If you have more than one chiropractor in your office, you can team up to provide the 30 hours of instruction, provided that each chiropractor meets the requirements and applies for themselves.

If you meet the fairly simple requirements (see above), you will be authorized by CQAC to teach material provided by Dr. Vlasuk to your employees as part of the x-ray training program.

Once you’re approved, you don’t need to reapply for your next employee, as long as your license remains in good standing.

NO. That part of the program is for the student only.

No, nothing! Our package price includes everything you’ll need.

We arrange:

• Your instructor application with CQAC.
• Tracking of students’ progress.
• Developing content for the other 42 hours of the course (both live online classroom and self-paced/on-demand videos).
• Developing study guides and practice tests for students’ use throughout the course.
• Developing and administering the final exam.
• Submitting students’ test results to CQAC.
• Ongoing record-keeping for all students.

You get:

• A detailed outline of material that must be covered over the 30 hours.
• Instructor’s notes which include descriptions and illustrations of each x-ray position.
• Narrated video clips of all the required x-ray positions, showing Dr. Vlasuk positioning a patient.
• A practical exam that you will administer to your student. The time spent on this exam is counted as part of the 30 hours.
• Access to Dr. Vlasuk via Zoom “office hours,” for any questions you have along the way.

Again, this is everything you and your employee will need to successfully complete the 30-hour in-house training.

No, not necessarily. You can set up any schedule that works for you and your employee — you can pack it into several hours on a couple of weekends; you can spend one hour a day for a month — however you want to do it. There’s no specified schedule.

Not specifically. You and your staff can work at whatever pace works for you.

The student has one year from the date of their first day of Zoom class to complete the entire course and take the final exam.

No, this is the middle section of the course (30 hours out of 72). The first section is a live “online classroom,” taught by Dr. Vlasuk via Zoom. The third section is a series of on-demand videos that the student will complete at their own speed. All of that is followed by a final exam, which the student must pass in order to receive their course completion certificate.

I’m afraid our program doesn’t have any flexibility with this — the requirement for hands-on training has been set by the Chiropractic Quality Assurance Commission. If you do not get approved by CQAC, here are the current options:

• If there’s an issue with your license, you could simply wait until the matter is resolved with CQAC.
• You could ask a chiropractor colleague to come in and train your staff (see next question below).
• You can contact CQAC about other approved 72-hour courses, which might have a different structure. CQAC will not provide names of individual chiropractors who are approved to teach the 30-hour portion of our course, or make recommendations about how or where a student can obtain this training. They will only provide a list of approved 72-hour courses.

Yes, you can make that arrangement if you want to. You would need to make all arrangements with that person, completely separate from the course registration fee paid to us for your tech. Here are some things to consider:

• That other person will have to meet the same requirements (see above) and fill out the instructor’s application for themselves.
• You would establish any mutually-agreeable compensation for their time, or some kind of personal or professional trade.
• The course registration fee for each technician includes $350 for the instructor’s materials.
  • These teaching materials are licensed to you for 3 years. You don’t have to buy the materials again if you have another tech to train within those 3 years.
  • You could negotiate whether your colleague keeps the instructor materials or leaves them with you. Either of you could obtain your own set of teaching materials by registering a new tech for a future course.

Absolutely! This would be an arrangement for you to work out with the other office. See the previous question.