GEN-C presents Applied Clinical Pharmacology for the Chiropractor

The Global Education Network for Chiropractic is a collaboration between the European Academy of Chiropractic, Chiropractic Australia, and The Royal College of Chiropractors. The GEN-C brings you online evidence-based CPD developed by leading experts in our profession. More information about the GEN-C and available CPD can be found at www.genchiro.org

Course Title: GEN-C presents Applied Clinical Pharmacology for the Chiropractor

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the course, the learner should be able to:

1. Obtain clinical information from a list of medications.
2. Understand the possible side effects of chiropractic treatment by assessing the medication list.
3. Appraise a medication list and employ this an important clinical tool.
4. Be familiar with pain medication: dosages, side-effects and the pain staircase.

Following completion of the lecture, you will be directed to 10 multiple choice questions. Upon successful completion of these questions you will be emailed a CPD certificate for 2 hours (or 2 points).

The lecture is presented by Tom Michielsen MD, MSc (Chiro), FEAC:

Tom works a as a chiropractor in a private group practice in Mol and Turnhout, Belgium.  In 1998, he got his degree in medicine from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He graduated from AECC in 2001 as valedictorian. From 2008 until 2013, he was the chairman of the ECU research fund. In 2016, he was appointed as a member of the academic advisory committee of the European Chiropractic Centre for Research Excellence (ECCRE). From 2015 until 2019, he was the vice president of the Belgian Chiropractic Union. Tom is the chairman of the European Academy of Chiropractic since 2017.