Our latest in the Leaders' Interviews series features Dr Jean Moss, one the most experienced academics in the profession; she spent 45 years at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College! Jean is in conversation with Dr Peter Dixon, Director - SPCE and President Emeritus at the Royal College of Chiropractors. He is also a former President of the British Chiropractic Association.

These discussions focus on the education and training of chiropractors as well as tackling wider issues relating to the profession.

In this video, Jean Moss makes a number of very important points:

Universities need to have rigorous admissions standards, ensuring that students are capable of managing the rigours of the course;
Unsubstantiated claims, e.g., about treating Covid-19, undermine each and every chiropractor and damage the profession;
We must resolve our identity as a profession rather than just talking about it as we have been doing for the last 50 years;
We must coalesce around the evidence base; otherwise, no government, health system or the public, will find us credible;
The growth of unethical practice, driven more by financial considerations, than the demands of good patient care, are due to unrealistic expectations and fed by practice management gurus; and,
All faculty members need to be actively involved in research