California Code of Regulations
Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations
Division 4 - State Board of Chiropractic Examiners
Article 4 - Approved Schools and Qualifications of Applicants
Section 331.13 - Physical Facilities
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 12, March 22, 2024
(a) General: Each school shall own, or enjoy the assured use of a physical plant large enough to accommodate classrooms, lecture rooms, laboratories, a clinic, a library and administrative and faculty offices. Each school shall meet and maintain the standards and requirements established by or under the authority of the laws of the State of California governing educational institutions and all applicable city and county ordinances wherein the school is located and shall maintain competent evidence of such compliance, for examination by the Board.
(b) Administrative Offices: The administrative offices shall provide adequate office space for faculty members.
There shall be space available for faculty conferences.
All furnishings shall be serviceable and functional and there shall be sufficient office equipment, subject to Board approval, to efficiently manage the business of the school.
There shall be fireproof storage for all records and documents required by the Chiropractic Initiative Act, statute, or regulations.
All administrative offices shall meet the standards and requirements incorporated by subparagraph (a) above.
(c) Classrooms: There shall be sufficient number and size of classrooms to separately accommodate the graded classes in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year classes. No two or more subjects shall be taught in the same classroom simultaneously. No two or more student classes (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year) shall be taught in the same classroom simultaneously. Classrooms shall be located where there is quiet and freedom from interruption and distraction.
All classrooms shall be furnished with audio-visual aids appropriate to the subject matter being taught, and desks and chairs or tablet armchairs. There shall be effective shades to darken rooms equipped with visual projection apparatus.
All classrooms shall meet the standards and requirements incorporated by subparagraph (a) above.
(d) Laboratories: Laboratories shall be well lighted and ventilated and shall be equipped for the practical work in human dissection, histology, chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, pathology, laboratory diagnosis, roentgenology, physiotherapy and chiropractic technique.
Anatomy and pathology laboratories shall contain standard equipment. No more than ten (10) students shall be assigned per table. Sinks should be equipped with wrist action or foot pedal valves, and supplied in a sufficient number. Human cadavers and specimens for individual and small group demonstrations shall be supplied. If human cadavers are not available, or state law prohibits their use, schools must obtain prior written approval from this Board.
Microscopic laboratories shall have one microscope and one desk light for each two (2) students in the class.
Chiropractic technique laboratories shall be equipped with one chiropractic adjusting table for every four (4) students in the class.
Actual student experience with X-ray phantom or equivalent for all areas of the body shall be necessary.
Additionally, all laboratories shall meet the standards and requirements incorporated in subparagraph (a) above.
(f) Teaching Aids and Equipment: For the subject of physiotherapy there shall be sufficient generally recognized equipment for classroom and clinic purposes (to include sine galvanic, ultrasound, diathermy, ultraviolet, heat, cold, percussion, and transaction). For the practical work and physical diagnosis students shall be required to own the ordinary and usual diagnostic instruments, including, but not limited to, thermometers, stethoscopes, sphygmomanometers, oto-ophthalmoscope examination sets, and orthopedic-neurological examination instruments. Each school shall own and teach the use of the current standard diagnostic instruments and a list of same shall be made available to the Board upon request. For classroom demonstration and visual education aids, each school shall own charts, mannequins, skeletons, bone collections, anatomical and embryological models, stereopticons, balopticons, micro-projections, and video players or similar projection equipment. The film and slide library shall be constantly augmented by the addition of new material.
(g) Library: A library shall be provided for the use of the student body. The minimum requirements for a library are:
(h) Clinic: Each school shall operate a general out-patient clinic where the senior students will obtain actual experience, practical knowledge and skill in:
Such a clinic shall at all times be under the supervision of a clinician who meets the standards of the Council on Chiropractic Education.
The minimum requirements of a clinic are:
(i) Operation and Maintenance of the Physical Plant. In addition to the requirement of subparagraph (a) above, each school shall operate and maintain all physical equipment in good repair.
Lockers shall be available for student use.
1. Amendment
of subsection (h)(2) filed 8-19-77; effective thirtieth day thereafter
(Register 77, No. 34).
2. Amendment of subsection (h)(2) filed
8-29-77 as an emergency; designated effective 9-18-77. Certificate of
Compliance included (Register 77, No. 34).
3. Amendment filed
4-17-2001; operative 5-17-2001 (Register 2001, No.
16).