American Chiropractic Association (ACA) member Kevin Bjorlie, DC, of Fargo, N.D., recently received the Fargo VA Health Care System’s 2022 Clinician of the Year Award. After many years of working to integrate chiropractic care into the VA system, Dr. Bjorlie...
ACA VA Chiropractic Residencies
VA Chiropractic Residency: Applications, Interviews, and Matching
Last year on March 16, Match Day, I got accepted into the Veteran’s Affairs (VA) of Western New York Healthcare System chiropractic residency program. Selection of VA chiropractic residents is done through a standardized process, but like me, you may still wonder...
VA Chiropractic Resident: My Month with Neurosurgery
Morgan Price, DC When I woke up the morning of March 16, 2020, to an email matching me with my residency program, I could not even begin to understand how different of an experience it would be from anything I...
VA Chiropractic Residency Adapts to Global COVID-19 Pandemic
By Michael R. Cole II, DC, MS The VA Chiropractic Residency is a competitive clinical residency program with the purpose of training post-graduate chiropractors in a hospital-based integrative setting. The resident is a post-doctoral chiropractor, who is supervised by experienced...
Response to Pain in a Global Pandemic
How the Miami VA Medical Center Chiropractic Department implemented policies to provide essential services to veterans in need. By Casey Rogers, DC President John F. Kennedy once said, “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to...
The Empowerment of a VA Residency
By Rebekah Wilks, DC As doctors of chiropractic, we graduate “practice-ready,” meaning that based on our rigorous training we are qualified to immediately enter the workforce. While this designation accurately reflects our training, is this the most beneficial approach for...
VA Clerkship vs. VA Residency: What Do I Need to Know?
By Alyssa Troutner, DC Editor's Note: This week, the VA opened its yearly application process for the chiropractic residency program. For application materials, visit the VA website. Learn more about what it's like to be a VA resident below and in our...
Experience Is Everything: VA Clerkship Helped Me to Clarify My Career Path
By Casey Rogers Chiropractic students are often faced with difficult decisions regarding the trajectory of practice we intend to pursue. This becomes increasingly true as we approach the culmination of our education journeys. Some choose private practice while others prefer...
Serving Those Who Served: Preparation for Veteran-centered Care
By Jonathan Free, DC As an institution that serves more than 9 million veterans nationwide, the Veterans Health Administration provides a unique environment for patient care with both the patient and provider experience being quite distinct when compared to other...
Introducing the 2019-2020 VA Chiropractic Residents
A new cohort of residents has joined the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system’s Chiropractic Residency Program this fall. Several chiropractors participating in the program will continue ACA’s blog series on the residencies over the next year, sharing their experiences and...
