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Life Chiropractic College West
25001 Industrial Blvd
Hayward, California, USA, 94545
Phone: (800) 788-4476
Fax: (510) 780-4525
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Unite With the Future of Health Care
Life Chiropractic College West
You are about to learn of a place that is helping to change the future of health care. Life Chiropractic College West is the global leader in preparing today's doctor of chiropractic to play an ever-increasing role in helping people regain and maintain optimum health.
Two academic programs of study are available: a 12-quarter and 14-quarter curriculum. Transfer students from other chiropractic colleges are assigned to custom or “special” schedules to accommodate credit from another institution. Together, these programs of study allow you complete the four year academic curriculum in as few as three calendar years, or to enjoy flexibility should you want a lighter academic load.
Your education is capped with a year-long internship in the College’s Health Center, providing you with clinical experience under the guidance of the faculty. This is complimented by coursework in real-world skills such as establishing a successful practice, effective office management, and community relations.
Our graduates are indeed successful! After five years in practice, our data shows a net income for chiropractors in excess of $90,000!
Life Chiropractic College West, which offers a Doctor of Chiropractic degree, is located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area. The College provides solid academic and clinical experience, featuring an integrated emphasis on chiropractic philosophy and technique. Students may complete the program in as few as 12 quarters, with extended academic programs of up to 14 quarters available.
Life West students are trained in over 12 different techniques through its core and elective programs. Equipped with a strong background in the sciences, a deep understanding of the chiropractic philosophy, and training in leading techniques, Life graduates become well-prepared for a career in chiropractic health care.
Life West is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the Council on Chiropractic Education, an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
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| Life West is Fabulous! by Julie Restad |
Date posted: (05/30/2007) |
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| I almost went to another school in California, but a great doc redirected me. At that point I had no idea about philosophy and what it meant to my future as a chiropractor. I believe it is the difference in success and failure. Without it you are simply moving bones, and chiropractic is much more than just moving bones. LCCW gave me all the opportunities to become a great doc; lots of technique, philosophy, science and teachers that care about your future. Everyone has the choice to make the best out of their education, and no school can not do it all. I do believe the education on business skills could improve greatly, but that is why there are exterships. When it comes to schools, LCCW is number one in education, philosophy & experience. |
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| My only suggestion would be make the most of your education. It is what YOU want it to be. Attend as many seminars as you can, join as many clubs as possible, and really learn! Don't just learn to take boards, but etch the knowledge in your brain. It is all valuable. Granted, as a chiropractor certain knowledge is more valuable that some but it will all come in handy at some point. Even if it is simply to prove to the public that we chiropractors are genuine doctors, and nothing less. Knowledge is power, eat it up! |
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| Life West is a great school, with passion about creating amazing chiropractors...and it does. If you hold up your end of the bargin, LCCW will hold up it's end. You will walk away with a Lasting Purpose: To love, To do, To give, and To serve, Out of abundance.
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| I would do it all over again! by DrLauren |
Date posted: (05/29/2007) |
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| I had a fantastic experience at Life West. Not only did I have zero trouble passing National Boards and getting licensed, I graduated as a GREAT adjuster and ready to serve people. I've heard lots of complaints about the need for more business classes both at Life West and at other colleges. The thing is, there are several very good business classes offered at Life West. Students just aren't in a place to appreciate them because they're bogged down with the gazillion tests they have to pass and everything else that is chiropractic school. Life West offers a balanced curriculum, more than adequately preparing you to pass your boards, and more importantly, instilling the value of the chiropractic philosophy and the importance of the chiropractic adjustment. Everyone there from the admissions and financial aid departments to instructors to administrators want you to succeed! There is so much support and encouragement, and instructors actually relate all courses to chiropractic and a vitalistic approach to life. Life West students are encouraged to find their own paths, and are given many tools in which to do so. AND I got to live in one of the most amazing parts of the country! Northern California may be expensive, but it's totally worth it. |
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| Life West does a good job of listening to students, faculty and alumni so that when there are problems (which are inevitable), there are usually solutions soon to follow. |
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| I would highly recommend Life West to anyone that is looking to become a chiropractor. Life West embodies not only that which the profession was founded on, but also where it's going, without compromising along the way. |
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| More than chiropractic, it's life! by adio923 |
Date posted: (05/29/2007) |
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| Where to begin? First of all, LCCW is among the elite of chiro schools as it offers a multitude of techniques, clubs, and philosophy. Where else can you find a school that advocates that much diversity? Secondly, the rigorous scheduling and long hours studying in the library, coupled with the hours dissecting cadavers really makes you appreciate your fellow peers and unites everyone towards a common goal...graduating!
More importantly, however, were the lessons I learned outside of the classroom and clinic that will keep LCCW true in my heart for the rest of my days. I went into school as a person searching for direction, hoping that I could learn enough to help others and to make a decent living doing so. I came out of LCCW with more than I could ask for. Through all the seminars, mission trips, and conversations with fellow peers and teachers, I became a a renewed man....the person I always knew I was, but couldn't seem to be, always falling short of doing this or saying what I wanted to say. I realized that life is all about choices...do you want to follow in the footsteps of the masses to be safe and conservative, thus choosing the well-travelled road or do you want to take the less travelled path in order to discover yourself and your purpose? My mentor once told me, "in order to be, it's up to me." To this day, that statement defines what and who I am. If not for my experience at Life West, I wouldn't be here today writing this review half way across the world from singapore. The bottom line is this: if you want an experience that provides diversity, insight, self-reflection, and growth in both academics and self, choose LCCW. It'll be the best decision you've ever made. |
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| Practicing for a few years now, I can honestly tell you that the reason chiropractors fail is not because of a lack of skills, but for a lack of business training. We aren't taught to run businesses in school...and this applies to every single chiro school...the best advice I would have would be to visit as many offices as you can, then compile the things you liked in those various offices and work on acheiving your goals....don't be afraid to ask questions because how else can you learn if you don't? |
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| LCCW all the way! I can't express enough the thanks to all my fellow grads and peers....a few years of school, but a lifetime of memories and friends! |
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| Life West all the way baby!!!!! by Dr. Juli |
Date posted: (05/09/2006) |
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| Attending Life West was the best decision I ever made. In fact, my first day of school was the very first day I ever stepped foot on the campus (the old one at that!)I grew up surrounded by Life West graduates and it never even crossed my mind that I wouldn't go there. It just made sense, seeing these doctors come out of school with a passion and confidence that was absolute. I knew Life West would be the school for me, and it was. The curriculum, I imagine, was probably similar to that of other colleges. But it was all the extra stuff, the technique clubs, the philosophy all around you all the time, and the people. The instructors were amazing and committed your success at every turn. I definitely graduated with rock solid chiropractic principles, without a doubt. |
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| I would suggest to any prospective students that you make an effort to visit as many different offices as you can. Find an office that you hope to emulate and spend lots of time there learning and absorbing how it's run. Chiropractic school gives you a strong foundaton and but it's still a business and that's where the curriculum fails us accross the board. I don't think chiropractors who graduate from Life West or any other school for that matter, fail because they don't have the skills, I think they fail because they don't know how to run a business. |
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| In my opinion, Life West is the best choice for your chiropractic education hands down!! |
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| Life-West Rocks! by drjla |
Date posted: (04/27/2006) |
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| I had a great experience at Life-West. The core fundamentals taught are excellent. LCCW graduates DCs that are sound in chiropractic principles and technique, and are ready to make a difference in the lives of our patients. |
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| Enter to learn, go forth to serve. |
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| Given the vast choices in chiropractic education, paying for an education at Life-West is money well spent. |
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Date posted: (04/16/2006) |
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| My experience at Life West was a good one. I transferred from Logan (half way through the curriculum). Life West has more of an emphasis on technique. It was supposed to be more philosophically based, but I'm not sure that was true. The CCE pretty much dictates what is taught in the Chiropractic colleges. In comparing LCCW to Logan, I would say that the average student is much more into alternative health. But I'm not sure they are graduating any more philosophically grounded chiropractors than most of the other colleges. |
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| The Bay area is very expensive for the typical student. It was much cheaper to live in the mid west. I think that should be a consideration. Life West was a good school. The skills that are actually going to make you successful upon graduation (adjusting, and being philosophically grounded) are readily available, but you have to go and seek them out outside of your class room education. Like any school, the professors that are teaching there, more often than not, have not, and perhaps could not, make it as chiropractors in the market place. Find a good mentor, someone who is a successful chiropractor TODAY, and ask them where to place their emphasis.
Spend lots of time learning the business side of running a practice. That is a major weakness of all chiropractic colleges. Less than successful professors teaching students how to build successful practices leads to predictable results. |
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| Life West was a good school. I am not sure I would say it was better or worse than Logan. Having spoken with former classmates, there are people from both schools that have failed and are no longer practicing chiropractic. This is fairly common.
Learn how to adjust and run your business. You can do this at any college. Life West being one of them. I had a great time there, loved the Bay Area, and LCCW got me my license. However, they have played little part in my practice success. All of the schools are teaching stuff mandated by the CCE, and when you apply that stuff to the real world, you either struggle in practice, or fail miserably.
Overall, I would say that LCCW and Logan are as good as any schools out there. However, that is more of a reflection on the poor quality of education that all of the chiropractic colleges are giving than it is an endorsement of either school.
Learn to adjust, run a business,and be philosphically grounded no matter what school you attend. Retain enough info you've been taught by your prof's to get you licensed, and then forget all of it as soon as you can. |
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| LCCW is turning out true, principled chiropractors by Brian Petersen |
Date posted: (02/11/2007) |
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| The school a student chooses will be the biggest factor on what type of chiropractor they will be. Will they simply be a musculoskeletal mechanic or will they be a true healer with the principles of the Art, Science and Philosophy of a Chiropractor? |
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| I hope every student considering chiropractic first figures out why they have the desire to become a chiropractor. Is it because they truly love to serve people? Is it because you were mentored by a DC? My hope is that the motivation is not the income that is possible. When you practice true chiropractic, the income is simply the product of services rendered but should not be the motivator. Serving people and changing lives. Teaching a new paradigm to your patients and having an impact on a wellness trend in society should be the motivator. Students will get this philosophy and the techniques to succeed at LCCW. |
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| There is no question this school should have a 5 / 5 rating!!! If you are rating the school on student success in national boards, philosophy provided by the school and their support system of successful chiropractors and the amount of technique classes provided to the students... this school gets a 5. |
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