2 CMCC Academic Calendar 2017-2018
About CMCC
History The Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) was established in 1945 by chiropractors who gathered from across Canada to establish a central association for the profession — the Dominion Council of Chiropractors, which later became the Canadian Chiropractic Association. It was their vision to establish an academic institution that would espouse a high standard of chiropractic education and become a catalyst for the cohesive development of chiropractic in Canada. “Memorial” in the name is in honour of Canadian Daniel David Palmer, who founded chiropractic in the United States in 1895. Chiropractic soon developed into one of the largest primary contact health care professions in North America. CMCC opened its doors on September 18, 1945 — the 50th anniversary of the first chiropractic adjustment — welcoming a large class of veterans returning from World War II. CMCC served Canada as the sole provider of chiropractic education until 1993, when a francophone program was established in Québec. In 1982, after achieving “Recognized Candidate for Accreditation Status” with the Commission on Accreditation of the Council on Chiropractic Education (Canada) Inc. (now the Council on Chiropractic Education Canada of the Federation of Canadian Chiropractic), CMCC became accredited in 1986. CMCC established postgraduate chiropractic residency programs in Chiropractic Clinical Sciences and Radiology (now Diagnostic Imaging) in 1975. A Chiropractic Sports Sciences residency program was added in 1994. In 2012, CMCC expanded its postgraduate offerings to include a certificate program in Work Disability Prevention which, effective in 2017, is offered with and through the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in an online format. In 2005, CMCC became the first private institution to offer a profession oriented health care degree under the Government of Ontario’s Post-secondary Education Choice and Excellence Act, 2000.