The International Chiropractic Essay Competition

Sponsored by: The ONE Research Foundation

- Call for Submissions -

Topic - Should Chiropractic Academia Embrace the Biopsychosocial Model?

Length - Not to exeed 2,000 words, excluding citations/footnotes.

Format - Digital submissions required.

Submission Deadline Extended -

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 5:00 PM EST USA

Prize - There will be two parallel categories of the contest:

Three Honorable mentions will be awarded for each category as well.

*Eligibility: Contestants must be a currently enrolled student in a Chiropractic College. Those being awarded the D.C. degree in May or June 2008 are eligible.

*Eligibility: Must be engaged as full-time, adjunct, or Emeritus Faculty member of a Chiropractic College.

Why is the ONE Research Foundation sponsoring this Essay Competition?

We feel that the Biopsychosocial Model (BPSM) and the identity of Chiropractic is an important topic for discussion and consideration in Chiropractic, especially given the fact that the future of Chiropractic is literally launched from those lecture halls. There are many changes happening including the increased pace of the evolution of treatment models both within and outside of Chiropractic, and the large scale movement of patients seeking more effective and comprehensive healthcare.

The Biopsychosocial model has been identified as an important element of the identity of Chiropractic agreed by WFC members as set forth in the World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC’s) “Unanimous agreement on the Identity of the Profession” from the 8th Biennial Congress in 2005.

The ONE Research Foundation has a mission to explore, through research, the Biopsychosocial Model (BPSM) and specifically the treatment modality- Neuro-Emotional Technique.

Our goal in sponsoring this competition is to support the opportunity for a larger debate of whether it is important for Chiropractic Academia to support the BPSM as an effective direction for the field to move in the future and, whatever the opinions expressed, can they be supported by existing research. This is the reason the question is entitled “Should…” instead of “Why should.”

We hope that you will join us by contributing your researches and knowledge to this discourse by submitting an essay to the competition, no matter which opinion you hold.

To create as unbiased an environment as possible, we will be employing blind judging. That is, all entries received by the judges will have no identifying information on them regarding either the author’s identity or institutional affiliation.

All of the Content Judges have been chosen from Chiropractic Academia and have extensive academic histories and accomplishments. We have secured what we feel is a group of judges that is representative in its diversity of philosophy, research, basic science, and clinical faculty as well as administrators; its institutional affiliations; and even its mix of international institutions. We also have one judge who is a professor of written communication at the University of Southern California, who will be judging the essays exclusively on structure, form, and the conformity of the essay to the Vancouver Style. We should add that none of these judges are members of the ONE Research Foundation.

We hope you will enjoy being part of both the essay process as well as the larger conversation on this topic within the field of Chiropractic.

If you have any questions or concerns email Cheryl at Cheryl@onefoundation.org or call 800-638-1411.