As a Specialist Chiropractor, you will need to master following:

• accept own accountability
• adhere to health well-being and safety
• advise on healthcare users' informed consent
• advocate health
• apply clinical chiropractic competencies in sport
• apply context specific clinical competences
• collect healthcare user's general data
• comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
• conduct chiropractic examination
• contribute to continuity of health care
• develop plans related to client discharge
• develop plans related to the transfer of care
• develop therapeutic relationships
• employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
• ensure safety of healthcare users
• exert a goal-oriented leadership role towards colleagues
• formulate a treatment plan
• manage chiropractic staff
• measure effectiveness of the service provided
• microbiology-bacteriology
• neuroanatomy
• obstetrics and gynaecology
• prescribe healthcare products
• promote health and safety policies in health services
• promote inclusion
• provide chiropractic diagnosis
• provide chiropractic maternal healthcare
• provide chiropractic paediatric healthcare
• provide clinical chiropractic neurology
• provide information on chiropractic treatment outcomes
• provide learning support in healthcare
• provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
• record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
• refer healthcare users
• supervise chiropractic students
• triage clients
• use e-health and mobile health technologies
• work in multidisciplinary health teams

More generally, a specialist chiropractor is also versed in:

• apply organisational techniques
• biomechanics
• communicate in healthcare
• comply with legislation related to health care
• conduct health related research
• contribute to the rehabilitation process
• create solutions to problems
• deal with emergency care situations
• develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
• educate on the prevention of illness
• empathise with the healthcare user
• first aid
• follow clinical guidelines
• general medicine
• geriatrics
• human anatomy
• human physiology
• inform policy makers on health-related challenges
• interact with healthcare users
• interpret medical results
• manage clinical risk
• manage healthcare staff
• manage healthcare users' data
• medical informatics
• neurology
• orthopaedics
• paediatrics
• pharmacology
• provide health education
• psychology
• rehabilitation
• respond to changing situations in health care
• use different communication channels
• work in a multicultural environment in health care

It also helps to know the following:

• contribute to quality physiotherapy services
• develop chiropractic services
• engage in chiropractic research
• manage personal professional development
• therapeutic massage
• use foreign languages for health-related research
• use foreign languages in patient care