Grit and chiropractic students' academic performance: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: Previous investigations have studied the relationship between grit and academic performance, and it has been reported that grittier students perform better academically. The objectives of this study are to measure chiropractic students' grittiness and to explore the correlation between grit and academic performance.

Methods: We distributed the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S) questionnaire to chiropractic students in electronic form.

Newly qualified chiropractors' perceptions of preparedness for practice: A cross-sectional study of graduates from European training programs.

Objective: The purpose of this pilot study was to explore chiropractic graduates' perceived preparedness for practice in the 7 key competencies of the Canadian Medical Education Directives for Specialists.

Methods: An anonymous 5-point Likert scale electronic questionnaire was distributed to graduates from the 2014-2016 cohorts of 9 European chiropractic colleges accredited by the European Council of Chiropractic Education. For each group under 1 competency role, the mean overall score was calculated.