Your 4 hands-on hours and the OBCE training log
What to do after the online course — the supervised hands-on hours you complete at your clinic, and the Board's signable training log.
Oregon requires 12 hours for initial CA certification: the 8 didactic hours you complete online with ChiroSmarts, plus 4 hours of supervised hands-on training. This page covers those 4 hours.
We don’t schedule these — your clinic does
The hands-on hours are completed at your own clinic with your supervising chiropractor, on whatever schedule works for the two of you. There’s no live practical session to sign up for and nothing to wait on from us. Your supervising DC observes the hands-on work and signs off on it.
What to do
- Download the Board’s training log — CA Initial Training Guidelines and Training Log (PDF) from the Oregon Board of Chiropractic Examiners. It lists the guidelines and the log itself.
- Complete your 4 supervised hours with your supervising doctor, covering the items on the log.
- Have your doctor sign the log. Their signature is what certifies the hours.
- Keep the signed log and submit it with your OBCE application.
What comes next
After the hands-on hours: your OBCE application, fingerprinting, and the state exam. Those all happen with the Board, not on this site — see oregon.gov/obce for current forms and fees. Your roadmap lists them in order so you can track where you are.
Your ChiroSmarts certificate covers the 8 didactic hours. The hands-on hours are certified by your supervising doctor’s signature on the Board’s log — we don’t issue a certificate for them.
Questions about the log or your supervising doctor? Contact support.