Who we are
The World Congress of Chiropractic Students (WCCS) has always been a student run organisation, driven to represent and empower the voice of chiropractic students and achieve greater unity across the global profession.
As an apolitical non-profit organisation, we strive to offer chiropractic students a platform to enhance leadership and advocacy skills, while gaining a deeper understanding about the diversity within the chiropractic profession.
Get to know us.
Gain knowledge about the organisation’s history, as well as locations and convenors of past Annual General Meetings.
Learn more about the structure of the organisation, its internal committees and their respective roles within the profession.
Explore our Missions, Visions and Values that underpin the essence of our organisation and get to know the goals we are striving to achieve.
Discover our four Regions, each encompassing diverse chapters from across the globe.
What WCCS
alumni are saying
I think of my time in WCCS with great joy. I miss the special atmosphere of the Annual General Meetings and Regional Events – and I will always cherish the experiences and memories from that time.
WCCS was key to success in real life practice. It connects you to the global chiropractic community, highlighting the importance of diverse teachings and philosophies, while creating lifelong friends and memories. I truly recommend WCCS to every chiro student going through uni: the time, energy and financial investment are truly worth it. I now run one of the largest health centres in my city – Thank you WCCS for fueling my passion!
My experience in WCCS has been nothing short of amazing and extremely fulfilling. I truly believe that I have become a better chiropractor because of my membership and involvement in WCCS. WCCS has allowed me to gracefully navigate chiropractic related political and philosophical conversations that I would not have been able to before joining
The WCCS gives you opportunity. Opportunity to become a leader, to travel, and to create friendships that will last a lifetime. Being involved in the WCCS was one of the best decisions I made while going through chiropractic school.
My journey in WCCS provided me with plenty of growth opportunities, lasting friendships, and funny memories. It helped me understand chiropractic and who I want to be as a chiropractor. Leading WCCS has been an honour, bringing chiropractic to international healthcare student meetings and facilitating positive discussions on a neutral platform where members can share, discuss, and learn from each other
Being part of the WCCS for my 5 years of chiropractic school really gave me the confidence to be a leader not only in my profession, but also for my community. It gave me a sense of purpose and taught me better than any professor what chiropractic really is. Unity through diversity.
WCCS has set me up for practice success and professional development in many ways. It helped me develop as a Chiropractor, develop long term relationships and deepen my drive to improve our wonderful profession. I have great memories of tackling challenging topics with people I respected, having meaningful discussions with people from different backgrounds and having a lot of fun.
In my mind WCCS is a fundamental part of the chiropractic student experience. To gain perspective on chiropractic globally creates a greater understanding of how your own institution or countries education can differ internationally. The connections and friendships that you make with other chiropractic students who may become future leaders of the profession is hugely valuable.
WCCS was an incredibly transformative experience for me as a student. I was exposed to many different philosophies and viewpoints on chiropractic and how we fit into the healthcare landscape. The AGMs were an amazing chance to meet incredible people and make wonderful new friends, as well as get involved with committees and help advance the future of chiropractic.
The WCCS is nothing but an amazing experience. Interacting with chiropractic students from around the world has opened my knowledge about the profession and its future. I have now graduated, and I still find myself thinking about the things I’ve learned from my experience….a truly unique experience!
My experience with the WCCS has been a starting point for knowledge in leadership, commitment, friendships and professionalism. It is also where I met many extraordinary people – You form bonds within this association that you will cherish for the rest of your life!
The WCCS platform provided me with the opportunity to develop a global awareness of chiropractic by being exposed to every element of this profession. Being involved with the organisation taught me valuable networking skills to educate the public on what chiropractic has to offer. If you are eager to invest in yourself and your future, WCCS is for YOU!
Joining WCCS has been a great experience. From being a chapter member, I became head delegate, European Regional Coordinator and convener for the 2017 European Regional Event. All these roles helped me hugely in developing the skills that I’m still using in my everyday life (leading, organising, public speaking…). I got to travel the world and become friends with people worldwide! Forever grateful!
I am so grateful to have been a part of WCCS. It allowed to me meet chiropractic students from all over the world, learn about chiropractic study and praciticing in different countries. As one of the Americas RCs in 2020/21, it taught me leadership skills and gave me the opportunity and resources to live in another country and practice chiropractic.
The most significant lesson I gained from being part of the WCCS was the principle of unity with respect to diversity. The fact that we connect knowledge that everyone in our lives has diverse needs, expectations and strategies to get their needs met, but when we unify with the things that brings us together, we find a way forward in a way that builds us up rather than separating us.
WCCS has shaped my whole entire career. Since I moved to Australia it shaped how I operated, how I practice and created the success I had in a totally different country. It shaped not only me as a chiropractor, but also me as a person. The biggest leap in my life was moving halfway across the world and being able to have a totally different experience. I would not have achieved that if I did not be part of WCCS and exposed myself to different viewpoints and perspectives of the world, not just in chiropractic.
I highly recommend joining WCCS because it’s a different type of club. It’s going to teach you skills that you didn’t even know you needed – leadership is just one of them. Networking, putting yourself out there and gaining confidence, public speaking, there is a lot of volunteer that can be involved with,…So it’s allowing you to become a well rounded human being, which is super important for the chiropractic field.
Be the change within your profession! Don’t sit and wait for someone else to take initiative. […] The WCCS gave me a platform to grow both as a professional and an individual. Remaining open-minded and having conversations on how to drive this profession forward is one of the greatest skill sets I’ve been able to achieved with this club.