AHS 6045 - Athletic Training Clinical III
9 cr
Students will participate in a clinical immersion experience where for 9 weeks the student’s primary responsibility will be to experience the roles and responsibilities of a full time athletic trainer. This course enables the student to work one-on-one with a preceptor in order to:
- demonstrate proficiency in previously learned athletic training skills through simulated scenarios and
- apply clinical athletic training skills to a real patient population.
Focused proficiencies in this clinical course include: upper extremity evaluation and management, therapeutic interventions implementation, and psychological concerns recognition and management. When demonstrating a clinical proficiency, the student must analyze a problem, consider the facts at hand, and make decisions about the appropriate course of action. During clinical assignments students are expected to practice in an ethical manner and make clinical decisions based on best practice standards. In addition, this course will include a review of the literature and discussion of current evidence based practice for the focused proficiencies assigned.
Prerequisites: AHS 5035
Restrictions: Matriculated into the MAT program
Offered: Fall
Pass/No Pass
There is a fee associated with this course.
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