Syllabus

 

I. ATTR 497 Senior Seminar in Athletic Training                                   4 credit hours

 

II. Spring 2004

     Instructor: Amanda Smith, M.Ed., LAT, ATC

 

III.  Office Location:  Turner Arena Athletic Training Room

       Phone: 869-6322

       Office Hours: as posted and by appointment

       Email: asmith@lmunet.edu

 

IV.  Course Prerequisites: All Athletic Training Major Courses

 

V.  Course Description:

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the knowledge of the professional responsibilities and opportunities of the athletic trainer, certified. This course will provide students with hands on experience with a mock NATA written, simulation and oral certification exam.  This course will also provide feedback to students regarding interviewing skills, writing resumes and research papers.

 

VI.  Text: NATA Study Guide

 

VII.  Course Goals and Outcomes
1.  Identify all the components contained within the five domains of the Athletic  Training Profession.

2.      Prepare the student for the NATA-BOC exam

3.      Revisit program competencies.

 

VIII.  Course Objectives

1.      Properly conduct themselves through a job interview.

2.      Complete all proficiencies, checklists and competencies as assigned.

3.      Become familiar with the role and function of the NATA and the governing agencies that regulate the practice of athletic training.

4.      Students will obtain student membership to the NATA.

5.      Students will prepare and present a research paper on a current topic of interest in the field of athletic training.

The following competencies will be covered where applicable to course objectives.

 

1

Health Care Administration:  Cognitive

Describe the organization and administration of pre-participation examination and screening including, but not limited to, maintaining medical records, developing record keeping forms, scheduling personnel, and site utilization.

9

Health Care Administration:  Cognitive

Identifies the process of obtaining state regulatory acts for athletic trainers, and becomes familiar with locally relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.

33

Health Care Administration:  Cognitive

Differentiates the roles and responsibilities of the certified athletic trainer and other medical and allied health personnel to provide care to athletes and others involved in physical activity.

40

Health Care Administration:  Cognitive

Describes the continuing education process for certified athletic trainers as outlined by the NATABOC and ate relationship between continuing education and state athletic training practice acts.

41

Health Care Administration:  Cognitive

Identifies the current developments, missions, objectives, and professional activities of other allied health and medical organizations and professions.

42

Health Care Administration:  Cognitive

Understands the NATA Code of Professional Practice and the NATABOC Standards of Professional Practice.

43

Health Care Administration:  Cognitive

Describes the relationship between the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, Inc. (NATA), NATA Board of Certification, Inc./National Organization for Competency Assurance (NATABOC/NOCA), National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA), and Joint Review Committee-Athletic Training/Commission on the Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (JRC-AT/CAAHEP).

44

Health Care Administration:  Cognitive

Identifies the roles and responsibilities of allied health care personnel in providing services to athletes and others involved in physical activity.

5

Health Care Administration:  Psychomotor

Uses appropriate medical documentation to record injuries and illnesses (client
 encounters, history, progress notes, discharge summary, physician letters,
 treatment encounters).

6

Health Care Administration: Affective

Accepts the professional, ethical, and legal parameters that define the proper role of the certified athletic trainer in the administration and implementation of health care delivery systems.

7

Health Care Administration: Affective

Appreciates the roles and relationship between the NATA, NATABOC/NOCA, NCCA, and JRC-AT/CAAHEP.

12

Health Care Administration: Affective

Recognizes the certified athletic trainer’s role as a liaison between athletes, physically active individuals, caretakers, employers, physicians, coaches, other health care professionals, and any individual who may be involved with the care provided by the certified athletic trainer.

1

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

Compares and contrasts the role and function of state athletic training practice acts and registration, licensure, and certification agencies.

2

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

Explains the basic legislative process for the implementation of practice acts for athletic trainers.

3

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

Defines the rationale for state regulations that govern the practice of athletic training.

4

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

Describes the consequences of violating federal and state regulatory acts.

6

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

Describes the current professional development requirements for the continuing education of certified athletic trainers.

7

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

Locates available, approved continuing education opportunities for certified athletic trainers.

8

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

Describes the role and function of the governing structures of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.

9

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

Differentiates the essential documents of the NATA, including, but not limited to, the Role Delineation Study, the Code of Ethics, JRC-AT Standards and Guidelines, Athletic Training Educational Competencies, and the Standards of  Practice of the Profession.

10

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

Summarizes the position statements regarding the practice of athletic training (NATA, NCAA, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics [NAIA],  National Federation of State High School Associations, American College of Sports Medicine [ACSM], American Academy of Pediatric [AAP], American Academy of Family Physicians [AAFP], American Orthopedic Society for  Sports Medicine [AOSSM]).

11

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

Locates and accesses the current activities and requirements for the professional preparation of the certified athletic trainer (NATA Education Council, JRC-AT, CAAHEP, NATABOC).

12

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

Able to access the professional objectives, scope of practice, and services of other health care providers.

13

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

Distinguishes that issues and concerns regarding the health care of athletes and others involved in physical activity (e.g., public relations, third-party payment, and managed care).

14

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

Properly interprets the role of the certified athletic trainer as a health care provider, and provides information regarding the role of the certified athletic trainer to athletes, the physically active, parents/guardians, athletic department personnel, and others.

15

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

Describes the availability of educational materials and programs in health-related subject matter areas (audiovisual aids, pamphlets, newsletters, computers, software, workshops, and seminars).

16

Professional Development and Responsibilities:          Cognitive

States the principles of planning and organizing workshops, seminars, and clinics in athletic training and sports medicine for health care personnel, administrators, coaches, and general public.

1

Professional Development and Responsibilities:         Affective

Accepts the professional responsibility to satisfy certified athletic trainers’ continuing education requirements.

2

Professional Development and Responsibilities:         Affective

Appreciates the need for and the process and benefits of athletic training regulatory acts (registration, licensure, certification).

3

Professional Development and Responsibilities:         Affective

Realizes that the state regulatory acts regarding the practice of athletic training vary from state to state.

4

Professional Development and Responsibilities:         Affective

Understands the consequences of noncompliance with regulatory athletic training practice acts.

5

Professional Development and Responsibilities:         Affective

Accepts the professional, historical, ethical, and organizational structures that define the proper roles and responsibilities of the certified athletic trainer in providing health care to athletes and others involved in physical.

6

Professional Development and Responsibilities:         Affective

Defends the moral and ethical responsibility to intervene in situations that conflict with NATA  standards.

7

Professional Development and Responsibilities:         Affective

Accepts the function of professional organization position statements that relate to athletic training practice.

8

Professional Development and Responsibilities:         Affective

Advocates the NATA as an allied health professional organization dedicated to athletes and others involved in physical activity.

9

Professional Development and Responsibilities:         Affective

Respects the role and responsibilities of the other health care professions.

10

Professional Development and Responsibilities:         Affective

Appreciates the dynamic nature of issues and concerns as they relate to the health care of athletes and others involved in physical activity.

11

Professional Development and Responsibilities:         Affective

Defends the responsibility to interpret and promote athletic training as a professional discipline among allied-health professional groups and the general public.

12

Professional Development and Responsibilities:         Affective

Accepts the responsibility to enhance the professional growth of athletic training students, colleagues, and peers through a continual sharing of knowledge skills,  values, and professional recognition.

1

Professional Development and Responsibilities:   Psychomotor

1. Demonstrates  the techniques and methods for disseminating injury prevention and health care information to health care professionals, athletes, athletic personnel, parents/guardians, and the general public (e.g.,, via team meetings, parents’ nights, parent/teacher organization [PTO] meetings, booster clubs, workshops, and seminars).

2

Professional Development and Responsibilities:   Psychomotor

Demonstrates the ability to construct a resume.

3

Professional Development and Responsibilities:   Psychomotor

Demonstrates the ability to access the policy-making and governing bodies that regulate the certified athletic trainer (state regulatory boards, NATA, NATABOC)

1

Psychosocil Intervention and Referral:                       Affective

Accepts the professional, ethical, and legal parameters that define the proper role of the certified athletic trainer in providing health care information, intervention, and referral.

2

Psychosocil Intervention and Referral:                       Affective

Accepts the responsibility to provided health care information, intervention, and. Referral consistent with the certified athletic trainer’s professional training.

3

Psychosocil Intervention and Referral:                       Affective

Recognizes the certified athletic trainer’s role as a liaison between the physically active, athletic personnel, health care professionals, parents/guardians, and the public.

 

 

 

 

IX.  Outline of Course Content/Instruction

 

WEEK 1          Course Procedures. Assign Topic for research paper

                        Test 1- 150 multiple choice questions

                        Proficiencies assigned

 

WEEK 2          Role Delineation Study

                        Education Council/JRC-AT

                        Proficiencies Assigned

                        Oral Practicals

 

WEEK 3          Test 2 with oral practical

                        Proficiencies Assigned

 

WEEK 4-10    Orthopedic Assessment/Rehabilitation/ MMT reviews

                        Proficiencies assigned

                        Tests 3 &4

 

WEEK 11        Job Search/Interview Techniques/ Web Searching/Networking

 

WEEK 12        Mock job interview

 

WEEK 13        Complete NATA Mock Exam

 

WEEK 14 & 15           Research presentation, paper due

                                    Complete NATA exam application

 

X.  Required Readings

            Texts, hand-outs, research

 

XI.  Suggested Readings:

            Arnheim, Principles of Athletic Training. 11ed.

Fu, Freddie & David A. Stone. Sports Injuries: Mechanisms, prevention and Treatment.  2nd ed.

            Anderson, M.K, S.J. Hall, & M. Martin. Sports Injury Management.  2nd ed.

            Starkey, C. & J. Ryan. Evaluation of Orthopedic and Athletic Injuries. 2nd ed.

            Journal of Athletic Training

            Journal of Sports Medicine

            Physician and Sports Medicine

 

Examples of research topics;

1.      ACL reconstruction: patellar grafts over hamstring grafts

2.      Heat vs ice in increasing muscular flexibility

3.      Weight training in the pre-pubescent athlete.

4.      Knee injuries due to gender difference

5.      Supplement use and increased risk of injury.

XII. Technological resources:

            SimsMaster, Exam Master, internet

 

XIII.  Methods of Instruction and Learning:

            Computer practice tests and scenarios, lectures, demonstrations, videos, guest         speakers, written evaluations, oral practicals.

 

XIV.  Course Requirements/ Methods of Assessment

1.      Completion of all competencies

2.      Completion of 5 written exams given by instructor

3.      Completion of 2 exams on the Sims Master program

4.      Completion of simulated NATA oral exam

5.      Completion of six practice oral practical exams

6.      Research paper

7.      Job interview

 

XV.  Partnerships: none

 

XVI.  Clinical/Practicum/Laboratory Experiences.

            Team assignments

            Surgical observations

 

XVII.  Possible Portfolio Entries

            Exams

            Proficiencies

 

XVIII.  Date of Revision: 01-04