This has been a very challenging spring for athletic training programs and higher education in general due to the COVID-19 crisis. By now, you have made it through the spring semester, teaching on-line and are planning for Summer and Fall classes. The only certainty in our plans for the Fall semester is uncertainty. Will…
Author: Micki Cuppett
Is your AT program ready for the CAATE 2020 Standards?
The recent CAATE update presented at the Athletic Training Educator’s Conference and each of the NATA district meetings entitled Change is Here talks about the 2020 standards that will soon be in effect. Is your AT program ready for those Standards? How is your “framework” coming along? Have you mapped the content…
Why
Rick Burkholter challenged fellow athletic trainers during this AT month to write about “why” they became an athletic trainer. Like so many others, I became an AT because I wanted to make a difference. To watch those patients you have helped to get back to work, life, and sport is very gratifying. To be a…
Athletic Training Month
March is Athletic Training Month. The theme for 2019 is “ATs ARE Health Care!" It is great to see athletic trainers advocate for the profession and “declare” that ATs are Health Care during this month. But what about the rest of the year? Do you demonstrate that you are part of the health care…