Curriculum

This course is designed to enhance students' knowledge, skills, and practice in development and implementation of evidence based emergency care plans. Current Position and Consensus Statements on Sudden Death in Sports, Exertional Heat Stroke, Emergency Planning, Care of the Spine Injured Athlete, Lightning Safety in Athletics, and others will be reviewed, critically discussed and practiced.

Instruction of human anatomy for the athletic training professional. Focus will be placed on anatomy of structures and function related to athletic injuries. Emphasis is placed on relationship of structure and normal variants with clinical correlation to pathology to injury and illness. Prerequisite: Take AT-500 and AT-552
Prerequisite: Take AT-500 and AT-552

This clinical skills course focuses on the concept and use of scientific assessment methods to recognize and evaluate the nature and severity of athletic injuries. The primary focus is on an introduction to patient history and physical examination, musculoskeletal palpation, taping and bracing, injury prevention concepts, and documentation.

Utilizing the injury-response cycle as a foundation for clinical decision-making, this course prepares students to investigate and analyze indications, contraindications, set-up procedures for therapeutic agents, including pharmacological influences that aid the healing of injury, and assistance in the rehabilitation process among the active population. Students will develop the ability to formulate clinical questions and identify best practice procedures for common medical conditions. Students will explore outcome measures to guide clinical decision-making based on principles of evidence-based practice, research skills and scientific writing. In addition, students will obtain clinical experience under the supervision and guidance of an approved preceptor.
Prerequisite: Co-Req. AT-554 and AT-576

This course will focus on injury prevention techniques, injury evaluation processes, and injury management and treatment for lower extremity pathologies. Students will become proficient in taping, wrapping, bracing, evaluation procedures (subjective assessments, observation assessments, palpations, range of motion assessments, strength assessments, neurovascular examinations, and special tests), therapeutic modalities, and therapeutic exercises in the treatment of lower extremity pathologies. Co-Req. AT-532 and AT-576
Prerequisite: Co-Req. AT-532 and AT-576

This course will focus on the recognition and management of head and spine pathologies. Students will become proficient in the identification of pre-disposing conditions as well as potential sequelae associated head pathologies. Prerequisite: Co-Req. AT-532 and AT-554
Prerequisite: Co-Req. AT-532 and AT-554;

This course is designed to develop essential skills for conducting evidence-based practice. Through exploration of literature, patient's values and clinical experience, students will identify best practices for clinical application as it relates to assessment and treatment of the lower extremity. Through a problem-based model, students will develop the ability to formulate clinical questions, to search for and select relevant literature, and to analyze the clinical applicability and validity of the results. In addition, students will obtain clinical experience under the supervision and guidance of an approved preceptor. Prerequisite: Pre-Req. AT-532
Prerequisite: Pre-Req. AT-532

This course will focus on injury prevention techniques, injury evaluation processes, and injury management and treatment for upper extremity pathologies. Students will become proficient in taping, wrapping, bracing, evaluation procedures (subjective assessments, observation assessments, palpations, range of motion assessments, strength assessments, neurovascular examinations, and special tests), therapeutic modalities, and therapeutic exercises in the treatment of lower extremity pathologies. Prerequisite: Pre-Req. AT-554
Prerequisite: Pre-Req. AT-554

This course will provide students with an understanding of public health and the healthcare professional's role in the healtcare system, including the use of epidemiology to understand and solve issues in healtcare. Social and behaioral health topics will also be examined, including the identification, referral, and provision of support to patients with behavioral health conditions.
Prerequisite: Pre-Req. AT-532

This course is designed to develop essential skills for conducting evidence-based practice. Through exploration of research literature, patient's values and clinical experience, students will identify best practices for clinical application as it relates to assessment and treatment of the upper extremity assessment. This course develops the student's ability to formulate clinical questions, to search for and select relevant literature, and to analyze the clinical applicability and validity of the results through a problem based model. In addition, students will obtain clinical immersion experience under the supervision and guidance of an approved preceptor.
Prerequisite: Pre-Req. AT-533

This course will focus on fundamental principles of administration and evaluation of the delivery of athletic training services in the context of the larger health care system. Discussion of administrative and professional practice concerning operations and strategies to achieve best patient outcomes.

This course focuses on injury/illnesses and diseases and presents an opportunity for students to acquire the necessary evaluation skills needed to provide immediate treatment or referral. Discussions center on general medicine topics: etiology, pathology, clinical evaluation, medical management, and prognosis of common types of musculoskeletal, reproductive, cardiovascular, visceral and neurological injury and disease. Students will also participate in a general medicine clinical rotation.
Prerequisite: Co-Req. AT-634

Evaluation of the quantitative and clinical approaches to research in applied medical fields, including identifying problems, generating clinical questions; interpreting, accessing, evaluating, and integrating relevant literature as well as their own clinical experience. A prospectus including a full review of the literature and study design will be the end-product of the course.
Prerequisite: Pre-Req. AT-532

This course is a clinical immersion experience intended to expose students to the athletic trainer's full scope of clinical practice.

This course will explore and integrate a variety of professional development behaviors and leadership qualities necessary in the field of athletic training. An introduction to administrative and professional practices will be discussed including leadership, continuing education, development of policies/procedures, and conflict resolution. Students will also gain an understanding of continuing competency within the profession of athletic training.
Prerequisite: Take AT-634

This course will allow students to discuss and apply contemporary and holistic approaches to patient care, among all settings. Students will explore interdisciplinary approaches to healthcare education and clinical practice. In addition, students obtain clinical experience under the supervision and quidance of an approved preceptor.
Prerequisite: Pre-Req. AT-634

Patient-oriented outcomes is designed to enhance the athletic training clinician's ability to employ clinician-based and patient-based clinical outcome measures for the determination of effective athletic training services through the practice of providing patient-centered whole person healthcare. Discussion of disablement models and outcomes research as the foundations to evidence-based practice will be provided. The use of disablement models as a framework for whole person healthcare and the evaluation of health-related quality of life will be presented.
Prerequisite: Pre-Req. AT-555

Students will continue to interpret, assess, evaluate, and integrate relevant research related to their capstone project. Completion of this course will culminate in presentation of finalized research.
Prerequisite: Pre-Req. AT-698