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pathways and professional opportunities
Demonstrates knowledge of the full spectrum of (ABC) core competencies.
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Demonstrates advanced behaviors across the full spectrum of (ABC) core competencies.
An individual who substantially demonstrates the milestones identified for an athletic trainer who has completed a CAATE accredited professional program and is ready for unsupervised practice.
An individual who demonstrates achievement of the milestones identified for an athletic trainer who has completed a CAATE accredited residency program in a specialty area of practice and exhibits behaviors consistent with an advanced practice clinician.
An individual who substantially demonstrates the milestones of an athletic trainer who has completed a fellowship within a subspecialty and exhibits performance consistent with a specialist within a subspecialty area of clinical practice (e.g., pediatric orthopaedics).
An individual who has advanced beyond the milestones that describe advanced practice, which reflect the competence of an expert or role model and can be used by programs, personnel supervisors, and individuals to facilitate further professional growth.
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Athletic trainers must be able to provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health.
Sub-competencies and milestone-based expectations:Athletic trainers must demonstrate knowledge of established and evolving biomedical, clinical, epidemiological and social-behavioral sciences, as well as the application of this knowledge to patient care.
Sub-competencies and milestone-based expectations:Athletic trainers must demonstrate the ability to investigate and evaluate their care of patients, to appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and to continuously improve patient care based on constant self-evaluation and life-long learning.
Sub-competencies and milestone-based expectations:Athletic trainers must demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that result in the effective exchange of information and collaboration with patients, their families, and health professionals.
Sub-competencies and milestone-based expectations:Athletic trainers must demonstrate a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities and an adherence to ethical principles.
Sub-competencies and milestone-based expectations:Athletic trainers must demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system of health care, as well as the ability to call effectively on other resources in the system to provide optimal health care.
Sub-competencies and milestone-based expectations:Demonstrate the ability to create and document technology strategies and product development plans. Athletic trainers partner with the patient, family, and community to improve health through disease and injury prevention and health promotion.
Demonstrate the ability to assemble resources and infrastructure needed to successfully take technologies to market. Athletic trainers prioritize critical initial stabilization action, and mobilize hospital support services in the resuscitation of a critically ill or injured patient, reassess after stabilizing intervention, and care for acutely ill or injured patients in urgent and emergent situations and in all settings.
Demonstrate capacity to apply lean/agile approaches in the development of organizational mission, strategy and technology product development. Athletic trainers provide integrated, accessible healthcare services as a clinician accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership, and practicing in the context of family and community.
Demonstrate baseline knowledge of business operational elements (finance, legal, operations, resources, marketing, market analysis, manufacturing and supply infrastructure). Athletic trainers must demonstrate the ability to conduct an appropriate diagnostic evaluation to define each patient’s clinical problem and to effectively manage increasingly complex patient problems.
Sub-competencies and milestone-based expectations:Demonstrate competency in leading technology teams. Athletic trainers provide healthcare services that help a person regain physical, mental, and/or cognitive (thinking and learning) abilities that have been lost or impaired as a result of disease, injury, or treatment. These rehabilitation services help people return to daily life and live in a normal or near-normal way.
Generate and visualize data for use as decision making analytics that metric and communicate organizational performance. Athletic trainers perform assessment, and recognition of conditions, that include, but are not limited to, suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety disorder, psychosis, mania, eating disorders, and attention deficit disorders, and effectively manage patients with behavioral health conditions.
Demonstrate the ability to create and document technology strategies and product development plans. Athletic trainers gather and synthesizes essential and accurate information (history, physical exam, lab work, imaging studies, neuropsychological testing, and functional assessments) to define and manage each pediatric patient’s clinical problem(s).
Demonstrate the ability to assemble resources and infrastructure needed to successfully take technologies to market. Athletic trainers develop, implement, and supervise a comprehensive program to maximize sport performance that is safe and specific to the client’s activity, including the selection and use of biometrics/physiological monitoring systems.
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Applications: Segmented application of (ABC) competencies with emphasis on preparing industry experts.
Research: Research focus to generate/disseminate new knowledge.
Athletic trainers working in clinical practice treat a wide variety of patients in a wide variety of settings, including college/university, secondary school, professional sports, clinical and hospital, performing arts, military, public safety, and occupational health. They spend the majority of their time providing athletic training services to patients and clients to optimize and enhance individual and population health and wellness.
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Advanced Practice Doctorate Degree (DAT)
Athletic trainers working in the clinical research industry are often employed by hospitals, physician group practices, or work in higher education as academic faculty members. They spend the majority of their time working collaboratively with patient care providers attempting to answer clinical questions to improve patient care services and, ultimately, patient outcomes.
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Advanced Practice Doctorate Degree (DAT)
Athletic trainers working in lab research are most frequently employed by institutions of higher education as academic faculty members. They spend the majority of their time engaged in basic science or mechanistic research within a specific lab, often focused on exercise science, biomechanics, or motor control, examining hypotheses involving theoretical relationships.
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Research Doctorate Degree (PHD)
Athletic training industry leaders are present across all business sectors, including clinical practice, clinical research, lab research, and education. Industry leaders possess the ability to think long term, strategically, and to plan against larger issues, and use complex analytical and conceptual thinking abilities to leverage their education and experience to influence the direction of their organizations and the athletic training profession.
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Advanced Practice Doctorate Degree (DAT)
Athletic trainers working in education are most frequently employed by institutions of higher education as academic faculty members with varying degrees of emphasis on teaching and research. Depending on the type of institution (liberal arts vs. research intensive) and the nature of the program in which they are teaching (professional vs. post-professional), they spend varying majorities of their time teaching and advising students, conducting research/scholarship, and engaging in professional service.
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Advanced Practice Doctorate Degree (DAT)
An individual who substantially demonstrates the milestones identified for an athletic trainer who has completed a Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE) accredited professional program and is ready for unsupervised practice.
An individual who substantially demonstrates the milestones identified for an athletic trainer who has completed a CAATE accredited residency program in a specialty area of practice and exhibits performance consistent with an advanced practice clinician.
An individual who substantially demonstrates the milestones identified for an athletic trainer who has completed a CAATE accredited professional program and is ready for unsupervised practice.
An individual who demonstrates achievement of the milestones identified for an athletic trainer who has completed a CAATE accredited residency program in a specialty area of practice and exhibits behaviors consistent with an advanced practice clinician.
An individual who substantially demonstrates the milestones of an athletic trainer who has completed a fellowship within a subspecialty and exhibits performance consistent with a specialist within a subspecialty area of clinical practice (e.g., pediatric orthopaedics).
An individual who has advanced beyond the milestones that describe advanced practice, which reflect the competence of an expert or role model and can be used by programs, personnel supervisors, and individuals to facilitate further professional growth.
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