AT 584 - Athletic Training Clinical Education IV

(2 units)

Prerequisite(s): AT 583
Fourth of four athletic training clinical education experiences. Curricular content standards are integrated to practical application of knowledge, development of clinical skills, clinical decision making ability, and professional responsibility in a practice setting. Clinical education experience focuses on the evaluation, treatment/intervention, acute care, long term management, and return to participation for common systemic non-orthopedic pathologies, illnesses, and conditions in practice settings utilizing critical judgment, problem solving, clinical reasoning, and evidence which focuses on comprehensive, authentic, real-time opportunities to practice, make decisions, and demonstrate professional behaviors required of the profession.

Supervised experience under the direction of a Preceptor(s) consisting of two (2) separate continuous eight (8) week sessions. Session I is an immersive clinical education experience which is a full-time practice-intensive experience that allows the totality of care experience provided by athletic trainers in day to day operations. (Clinical education hour requirement: Minimum of 320 hours). Session II is characterized at 30 hours per week (Clinical education hour requirement: Minimum of 240 hours / Maximum of 280 hours). A campus clinical education meeting (2 hours) is held weekly.

Letter Grade Only (A-F) Not applicable