Training Program Gets National Accredidation, Better Student Jobs
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Issue date: 3/29/07 Section: News
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"There are four specific categories students take part in: equipment intensive [football], lower extremities [track, soccer], upper extremities [baseball, softball] and general medical," Hughes said.
"The rotations are a semester long. Jim Moore, the clinical coordinator, plugs in students where there is a need," said Brian Curless, head athletic trainer.
"Each student has to do at least one rotation in each of the four areas for the core of the program," Curless said.
While 95 percent of the clinical hours are done on campus, Central Family Medical, Inc., is assigned students for the general medical portion, Hughes said.
"Students can also follow the doctors and the health center on campus," Curless said, There's an orthopedist in Sedalia, and they go to the [Central Family] Medical center."
"It's like nursing majors who participate in out-patient, in-patient [and] shadowing doctors," Curless said. "We prepare the students for all they could possibly be exposed to."
This recent accreditation is valid for five years. Then the athletic training program will need to reapply.
Curless said the next review, however, will include the data of students graduating from the program, passing the BOC and getting jobs or going on to graduate school.
"This is our first graduating class in May," Hughes said.
"The success of the first class will propel us for the future," Curless said.
"The rotations are a semester long. Jim Moore, the clinical coordinator, plugs in students where there is a need," said Brian Curless, head athletic trainer.
"Each student has to do at least one rotation in each of the four areas for the core of the program," Curless said.
While 95 percent of the clinical hours are done on campus, Central Family Medical, Inc., is assigned students for the general medical portion, Hughes said.
"Students can also follow the doctors and the health center on campus," Curless said, There's an orthopedist in Sedalia, and they go to the [Central Family] Medical center."
"It's like nursing majors who participate in out-patient, in-patient [and] shadowing doctors," Curless said. "We prepare the students for all they could possibly be exposed to."
This recent accreditation is valid for five years. Then the athletic training program will need to reapply.
Curless said the next review, however, will include the data of students graduating from the program, passing the BOC and getting jobs or going on to graduate school.
"This is our first graduating class in May," Hughes said.
"The success of the first class will propel us for the future," Curless said.
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