Health, Sport, and Exercise Sciences
Health, Sport and Exercise Sciences
Robinson Center, Rm. 104
1301 Sunnyside Drive
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045-2378
phone: (785) 864-0783
fax: (785) 864-3343
hsesinfo@ku.edu
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| Left to Right: Whitney Ryan - Senior Leadership Award; Drew Hutchinson - Prospective Student Award; Peter Meier - Deaner/Jayhawk Award, and Junior Class High GPA; Andrew Hauser - Senior Leadership Award; Tiffany Jeffers - Senior Class High GPA |
Applications for AT program - Due May 1, 2008(pdf)
Student Policy and Procedure Manual (pdf)
Clinical Site Emergency Action Plans (pdf)
The
Athletic Training program prepares students for a career as an allied-health
professional and prepares them for the BOC examination, the examination
leading to certification and the credential of a certified athletic trainer.
Students in this program study the concepts and skills to properly manage the
health care problems associated with physical activity. In cooperation with
physicians and other health care personnel, the athletic trainer functions as
an integral member of the health care team in secondary schools, colleges and
universities, professional sports, sports medicine clinics, and other health
care settings. The athletic trainer’s professional preparation is directed
toward the development of specified competencies in the following domains: injury
prevention and risk management, pathology of injuries and illnesses, assessment
and evaluation, acute care of injury and illness, pharmacology, therapeutic
modalities, therapeutic exercise, general medical conditions, nutritional aspects
of injury and illness, psychosocial intervention and referral, professional
development and responsibilities, and health care administration.
All
students complete 49 hours of general education requirements and a 9 hour sport
foundation core. Once admitted to the program, students engage in a 68-hour
core curriculum. This includes four 4-hour practicum courses in athletic training
where students participate in the clinical education aspect of the curriculum.
Clinical education represents the students’ formal acquisition, practice,
application, and evaluation of the Entry-Level Athletic Training Clinical Proficiencies
through classroom, laboratory, clinical and field experiences under the supervision
of a clinical instructor. The clinical and field experiences include the opportunity
for students to apply related skills in the context of direct patient care at
one of our clinical affiliate sites, which includes area high schools, clinics,
and collegiate settings. The student shall make arrangements to reserve his/her
afternoons for clinical education. This entails approximately 20 hours per week
of learning, practicing, and applying specific clinical skills in a practical
setting. Students are responsible for demonstrating the clinical skills learned
in the lecture classes on real or simulated patients in the field during the
field experience. Students will work under the supervision of a clinical instructor
during the field and clinical experiences, and will acquire and master the skills
necessary of the entry-level athletic trainer.
A minimum of 126 credit hours with a cumulative grade-point average of at least 2.5 is required for graduation.
The Athletic Training education program is non-discriminatory with respect to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, creed, and veteran status.
Athletic Training Seniors Aid Hundreds of Walkers Even for a good cause, putting 1,100 people on foot for 60 miles in three days makes for the walking wounded. It was enough to spur 10 University of Kansas athletic training students and faculty to lend their expertise to the allvolunteer support crew Sept. 15- 17 for the Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk in the Kansas City area. Two KU athletic training faculty members, David Carr, assistant professor, and Phillip Vardiman, lecturer, together with eight KU students were among the 255 on the volunteer support crew for the duration of the walk. Vardiman was onroute for all three days; Carr was there Sept. 15. Each student worked at least one full day. It was the first time KU School of Education students majoring in athletic training in the Health, Sport and Exercise Sciences program helped as a group with the Breast Cancer 3-Day benefit. KU athletic training student volunteers were: Kristan Olson, Shelby Plummer, Jamie Hearn, Carrie Brown, Chris Carpenter, Matt Lovelady, Cassie Gutman, and Pat McGinn. The Kansas City event raised $2.8 million for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the National Philanthropic Breast Cancer Fund. It is one of 12 Breast Cancer 3-Day fundraisers scheduled across the country from August to November 2006 and the second year it has been held in Kansas City. Often motivated by a friend or family member who has dealt with breast cancer, each walker paid a $90 entry fee and raised a minimum of $2,200. The KU athletic training volunteers used their expertise to help treat the walkers’ aches and pains, heat exhaustion on two 90-plus-degree sunny days, blisters, limps, cramps and other injuries and discomforts. They assisted on teams that provided basic first aid, athletic taping, blister care, evaluations and treatment as needed with medical issues. The walk started at 6:30 a.m. Sept. 15 at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan. Participants spent their days walking and their nights encamped, either at Shawnee Mission Park in Shawnee or, when storms threatened, in a nearby warehouse. They dealt with varied landscapes that included rural roadways, suburban neighborhood streets, historic districts and urban shopping areas in Wyandotte and Johnson counties, plus the Country Club Plaza and Westport areas of Kansas City, Mo. Supportive messages and cheering boosters lined the entire route offering encouragement all the way to fi nal ceremonies late Sept. 17 at the Liberty Memorial in midtown Kansas City, Mo. The students, when asked what the most rewarding part of the day, said: Helping women who thought they couldn’t walk the next day so they were able to continue…One woman cried when I treated her blisters and made her sister take a picture of us for her scrapbook. Jamie Hearn When you heard some of the stories of why the people walked…It was pretty amazing to see what these people went through to raise the money. Chris Carpenter You could tell the women and men really appreciated having us there. The look on their faces when they finished this walk was really cool, even though they were blistered and aching, they were very proud. Cassie Guttman Helping to keep these women out on the course despite their various injuries. Regardless of our help, I have a feeling these women would have kept walking, that’s just how determined they were to finish what they set out to do. To make them more comfortable while they did it made me feel like I was a part of the event. Pat McGinn Top photo: Pat McGinn treats a walker.
Above: Carrie Brown (left) and Cassie Gutman treat two weary walkers.
Back Row, l-r: Pat McGinn, Chris Carpenter, Matt Lovelady, Phill Vardiman. Front Row: Cassie Gutman, Kristan Olson, Carrie Brown, Jamie Hearn, Shelby Plummer. Visit the Athletic Training Web Site http://at.soe.ku.edu --University Relations Last modified on Oct 05, 10:20 |
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