UTC Graduate Athletic Training Program

UTC GATP Curriculum Objectives:

-Critical Thinking Skills: Development of critical thinking skills that will guide future clinical practice and foster commitment to lifelong continuing education.

-Evidence-based Learning: Provision of classroom instruction that emphasizes scientific foundations for clinical theories and evidence-based clinical decision-making as they relate to entry level competencies.

-Quality Clinical Education: Provision of clinical education experiences that develop clinical proficiencies in AT. Diverse Clinical Opportunities: Expand opportunities for students to obtain clinical experience in industrial worksites and corporate health promotion programs.

-Evidence-based Practice: Integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values and circumstances to make decisions about the care of individual patients.

-Communication Skills: Development of the ability to effectively communicate with both written and oral presentations.

-Technology/Health Care Informatics: The use of information technology to manage clinical data and access the most recent evidence pertaining to optimum patient care.

-Health Care Delivery and Finance: Facilitation of student understanding of the athletic trainer’s evolving role within the U.S. health care delivery system.

-Continuous Quality Improvement: Recognition of the need for constant self-evaluation and life-long learning, including the ability to identify a quality improvement objective, specify changes that are expected to produce an improvement, and quantitatively confirm that an improvement resulted from implementation of the change.

-Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Provide opportunities for interaction with students from different disciplines that will promote development of problem-solving skills.

-Applied Research: Development of the ability to assist, interpret, and report research that will advance the practice of athletic training.

-Professional Conduct: Cultivation of a strong commitment to a high standard of ethical conduct and professional excellence. Personal qualities of honesty, reliability, accountability, patience, modesty, and self-control. Exhibited through ethical behavior, a respectful demeanor toward all persons, compassion, a willingness to serve others, sensitivity to the concerns of diverse patient populations, a conscientious approach to performance of duties, a commitment to continuing education, contributions to the body of knowledge in the discipline, appropriate dress, and maintenance of a healthy lifestyle.

-Leadership: Empowerment of students to assume leadership roles in future professional endeavors.

-Professional Opportunities: Promotion of innovation and entrepreneurship to foster expansion of professional opportunities within the athletic training field.