Integrating Public Health Content in Athletic Training Curriculum

Integrating Public Health Content in Athletic Training Curriculum

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Abstract:
The CAATE Curricular Standards and BOC 8th Edition Practice Analysis include items that intersect with public health concepts and practice. To support athletic training educators’ ability to maintain compliance with CAATE Standards and successfully prepare entry-level athletic trainers, the NATA Athletic Training and Public Health Taskforce developed the ATPH Educator’s Toolkit as a robust and adaptable resource for AT educators to integrate public health content into AT education programs. This lecture will introduce the toolkit and associated implementation guide and examples of public health content modules, including social determinants of health, injury/disease prevention and policy development.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify alignments in athletic training education and public health content areas. 
  • Identify opportunities to imbed public health content in athletic training curriculum.  
  • Discuss strategies to generate buy-in with a variety of stakeholders. 

Level:
Advanced

Domain(s):
Domain 5: Health Care Administration and Professional Responsibility

CEUs:
0.5 Category A

Track: Program Administration
Format: Lecture

In order to earn your CEUs, you must watch the session video in its entirety and complete the assessment.

Hayley Root, PhD, MPH, ATC

Hayley Root is an Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University in the Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training located at the Phoenix Biosciences Core campus. My research leverages implementation science and community-based participatory research strategies to empower athletes, clinicians, and organizations to use best practice evidence that improves health outcomes and healthcare equity. This work crosses many areas of athletic healthcare but I primarily focus on musculoskeletal injury prevention and physical literacy development.

Katie Sniffen, PhD, ATC

Katie Sniffen, PhD, ATC is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Master of Athletic Training (MAT) Program at Saint Louis University (SLU) and has been a part of the SLU MAT Program since 2017. Dr. Sniffen has an additional six years of clinical experience providing quality, affordable, and accessible health care to collegiate student-athletes at the University of Oregon and Pepperdine University. She obtained a BS in Athletic Training from California State University, Long Beach; a MS from the University of Oregon’s Post-Professional Athletic Training Program; and a PhD in Public Health Studies: Health Outcomes Research from Saint Louis University. 

Dr. Sniffen is an active volunteer and leader on state, district, and national committees for both the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and the American Public Health Association. Dr. Sniffen’s research interests reside in demonstrating the value of athletic training services on the health of populations through the application of health outcomes research, as well as in injury prevention and risk mitigation.

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