Upstanders and Bystanders: Carving our Professional Future through Education

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This presentation is a replay from ATEC 2019, offering a second chance to experience the event's valuable content and insights.

Abstract:
Innovative education requires courage and leadership. The Leadership Model for Social Change encourages leadership and service to create positive change through an inclusive educational process. This iterative model emphasizes the role of community, group and individual values in the change process and has broad implications for athletic training education. Contemporary educational initiatives emphasize the role of becoming an upstander rather a bystander to promote positive change. Educators in athletic training need to become upstanders rather than bystanders to take control of our future in the healthcare arena. Through strong and focused educational programming, including rigorous clinical application, athletic trainers can become upstanders take a proactive role in engaging in innovative clinical outreach including internationalization and service learning despite risks. By becoming upstanders, athletic trainers can engage in substantive dialogue to create a sense of community and commitment by influencing the profession and others in the healthcare professions. Athletic trainers should carefully consider creative curricular innovations uniquely customized to prepare graduate students to emerge as cutting edge professionals. Athletic trainers should reach out to other health care professionals to evaluate and consider alternative curricular design programs designed so that inter-professional and innovative models emerge. Lastly, athletic trainers should become engaged and informed creators and consumers of educational research to promote best practices in clinical and didactic education. The purpose of this presentation is to introduce the Social Change Model of Leadership as a tool for promoting upstander behavior to create innovative opportunities in athletic training education and clinical practice.

Objectives:

  • Participants will be able to integrate the fundamental premise of the Leadership Model for Social Change to create innovative athletic training educational practices, 
  • Participants will be able to synthesize the construct of upstander behaviors to create opportunities for cutting-edge clinical practice opportunities for athletic trainers, 
  • Participants will be able to create educational meaning through innovative and authentic clinical practice to continue to carve a place for athletic trainers in the ever-changing health care culture.

Level:
Advanced

Domains:
Domain 5: Health Care Administration and Professional Responsibility

CEUs:
0.75 Category A

Keywords: upstander, inclusive, DEIA, social change, Social Change Model of Leadership, culture, leadership

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Malissa Martin, EdD, AT

Dr. Malissa Martin holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Education and Athletic Training from Indiana State University. She earned a Master of Science in Health Education and Doctor of Education, with an emphasis in Curriculum Instruction and Alcohol Drug Studies, from the University of South Carolina.

Dr. Martin has served as the head women’s athletic trainer at the University of South Carolina where she developed and directed the first accredited athletic training education program in the Palmetto State. She held similar administrative roles at Middle Tennessee State University and Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Her footprint in education for her exceptional contributions to her profession earned her the highest honor as a member of the most prestigious group of athletic trainers in this country, the National Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame. The NATA Hall of Fame is reserved for those few individuals who have demonstrated a lifetime commitment to the profession and are recognized as distinguished leaders in the field. 

Dr. Martin also holds the illustrious recognitions of NATA Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer, Sayers Bud Miller Distinguished Athletic Training Educator, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions’ Excellence in Teaching Award, the Greater Lakes Athletic Training Education Award, the Southeast Athletic Trainer’s Educator and Administrator Award, and is a recipient of the NATA Professional Development Award. Dr. Martin is a two-time recipient of the RMU Presidential Award.

Known in the athletic training profession as a renowned educator and for her work with professional development, Dr. Martin authored over 100 articles, books, home study programs, and grants. She has taken the platform for over 120 national and regional presentations and workshops. Dr. Martin serves on the editorial board for the Athletic Training Education Journal and the International Journal of Athletic Therapy and Training. Her research interests include various topics in education and female health issues.

During her tenure at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions, Dr. Martin has led the charge in developing and administering a “Teaching Effectiveness Program,” an inaugural “faculty development program,” a program assessment process, a certificate in “learning and design in healthcare education,” and has guided and mentored over 80 current students and alumni in completing a terminal degree and becoming stewards of their discipline, scholars, and leaders in the profession and academic community.

Kimberly Peer, Ed.D., ATC, FNATA

A 2024 Inductee to the NATA Hall of Fame, Dr. Kimberly Peer is a Full Professor at Kent State University in the MS: Athletic Training and EdD: Interprofessional Leadership programs. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Athletic Training Education Journal and has served the NATA, BOC, CAATE, REF and Ohio Athletic Trainers’ Association in extensive leadership roles. 

Dr. Peer has been lauded with national, regional, and state level awards for her contributions to the profession and athletic training education, including but not limited to, NATA Fellow and Most Distinguished, National Academies of Practice Distinguished Fellow, OATA Hall of Fame, GLATA Outstanding Educator, and NATA Sayers “Bud” Miller Distinguished Educator Award, and most recently, the Gail Weldon Award of Excellence. 

Kimberly has presented on the international and national levels on ethics education and pedagogy. She has published extensively and has co-authored textbooks on professional ethics in athletic training and athletic training pedagogy.

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