Athletic Training - Culver - Stockton College

Athletic Training from Culver - Stockton College is a Campus Bachelor Physical Therapy degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. Culver-Stockton College offers a bachelor's of science degree with a major in athletic training, which is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE). Successful completion of this program will provide eligibility for students to take the Board of Certification examination. Accreditation standards require formal admission into this program; therefore, students must be formally admitted before registering for any athletic training courses above the 100 level. Students must complete 43 hours of coursework for the bachelor's degree, as well as a prescribed course of clinical experience. You will grow from observing and interacting with other health care professionals to demonstrating your own proficiency in preventing, recognizing, assessing, treating and rehabilitating injuries related to sports activities. You will work with athletic teams and in a variety of clinical settings. You also will learn general safety and health issues that can cause injury or affect performance. Plus, you will gain the typical organizational and administrative knowledge needed by athletic trainers. Small classes (about 8:1) provide for intensive learning where the demands on you are high but in which you benefit from extensive personal attention. The athletic training educational program is a rigorous and intense. It places specific requirements and demands on students. The technical standards establish the essential qualities considered necessary for students admitted to this program to achieve the knowledge, skills, and competencies of an entry-level athletic trainer, as well as meet the expectations of the program's accrediting agency. Successful completion of the athletic training major provides practical skills and useful knowledge for students wanting to pursue a career in preventing, recognizing, assessing, treating and rehabilitating injuries related to sports activities. Students must meet admission and technical standards to be accepted into the program. The program allows students to gain valuable hands-on training in both the classroom as well as in a variety of clinical environments. Athletic training majors often combine this major with pre-physical therapy, pre-med or biology. What can I do with this major? If you are interested in working with athletes and athletic teams at all levels, then you will find a career in athletic training satisfying. Completion of this course prepares you to become a certified athletic trainer. Athletic training majors have several career options working with physicians and other allied health care personnel in educational settings, professional sports programs, sports medicine clinics, and other health care settings. For example, recent graduates have gone on to graduate school at Georgia State and Kansas University, entered physical therapy school at Southwest Baptist University, or taken jobs at Advance Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine, Quincy, Ill., or Quincy Medical Group Sports and Rehab, Quincy, Ill. View more details on Culver - Stockton College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Physical Therapy courses.