Member Resource Library

This white paper describes how ATs can intentionally shape their career paths by identifying opportunities for advancement both within and beyond traditional athletic training workplace settings. This includes preparing for roles in leadership, education, research, administration and emerging health care sectors where the skills of ATs are highly valuable

Revenue models contain information that will help ATs maintain and improve their positions by quantifying their worth to the organization. Revenue models include: Secondary School Value Model, College/University Value Model, Physician Practice Value Model and the Public Safety Value Model.

Keeping children and teens healthy and safe is always a top priority. Whether you are a parent, youth sports coach, school coach, school professional, or health care provider, this site will help you recognize, respond to, and minimize the risk of concussion or other serious brain injury.

The CompensATion ConversATion podcast series will focus on what the task force has identified as the five buckets of employment: fundamentals, recruitment, advancement, retention and separation. Each bucket represents a stage in the life cycle of employment and will be used to identify potential strategies to address these issues. Murphy Grant, LAT, ATC, NASM-PES, chair of the task force and host of this series, leads the conversation with athletic trainers of varying levels of experience to break down the five buckets of employment. This episode features three NATA members with unique perspectives on the topic of compensation for athletic trainers: Kenny Boyd, MS, LAT, ATC, a senior associate athletic director for student athlete health and wellness at Baylor University, lends his perspective as an employer in charge of hiring athletic trainers. Ann Wallace, MSEd, ATC, NASM-CES, an associate director of athletic training at the University of Kansas, tells her story from the lens of someone who is in charge of hiring and onboarding new athletic trainers into her program. Emily Mulkey, MS, LAT, ATC, CPT, a staff athletic trainer at Youngstown State University, joins the conversation representing the young professional population to share how she approaches the topic of compensation with her employers. This group will lay the foundation for what will be discussed in the remaining episodes of this series. Tune in for a discussion with ATs across various settings and leave with some actionable items you can use whether you are an employee or employer.

Presentations include: 

1. Acclimatization, Conditioning and Transition Periods (pptx)
2. Asthma in Student Athletes (pptx)
3. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Intercollegiate Athletics (pptx)
4. Caring for a Transgender Patient (pptx)
5. Cold Injuries in Intercollegiate Athletics (pptx)
6. Concussions in Intercollegiate Athletics (pptx)
7. DEIA in Sports Medicine - Equity in Care (pptx)
8. Diabetes Mellitus (pptx)
9. Drug Testing, Supplements and Banned Substances (pptx)
10. Emergency Action Planning (pptx)
11. Exertional Rhabdomyolysis (pptx)
12. Heat Illness in Intercollegiate Athletics (pptx)
13. Independent Medical Care in Intercollegiate Athletics (pptx)
14. Lightning Safety in Intercollegiate Athletics (pptx)
15. Mental Health Best Practices (pptx)
16. Non-Exertional Collapse in Student Athletes (pptx)
17. Pregnancy in Student Athletes (pptx)
18. Relative Energy Deficiency Syndrome (pptx)
19. Sickle Cell Trait and Intercollegiate Athletics (pptx) Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Intercollegiate Athletics (pptx)
20. Suicide Awareness and Prevention (pptx)
21. Suspected Spinal Injury in Intercollegiate Athletics (pptx)

The Concussion Safety Protocol Committee met March 9, 2015, at the NCAA national office. The purpose of the meeting was to define the scope and parameters of the committee, in keeping with the new legislation, and to develop a checklist that outlines the core components for each institution’s concussion management plan. This checklist serves as guidance for the concussion protocols of autonomy Division I member schools as well as the concussion protocols for non-autonomy Division I, Division II and Division III member schools.

The ICSM and the NCAA recognize the challenges associated with mental health care and both agree that mental health is a growing concern. This toolkit, which is composed of five sections, has been prepared based on the best knowledge and mental health availability from the authors and utilizes elements from their respective institution’s mental health policies and procedures.

Provides unique global revenue strategies, a resource for value assessment and serves as a presentation template for the AT in the college/university setting.

Journal of Athletic Training article in which researchers have investigated heterosexuals' attitudes toward homosexuals, focusing on factors such as sex, race, religion, education and contact experiences.