Athletic training interprofessional events 2019-20
Posted: July 10, 2020
During the 2019-20 academic year, the Athletic Training Student Association (ATSA) at A.T. Still University (ATSU) participated in a number of interprofessional events, giving ATSA members an opportunity to work together with different professions and programs across the ATSU community in Mesa, Arizona.
In Fall 2019, members of the ATSA participated in the annual Corbin’s Legacy “Back to School” event. This event was held on ATSU’s Mesa, Arizona, campus, and included volunteers from multiple ATSU programs including physical therapy (PT), physician assistant (PA), occupational therapy (OT). This year, ATSA students coordinated the outdoor “fun zone,” providing a safe and fun environment for free play and games. ATSA students also helped provide orthopedic and movement screenings for the attendees alongside physical therapy students.
In addition to Corbin’s Legacy, ATSA members provided medical coverage at the Hearing Loss Association of Arizona’s Walk for Hearing. ATSA members worked with audiology students from ATSU, professional program athletic training students from Grand Canyon University, and local athletic trainers from the Arizona Athletic Trainers’ Association. Over 350 walkers participated in the fourth annual five-mile walk. To achieve the ATSA’s goal of increasing interprofessional relationships, the ATSA developed a new “lunch and learn” program. Lunch and learn was designed to give programs across ATSU the opportunity to discuss how they would handle different patient case scenarios and to discuss how different professions would be able to collaborate to form better interprofessional relationships. The first session was a lunch and learn on concussion management, held between the audiology and athletic training programs. Students and faculty members discussed the concussion diagnosis process, as well as testing and rehabilitation. A second lunch and learn was held between athletic training and physical therapy programs. Athletic training faculty member Sue Falsone, PT, MS, SCS, ATC, L-AT, CSCS, COMT, RYT, who is dual credentialed as an athletic trainer and physical therapist, spoke about her journey through both professions and gave advice on how each profession can and should collaborate on patient cases.