Professional Behaviors for Athletic Training Students

摘要

PROFESSIONAL behavior is noted by practice acts and case law to be part of the standard of care expected of health care professionals.12 Safriet2 noted that licensing boards spend much of their time dealing with professional behavior issues rather than clinical competence. Since the publication of the foun-dational behaviors of professional practice in the Athletic Training Educational Competencies (ATEC),3 athletic training (AT) educators must incor-porate opportunities for students to acquire and demonstrate these behaviors. Education programs may be expected to document student outcomes related to these behaviors for maintenance of accreditation.4 Recent literature suggests that many of these professional behaviors are not amenable to assessment at an individual course objective level.5"7 Sailor et al.8 reported several noncognitive factors that clinical instructors felt interfered with an AT student's success.