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The Technical Standards are
designed to protect the health and well-being
of all Athletic Training students and the patients/athletes
with whom they work. All Athletic Training students
are expected to have abilities in five categories:
observation, communication, motor, intellectual,
and social. These abilities enable the student
to perform tasks required to meet graduation and
professional requirements as measured by state
and national certification processes. Reasonable
accommodation will be considered for persons with
documented disabilities on an individual basis;
however, students must be able to perform in an
independent manner.
These standards are expectations
of all Athletic Training students enrolled in
the sophomore year through senior years. All students
will be expected to perform certain physical,
mental, and emotional tasks in order to complete
graduation and professional requirements as measured
by state and national certification processes.
Any student who feels he/she does not possess
one or more of the enumerated skills should seek
assistance from an academic or faculty advisor,
and the Learning Skills Center, and must notify
and work with the Office of Freshman Development
and Special Student Services. It is the student's
responsibility to notify both the RSHS and his/her
respective department of any accommodations which
may be necessary.
Any student who, after reasonable
accommodations, cannot perform the essential skills
may not be admitted or permitted to continue in
their respective program. The following indicators
are required, with or without accommodation:
Observation: Candidates must have sufficient sensory
capacity to observe in the lecture setting, the
laboratory, and the health care or community setting.
Sensory abilities must be adequate to perform
the appropriate physical examination or assessment
including functional vision, hearing, and tactile
sensation to observe a patient's condition and
to elicit information appropriate to the particular
discipline.
Communication: Students must be able to communicate
effectively and professionally in academic, community,
and health care settings and be able to demonstrate
proficiency in both verbal and written English.
Motor
Students must have the ability to participate
in basic diagnostic and therapeutic maneuvers
and procedures. Motor function must be adequate
to fully execute movements required to provide
patient care including dependent transfer of an
individual. Students must be able to negotiate
patient care environments required in their particular
discipline and be able to move between settings
such as the classroom, health care facility or
community setting. Some physical tasks require
the ability to transfer the equivalent of an adult
human's body weight. Physical stamina sufficient
to complete the rigorous course of didactic and
clinical study is required. Long periods of sitting,
standing, or moving are required in a variety
of learning sites.
Intellectual
Students
must be able to measure, calculate, reason, analyze,
and integrate information as well as be able to
comprehend spatial relationships of structures.
Social
Students
must exercise good judgement and be able to function,
appropriately and effectively, in the face of
uncertainties inherent in clinical practice and
must maintain mature, sensitive and effective
professional relationships with faculty, students,
patients and other members of the health care
team.
* This list of Technical Standards/Performance Indicators
is an excerpt from the current edition of the RSHS Academic
Student Handbook.
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