24 courses with the subject ATH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ATH 500Prevention and Care of Emergency Medical Conditions3
This course will teach athletic training students recognition, evaluation, and treatment of emergent medical conditions. This will include basic skills required for injury prevention, treatment and recovery as it relates to physically active populations.
This course educates and expands on theories and application of therapeutic modalities utilized in athletic training. Focus includes clinical decision making and evidence based utilization of modalities in pain modulation and treatment of acute and chronic conditions.
This course will introduce athletic training students to various aspects of professional practice as it relates to athletic training including historical aspects of the profession, ethics, documentation and collaboration with other healthcare professions to optimize patient outcomes.
This course teaches athletic training students a systematic evaluative process including techniques involved in the assessment of orthopedic and neurological conditions of the lower extremity, pelvis, and lumbar spine.
This course teaches athletic training students a systematic evaluative process including techniques involved in the assessment of orthopedic and neurological conditions of the upper extremity, torso, head, thoracic, and cervical spine.
ATH 505Medical Management of an Athletic Population3
This course teaches recognition, evaluation, management, and treatment of non- orthopedic medical conditions that affect physically active populations.
Theories, concepts and psychomotor skills in the appropriate application and utilization of therapeutic exercise in the rehabilitation of musculoskeletal injuries.
Students acquire a scientific and physiological rationale, selection criteria, indications and contraindications of exercise, and return to activity guidelines. Techniques and skills provided in both classroom and lab experiences will address range of motion, strengthening, proprioception, cardiovascular fitness, joint-specific and sport specific protocols. CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 229
The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of drugs commonly used to treat patients seen by persons working in health science professions. Medical reasons for drug treatment, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of various medications, and adverse effects are presented. Specifically emphasized are drugs affecting the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, nervous, endocrine, and gastrointestinal systems.
This course will introduce the fundamentals of research design and interpretation, including basic statistical analysis. Students will identify, locate and appraise current literature related to athletic training and determine how it applies to clinical practice.
This course will introduce the fundamentals of qualitative research design and other topics including disablement models, clinical prediction rules, patient oriented outcomes. Students will gain an understanding of qualitative research and its applicability in the Athletic Training profession.
This course will promote student analysis and summary of quantitative research as it relates to athletic training. Students will develop a research question, search literature, summarize and make evidence based clinical recommendations stemming from their research.
ATH 512Clinical Experience in Athletic Training I3
This course is designed to allow students to review and demonstrate lower extremity and lumbar spine injury evaluations, foundational athletic training skills, modality implementation and emergency management techniques through the completion of a 12-week clinical education experience of approximately 240 clinical hours. Additional Fee(s): Course fee
ATH 513Clinical Experience in Athletic Training II3
This course is designed to allow students to develop clinical proficiency in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of upper extremity dysfunction, demonstrate therapeutic exercise and modality applications through the completion of a 15-week clinical education experience of approximately 240 hours. Additional Fee(s): Course fee
ATH 514Clinical Experience in Athletic Training III2
This course is designed to expose students to common non-orthopedic medical conditions present in physically active patients across the lifespan. Students will complete experiences collaborating with other health care providers in local primary or urgent care clinics through the completion of an 8- week clinical education experience approximately 160 hours. Additional Fee(s): Course fee
ATH 515Clinical Experience in Athletic Training IV4
This course is designed to develop and enhance the practical skills and knowledge necessary for clinical practice, develop student clinical proficiency in all areas of the athletic training profession and facilitate increasing levels of autonomous practice through completion of a student selected 10-week fully immersive clinical education experience approximately 320 hours. Additional Fee(s): Course fee CHATHAM UNIVERSITY CATALOG: 2026-2027 230
ATH 516Clinical Experience in Athletic Training V3
This course is designed to develop and enhance the practical skills and knowledge necessary for clinical practice, develop student clinical proficiency in all areas of the athletic training profession and facilitate increasing levels of autonomous practice through completion of a student selected 10-week immersive clinical education experience approximately 240 hours. Additional Fee(s): Course fee
This course will address administration responsibilities, policies, and procedures as they relate to the athletic training profession. Focus will be placed on legal and ethical practices, budget, record keeping, facility design and budget as well as job seeking, and interview skills.
This course explores the concepts of assessing, designing, and implementing specialized performance programs to address the health and performance goals of the athletes. The primary focus is on movement instruction, nutrition, energy systems, program design and concepts of strength and conditioning.
This course provides students the opportunity to examine advanced issues that shape the athletic training profession through practical application and professional development. Emphasis is placed on surgical techniques, radiological concepts and interpretation, laboratory reports, interpreting imaging, and lifespan issues and advanced treatment procedures used in diverse settings.
This course is designed to prepare students for the Board of Certification Examination and for becoming licensed to practice as an athletic trainer. Through the use of self-assessments, students will identify areas of strengths and weaknesses, create tailored study plans, and complete practice examinations.
This course discusses scientifically founded sports nutrition including macro nutrients, energy expenditure in sport and exercise, dietary requirements pre-activity, during and post activity, ergogenic aids and nutritional supplements in a variety of active populations. Various diets and their implications/impact on the body will also be discussed.
This course will discuss the historic development, organization and characteristics of health care delivery systems, payment and reimbursement systems, accrediting agencies applicable to athletic training, organizational patterns of health care facilities, medical staff organization and bylaws; and the athletic training profession from its initiation to the present and future.