摘要：The educational preparation of athletic training students is a daunting experience for athletic training educators (ATEs) as they are often faced with many external (eg, accreditation, lack of resources) and internal (eg, lack of comfort with a subject area, role strain) challenges. Regardless of these challenges, the success of an athletic training student is a multi-faceted process, derived not only from the experiences they encounter in the academic classroom, but through exposure to diverse patient populations, healthcare providers, and high quality clinical instructors. A student’s success is also obtained by engaging in and modeling the professional behavior of one’s mentor(s), clinical instructor(s), and other well respected professionals.
