National Athletic Trainers’ Association launches collegiate standard of care toolkit
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Key takeaways:
- Alongside partner organizations, the National Athletic Trainers’ Association launched a collegiate standard of care toolkit.
- The toolkit includes more than 1,000 resources related to student-athlete health care.
At its annual clinical symposia, the National Athletic Trainers’ Association launched an inter-association collegiate standard of care toolkit to ensure the health and safety of college and university athletes.
Spearheaded by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) and supported by the American Academy of Sports Physical Therapy, American Medical Society for Sports Medicine and American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, the toolkit includes 16 standard of care domains with more than 1,000 educational resources for collegiate athletic trainers at every level, according to panelists at the meeting.
“As we went into the project, the goal was to try to identify every consensus statement, every position paper, every bit of information that's out there so that the athletic trainer can sleep easier at night knowing that they can look to find the resources,” Tory R. Lindley, MA, ATC, past president of NATA and deputy athletics director at Youngstown State University, said during a panel at the meeting. “We had no idea what we would end up with; but with over 1,000 resources in our resource library that are connected directly to each one of the over 500 standards, we feel great about what we've created.”
Peter A. Indelicato, MD, past president of the AOSSM and emeritus professor of sports medicine and orthopedic surgery at the University of Florida, said that the toolkit has tremendous educational value.
“We realize that one of our main missions is education,” Indelicato said. “We believe that this toolkit has an extreme amount of merit and utility and can be a tremendous resource for not only learning, but for looking up references and fact-checking as well.”
Launched for participation of collegiate institutions, Lindley said data from the toolkit will be available later this year.
“This will continue to be a project that we will all continue to work hard on but that we will all be proud of,” Lindley said. “We can go to sleep a bit easier each night knowing where the mileposts are and knowing that we [can] take care of a lot of student athletes. And, hopefully, their moms and dads feel better about the care that we're undertaking and how important advancing health care is to all of us.”
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An interprofessional declaration of collegiate standards of health care. Presented at: National Athletic Trainers’ Association Annual Clinical Symposia; June 21-24, 2023; Indianapolis.
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