Journals
These journals reflect my weekly experiences as an athletic training student. Each journal reflects either an actual patient contact experience, or something I am working on in my athletic training courses.
My goals for my clinical packet are quiet personal to me. I try to challenge myself a lot, and I get frustrated if I don’t complete the challenge (which is why I pick challenging goals). I am way too competitive even with myself sometimes. One of my favorite goals, which I have used for the past two semesters, is to review each body section a week. The aim for this goal was to make myself have a week dedicated to one body segment and focus on the bony landmark, soft tissue structure, and special tests. In the fall, I was able to review the entire body twice. However, I realized last semester I was missing a little piece that would have helped for my exit interview. I didn’t think about looking at certain injuries and the mechanism at which they occurred. I think this really affected me on my exit last semester. When I was reviewing I never compared different types of injuries or how to differentiate different types of injuries. So over Christmas break, I made flash cards that included step by step process for that certain injury. I think this was a big key in helping me pass my exit over break. I have been reviewing these flash cards along with the bony landmark, soft tissue structure, and special tests. I believe this process is a great way to review all around. I am able to feel more confident in the clinic when performing evaluations, and I am able to start reviewing for my exit interview at the end of the semester. This semester I have slacked a little on this goal. I have been focusing a lot of time on chemistry because I have a test once a week, however, I am still able to review my flash cards and special tests. I think one weakness I have from this goal is I can not perform an evaluation on a person. I am not preforming the special tests on someone and practicing palpating the persons bony and soft tissue landmarks. Although I do have a plan! I know when I am able to start hardcore studying for the exit, I will have other athletic training students to practice going through an evaluation. So I am not fully nervous for the exit since I have been preparing since the first week of school, however, I still have a lot of work to do to make sure I am ready for the interview. I love this goal because its very challenging. I try to take 15 minutes out of each day to sit down and review, but when I don’t have enough time that day, I review every Sunday. I have really challenged myself this semester by making sure each week I sit down and just review as much as I can. Just having a refresher every week is very helpful when I am performing evaluations in the clinic. Lastly, I did not get any attempts of masteries this week because it was spring break!
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April 2019
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