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.
Currently, I have not started a critical appraisal in ATR 462, however, we have been critically appraising articles together in class. We were asked to list a few things you would like to know more research about in class, and I picked thoracic outlet syndrome and second impact syndrome. I am not 100% sure my research articles will include this, however, this have really sparked in interest to me, and I would like to know more about the subject. My experience with this has had its ups and downs. When I was first introduced to this project I wasn’t fully aware of what all this included. There is many types of appraisals that go into project. At first, I was really confused on how this worked because I did not understand the concept of the scales because they all seemed so similar to me. After doing extra reading outside of class, I feel like I have a better understanding of what some of these scales consist of. However, I still do not feel very confident with them, but hopefully that will change after we spend more time on them! We have been focusing on the PEDRO scale in class. I feel a little bit more confident with them right now. At first, I was very hesitant with my answers on the PEDRO scale, but I think the more practice with these the more confident I will feel when critically appraising different research. I think the biggest challenge for me is being able to identify if I would consider it a yes or a no on the questions relating to the scales. I am able to find them in the text, but some of the questions began becoming challenging because I wasn’t looking for the correct answer. Brianne also explained if we are able to justify our answers then sometimes it could be a yes or a no. So at first I was a little confused, but I think I am getting a little better at justifying my answers to the questions. I am excited to begin this project because this is something I have never done before while researching. In the past, I have focused on the data of the research articles. I have never actually looked into any type of research before beyond collecting data from it. So this has been something very new to me, and I am excited to learn something new.
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Reflective JournalsThese journal entries express my experience as an athletic training student Archives
April 2019
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