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.
When I need help, I look to a lot of professors and preceptors. There are some staff members who have helped me throughout my 3 years at Emory. Depending on the situation is who I go to for help. If I need help with one of my athletic training classes, I usually go to Beth or Melissa. I started going to them my first semester of sophomore year because there were things I just couldn’t grasp. They were able to guide in the best direction of what resources I should go to, and how to understand what was going on with my learning process. Usually my problems were something really easy, but my brain just couldn’t grasp the information. So they would tell me “come on Sam, you know this! Stop making this more than it is” which would help me look back at it and understand what it was and why I was making it over complicated. I take things way too far. Which I guess could be good or bad. However, there are things that are very simple, and I just can’t comprehend. So those are the people I go to when I am struggling with my athletic training classes. When I am struggling with other classes like my chemistry class or stats, I would turn to Brianne. She would usually tell me that I might need to take a break from those classes and try to retake them next semester. However, this was more than enough for me to challenge her and allow me to do better in the class. Her support allows me to challenge myself. Whenever I hear “I cant do something” or “maybe take break from it,” it really fires me up to want to prove everyone wrong and show them I am ready and capable. Which ironically is really helpful for me to go to Brianne because hearing that allows me to do better in the class. Lastly, for the most stressful part of the semester (exit interviews), I turn to Chaypin. She helps me balance my stress, knowledge, and schoolwork. I try to begin my book early in the semester, however, I tend to forget small details about the subject. So she helps me to gather all my thoughts together and continues to ask me the same questions to make sure its locked in my brain. All these people are my support system in different ways. When I am struggling with something, I know exactly who to go to for help.
I was able to get 8 attempts this week and no masteries. However, I am getting masteries this week!
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Reflective JournalsThese journal entries express my experience as an athletic training student Archives
April 2019
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