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.
Throughout my experiences of picking a clinical question, I began by just leaning on others for their ideas. I used to be content with allowing others to guide me in a direction. I did not want to stand up and do something on my own. I wanted others to have an opinion, and I would lean on them with their ideas. Recently, I have grown past this fear. I have now became more vocal for myself. This began last year when I start my own clinical question. Last semester my clinical question came from my own clinical patient because I was curious about the surgery and restrictions they could obtain. Researching on a subject that I was very interested in was a lot easier than doing what my group had selected like I did in the previous years. Since this change I am trying to pursue, I have switched clinical partners. I am very excited for the new change. My clinical partner this semester is Meg Greene. We have been talking for a while about what type of clinical question we wanted to begin research on. It came across our attention that we were both interested in the heart. I was personally interested in the heart because I feel less educated about the subject due to how much it contains. We were also very intrigued by the heart after learning how to read an EKG during preseason and sudden cardiac arrest. So we decided that we wanted to expand our education and research the heart. However, we weren’t sure where we wanted to narrow our question down to. We brought Melissa into our question because we needed help in selecting where we should go. After multiple conversations, the key aspect Meg and I were interested in researching was diagnostic testing. So this began leading up to our clinical question. Our clinical question is “in athletes ages 16-22, what diagnostic testing is more reliable in determining the presence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.” Our clinical committee members include Melissa Davis, Beth Funkhouser, Randy Smith, and Dr. Handy. We picked this committee to have array of education talents. So far we have been doing research in order to narrow our search to define a certain diagnostic test. We are working towards a broad question, and we are hoping to have a certain diagnostic test we can research throughout the semester.
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