1. Exploring Careers By Savannah Youngholm

2. Athletic Trainer: What they do ●Instructs coaches, athletes, parents, medical personnel, and community members in the care and prevention of athletic injuries ●Assesses and reports the progress of recovering athletes to coaches and physicians. ●Evaluates athletes' readiness to play, and provides participation clearances when necessary and warranted What stood out to me was how hands on everything is and how your quick thinking can affect the outcome of that athletes career because without the proper knowledge you won’t be very helpful to their recovery.

3. Athletic Trainer: Is this for you? ●general learning abilities= Your ability to catch on and understand new things ●verbal aptitudes=Expressed in spoken rather than written words ●finger dexterity=skillfulness in the use of one's hands or body. What stood out to me was the actual meaning of the word’s. I never knew that being an Athletic Trainer would involve being very verbal and being very hands on.

4. Athletic Trainer: Skills you need ●Reading comprehension ●Active learning ●Science It was no surprise that being an Athletic Trainer would involve science because its a medical field. Now it makes sense to having reading comprehension because you need to be able read step by step procedures in order to complete the task. As for active learning, you need to be able to understand what people are explaining in order to do what’s the most effective.

5. Athletic Trainer: What to learn Beyond High School ● Kinesiology and Exercise Science=. A scientific program that focuses on the anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and biophysics of human movement, and applications to exercise and therapeutic rehabilitation. ● Bachelor Degree= A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is required for almost all jobs as an athletic trainer, but many athletic trainers hold a master's or doctoral degree. Athletic trainers may need a master's or higher degree to be eligible for some positions, especially those in colleges and universities, and to increase their advancement opportunities ●BOC certificate= athletic trainers need a bachelor's degree from an accredited athletic training program. In addition, a successful candidate for BOC certification must pass a rigorous examination.

6. Athletic Trainer:Money and Outlook Average Annual wage: $51,180 Entry Annual Wage: $27,540 Experienced Annual Wage: $75,760 I was actually surprised at how little athletic trainers get. I found out that depending on how much more schooling and training you get, the more experienced you have and therefore higher salary.

7. Athletic Trainer: Connections College Athletic Trainers' Society http://www.collegeathletictrainer.org National Athletic Trainers' Association http://www.nata.org Myfuture.com http://www.myfuture.com

8. Family/General practitioner: What they do ●Advises patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention ●Prescribes or administers treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination, and other medical care to treat and prevent illness, disease, and injury ●Coordinates work with nurses, social workers, rehabilitation therapists, pharmacists, psychologists, and other healthcare providers There was nothing surprising about the stuff that general practitioners have to do.

9. Family/General practitioner:Is this for you? ●spacial perception= Your ability to understand how objects can be arranged within a set space ●clerical perception= Your ability to check numbers and words quickly to spot mistakes ●manual dexterity= Your ability to move your hands skillfully when working with objects The funny thing with these skills are the fact they all involve math and hands-on. I’m good with using my hands but math is not my strongest areas.

10. Family/General practitioner: Skills you need ●complex problem solving ●judgment and decision making ●coordination All of these skills seem to be reasonable with being a practitioner and helping sick people.

11. Family/General practitioner: What to learn ●pre-medicine/pre- medical studies= A program that prepares individuals for admission to a first-professional program in medicine, osteopathic medicine, or podiatric medicine ●medicine= A program that prepares individuals for the independent professional practice of medicine, involving the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illnesses, injuries, and other disorders of the human body ●first professional degree= Formal education and training requirements for physicians are among the most demanding of any occupation: four years of undergraduate school, four years of medical school, and three to eight years of internship and residency

12. Family/General practitioner:money and outlook Average Annual Wage: $194,780 Entry Annual Wage: $105,770 It would make sense that the average annual wage is so high because in order to be in this profession, you need a lot of schooling.

13. Family/General practitioner: connections American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org Myfuture.com http://www.myfuture.com

14. Physical Therapist: what they do ●Tests and measures patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and records data ●Instructs patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home ●Plans, prepares, or carries out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients What stood out to me about being a physical therapist is the dedication you need to have in order to be in this job. Also, the hands on stuff instead of doing paperwork.

15. Physical Therapist: Is this for you? ●numerical dexterity= Your ability to work quickly and correctly with numbers ●form perception= Your ability to see the resemblance or difference in objects, including how well you can evaluate shapes, shading, color and details ●hand-eye coordination= What thing that kind of makes me not want to be a physical therapist was using math because math is my weakest part. I knew going into anything medical, I would need math and science but I thought it was more science.

16. Physical Therapist: skills you need ●social perceptiveness= Being aware of and understanding other people's feelings ●coordination= Adjusting your actions when you see how others are reacting ●instructing= Teaching others how to do something Nothing really stood out to me about these skills because I already knew that being a physical therapist involved instructing, coordination, and social perceptiveness.

17. Physical Therapist: what to learn ●physical therapy/therapist= A program that prepares individuals to alleviate physical and functional impairments and limitations caused by injury or disease through the design and implementation of therapeutic interventions to promote fitness and health ●doctoral degree= Physical therapists need a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree ●National Physical Therapy Examination= All states require physical therapists to be licensed. Licensing requirements vary by state but all include passing the National Physical Therapy Examination administered by the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy

18. Physical Therapist: money and outlook Average annual wage: $91,330 Entry annual wage: $65,250 Experienced annual wage: $118,020 This career sounds like a good career because with the salary you can go to a higher education with college and with more school and experience, you can get a job quickly.

19. Physical Therapist: connections American Physical Therapy Association http://www.apta.org New York Physical Therapy Association http://www.nypta.org/ Myfuture.com http://www.myfuture.com

20. Conclusion ●hands-on ●verbal communication ● athletics ●medical ●what excites me about physical therapy and athletic training is that it’s hands on and something is always different and you are constantly learning ●it is more likely to pursue physical therapy and athletic training