1. BOC Role Delineation Workshop Nina Walker Jan C. Lauer 2009 BOC Athletic Trainer Regulatory Conference

2. Role Delineation Study  Identifies essential knowledge and skills for the athletic training profession and serves as a blueprint for exam development  Created to ensure the certification examination has content validity The BOC exam must reflect the tasks performed in the range of practice settings throughout the United States.

3. Role Delineation Study  The study also validates importance, criticality, frequency and relevance to practice for both broad content areas and tasks.

4. Anatomy of the Role Delineation Study  Introduction  Classification of Domains, Tasks, Knowledge and Skills  Defining and Validating scope of practice Survey results  Appendix-References, Survey

5. Six Performance Domains Prevention Clinical Evaluation and Diagnosis Immediate Care Treatment, Rehabilitation and Reconditioning Organization and Administration Professional Responsibility

6. Domains….  Are divided into tasks and each task has a knowledge and skill statement.  Each performance domain and task statement is evaluated by it’s importance, criticality, frequency and point in career.

7. Domains….  Each domain contains a research based description of the area.  It begins with a summary of athletic training literature defining the domain and describing current practice and trends.

8. Tasks…  Each task has a comprehensive definition as to how it will be accomplished.  It also contains a list of appropriate knowledge and skill sets to successfully accomplish.

9. Why use Role Delineation Study?  RD 5 is a guide of knowledge and skills required to function as a competent athletic trainer.  Gold Standard

10. How does this help with regulatory and reimbursement efforts?  Guide for regulatory language  Guide for reimbursement efforts with third party payers  Educational tool for legislators, educators and other health care providers, etc.

11. RD 5 – information utilization  Can be utilized to answer questions by doctors, case managers, workers compensation, legislators, insurance companies, healthcare providers, lobbyists, general public, etc…

12. The Future- RD6  Enhanced readability, lay terms  Going Green! Electronic with potential hyperlinks for reference material Real time adjustments for items like position statements  Content adjustments to include variety of practice settings

13. “Scavenger Hunt” Workshop  Example question – Where in the RD 5 does it show that athletic trainers have the knowledge and ability to document in a healthcare setting?  List the domain, task, knowledge and skill

14. Follow Up Questions…

15. Thank You 2009 BOC Athletic Trainer Regulatory Conference