Posted by David on 4/29/2004, 8:01 am, in reply to "Re: ATLT" Sorry for the confusion, but in your earlier post you mentioned gaining hours in high school several times. It appeared that you were currently doing that. I guess I just didn't follow your post very well. You may not understand my frustation with the current ATC staffing trends. I have a couple of friends who work in high schools as ATC's. They have approximately 400 student athletes to cover on 20 different teams. Since there are usually half a dozen teams practicing at any given time each afternoon, they can't possibly cover eveything. They say they have no time for rehab, treatments, or proper documentation of injuries at all. They basically act as first responders and send notes home to parents. The staffing levels will not let them come anywhere close to the level of services they should be providing to the students. I work in a college where I have about 200 athletes most years and I have a full time assistant. We work 60-70 hours a week aug - may. That is pretty typical and I see no signs of it changing. Once you work those hours for a few years it becomes exhausting. Once your married you will find that you spouse doesn't like you going for weeks at a time without a day off either. As long as ATC's will these kind of schedules employers will be happy to let you.
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College ATLT:
No other proffesional on campus works half that many hours or earns as little as the athletic training staff.
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: David- Like I said before, the work-study is at
: a college, not a high school-there is no high
: school involved. Basically, I have the same
: duties as an ATS, with more hours. I go to
: A.T. forums and conferences. Right now I am
: working on my undergrad in Health & Human
: Performance working toward my MS in A.T. The
: college does have a "full-time" ATC
: and it also has a grad-assistant ATC-as I
: mentioned before. I stay with in my
: knowledge. If there is something that I don't
: know, which usually occurs often, I just ask
: one of the ATCs which is always there right
: next to me and they answer questions--Just
: like an ATS. To be honest, there really is
: not a lot of work for even 2 ATCs right now
: anyway-let alone 3. So relax.
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: : I've never seen a work-study program like
: your in. Are you working toward an ATC
: certification at the college you are
: attending? I find it kind of odd that the
: college you are attending is paying you to
: work at a high school as a ATC aid.
: I am not surprised that the college athletic
: department is not paying for it. I look at
: what your doing as just one more way to avoid
: paying for full time ATC services. Instead of
: hiring more than one full time ATC, the high
: school found another way to hire cheap part
: time employees. I'm not blaming you or saying
: what you are doing is wrong. I blame the
: over-all ATC job market that consistantly
: finds everyway possible to short cut hiring
: full time professional ATC staff. In the end
: it is the athletic training profession that
: gets screwed!
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: For Experience, of course, but as a college
: student, there comes a time when you can't do
: things for free because you focus so much of
: your time to studies and athletic training in
: general. And as a 4 yr. ATS in a high school
: working with more sports in high school than
: college. I accumulated more experience in
: high school (2500+ hrs volunteer experience)
: than grad students have, or any students
: going into any AT program in college. Sure,
: you might think that the pay is high, but
: remember that is a work-study through the
: college. The financial aid office sets the
: high limit of how much I can earn, so I
: calculate out how much I can make in such a
: period of time. So why not gett paid while
: going to school. I see this opportunity not
: only as a work-study but more as a job. I
: stay with in the boundries of my knowledge,
: supervised by an ATC and a ATC
: Grad-Assistant. If I have questions, I can
: always ask the ATC there whether it is the
: Grad-Assistant, or the Head ATC. The
: athletic training program does not pay me,
: the college does through a work-study.
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: : I've been an ATC for about 15 years and
: I've
: worked in 4 different states. I have never
: heard of an ATLT. I would find it amazing for
: an athletic training program to pay anyone
: for part-time work in a training room other
: than a graduate assistant. There are too many
: people doing it for free (ie. for expeience}
: for them to pay someone.
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