Job well done to Kristin Tivener, faculty member of the Sports Medicine and Athletic Training (SMAT) department at Missouri State University for being published twice this summer.
Kristin conducted a study on high-fidelity simulation effects in athletic training and wrote up the results in a peer-reviewed original research study that appeared in the April-June issue of the Athletic Training Education Journal. High-fidelity (or highly realistic mannequins capable of programmable physiologic responses) are now utilized by Tivener within the practicum courses in the athletic training program to give students a chance to practice skills such as CPR in a realistic scenario. Tivener states “this research study was important in athletic training education because it gives insight as to the outcomes using high-fidelity simulation to practice CPR skills may have on athletic training students”. The article may be viewed here; http://natajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.4085/1002103.
Tivener also was a contributor to a White Paper that was published in the Athletic Training Education Journal titled Interprofessional Education and Practice in Athletic Training. A White Paper is a report where a group of experts in a certain area (in this case interprofessional education and practice in AT) come together utilizing published literature and provide a written stance on the advocated best practice. “Two big names in Athletic Training and leaders in IPE, Anthony Breitbach and Russ Richardson lead this group and were the primary authors for the White Paper. It was really exciting to work under their direction with a group of about 25 others in athletic training to develop this report” says Tivener. The White Paper may be viewed here; http://natajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.4085/1002170.
Please join the SMAT department in congratulating Kristin Tivener for these two publications.