The National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) has a wide-ranging committee called the Executive Committee for Education (ECE) that is charged to inform and assist the profession in setting the direction for athletic training education. One recent initiative of the NATA ECE committee is to investigate how the internship model contribute to the educational development of athletic trainers considering the evolving practice settings.
Dr. Michael Hudson of the SMAT department will chair a workgroup within the NATA ECE to explore this issue. He will work with representatives from various other NATA committees such as the Committee on Professional Advancement, the Ethnic Diversity Committee, the College and University Athletic Trainers’ Committee, and many others. This committee and workgroup are featured in an article in the April 2015 edition of the NATA news (page 17) which can be accessed at www.nata.org.
Best of luck leading this workgroup Dr. Hudson.