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Clinical Education
Students will complete these experiences under the direction of the clinical education coordinator and the assigned clinical preceptors who plan, direct, advise and evaluate the students’ athletic training clinical experience and demonstration of clinical proficiency on a prescribed set of skills and behaviors.
The athletic training students will be integrated into the health care model for University of Pittsburgh athletes that are housed within the four athletic training facilities located on campus.
Students rotate through four on-campus athletic training facilities and several off-site affiliated settings during their clinical education.
Affiliation Agreements:
- Carnegie Mellon University
- La Roche University
- Robert Morris University
- The UPMC Freddie Fu Sports Medicine Center
- The UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex
- Pittsburgh Steelers
- Plus many local area high schools!
The above clinical placement locations offer a wide variety of practice settings for students to gain practical and hands-on patient care experiences. In the two years of the professional phase of the program, students will have the opportunity to interact with and provide athletic training health care for athletes and physically active patients from a variety of sports and risk levels, varying levels of competition and those from the same and opposite gender to create a diverse and comprehensive clinical experience prior to certification.
Background Checks and Other Clinical Participation Information
This program requires students to complete clinical education experiences at facilities both on and off the University campus and will require criminal background checks, Act 33/34 clearances and perhaps a drug screen prior to participation in clinical education. The results of these requirements may limit and potentially eliminate placement options for the student which can, in turn, result in an inability to meet graduation requirements. Additionally, conviction of a misdemeanor, felony, or felonious or illegal act may prevent the student from becoming credentialed and/or licensed to practice in the field.
Students are required to provide their own transportation to and from the off-campus clinical education sites. All costs incurred as a part of the clinical education experience are the responsibility of the student. Please be advised that some clinical sites are not accessible by public transportation.
As part of a leading R-1 research university, SHRS offers Pitt undergraduate and graduate students a multitude of opportunities to engage in diverse research experiences across its departments and programs.
Participation in a research project complements a student’s classroom learning and allows them to develop mentoring relationships with faculty, gain critical skills, access resources to pursue their own research interests, clarify life goals and strengthen career aspirations.
All Pitt undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply to participate in ongoing research.
An application is submitted, the information will be reviewed by faculty members working in the specified area of interest. Students can expect to be contacted by someone from SHRS that will direct to the best possible faculty researcher to help the student meet their personal research goals.
