AT students reflect on a rewarding first year

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

It all started about a year ago with Zoom classes and learning skills from their homes. It has evolved into a challenging, yet rewarding curriculum that has prepared them for more than they ever imagined.

Welcome to the CHS Athletic Training professional program.

RHB Alums Help Start AT Professional Program

by Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

First, before anything else, they feel it’s best if you know what a preceptor is.

Because that’s what Peter Gray, LAT, and Laurie Blunk, MS, LAT, are talking about in this interiview. They’re discussing their roles as preceptors for UK, and specifically UK’s Athletic Training department.

First cohort of professional AT program is now applying their knowledge in the classroom

By Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

Welcome to Clinical Integration 1: Lower Extremity Assessment and Management.

Alum serves as UK football athletic trainer, Dir. of Sports Medicine

5 Questions with … Gabe Amponsah

by Ryan Clark
CHS Communications Director

They come from all over. You can find them on the Internet if you search.

CHS Alum Breaks New Ground Studying the Psychology of Injury

5 Questions with … Shelby Baez, PhD, ATC
by Ryan Clark
CHS Director of Communications

Shelby Baez knew she wanted a career in athletic training when she was in high school.

The University of Kentucky’s College of Health Sciences Assistant Professor in the Department of Athletic Training and Clinical Nutrition, Dr. Jean Fry, PhD, RDN, received an NIH-funded diversity supplement to determine if vitamin D status is a factor in muscle quality following an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear.

Richie Wells, an Athletic Training Student in UK’s College of Health Sciences, is using his past experiences and passion for education to start an internship-based program for students in low income neighborhoods. 

Shelby Baez, PhD, a UK College of Health Sciences alumna who received her Master’s in Athletic Training in 2016 and her PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences in 2019, was awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) for her outstanding contributions to injury rehabilitation research. 

A career in athletic training (AT) is fast-paced, interdisciplinary, and incredibly rewarding. A degree in athletic training will help you become a highly qualified, multi-skilled health care professional who collaborates with physicians to provide preventative services, emergency care, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions. As a graduate of our AT program, you will be prepared to practice in a variety of settings including universities, high schools, sports medicine clinics, professional sports and more.