Athletic trainers specialize in injury and illness prevention, assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for all physically active people, including the general public

Certified athletic trainers work as physicians extenders in doctor’s offices, in rural and urban hospitals, hospital emergency rooms, urgent and ambulatory care centers, military hospitals, physical therapy clinics, high schools, colleges/universities, commercial employers, professional sports teams and performance arts companies.  They are multi-skilled health care workers who, like others in the medical community with science-based degrees, are in great demand because of the continuing and increasing shortage of registered nurses and other health care workers.  The skills of ATCs have been sought and valued by sports medicine specialists and other physicians for more than 50 years.