This semester my clinical goals are: I want to get better at therapeutic interventions by being responsible for 3 different rehabs this semester; I want to prepare for the BOC by doing 10 questions from a BOC prep book in my 2 weakest domains when I am in the clinic; I want to remember special test and MMT better by reviewing 5 every time I am in the clinic. So far I have had the most progress with my second goal, I want to prepare for the BOC by doing 10 questions from a BOC prep book in my 2 weakest domains when I am in the clinic. My preceptor, Joe Lynch, has been very helpful in ensuring I accomplish this goal. Every time I am in the clinic I do ten questions and the next time I am in the clinic we review them and do another 10. I think this will help me because researcher shows that having to think about material I have not thought about in a while will actually make me learn it better. My two weakest domains from the practice Board of Certification exam I took were Domain IV, Treatment and Rehabilitation, and V, Organization and Professional Health and Well-Being. Considering I am just now taking the class which covers domain V and I scored 73% correct, I am not too worried about this domain. I really need to review and recover domain IV. This is an important domain not only because it is a large portion of the exam, but it is things I need to know well in order to be a good athletic trainer. My other two goals need to be worked on more. There are a couple athletes I am able to work on often, but I feel like it is not as often as I would like. This just depends on my and the athlete’s schedule. The 2 patients I would like to work with the most are cross country runners. One is a female who had an ACL surgery in high school who complains of tightness throughout her lower chain. Upon inspection, she lacks terminal extension in her surgery leg 3 years post-surgery. So far we have been working on flexibility and activating her VMO to reeducate it to fully extend her leg. This is a patient I have had the most contact with, but often times schedule conflicts happen. Another athlete I would like to work with just is never in the clinic when I can be there. He is experiencing Over training syndrome. I would like to see how this is affecting him and be a part of the rehab process. This is something have never truly dealt with so I think it would be interesting to be a part of. My final goal I just have not got to yet. I think when I run out of questions in the one BOC book I am working on now I will ask Joe to start helping me with this goal. With this goal, I think I just need to be drilled and work hard on not only memorizing the test and how to do them but, really ingraining the important tests into my head so I know which test will be more helpful than not during an evaluation. Overall, I think I am making good early progress on my goals. These are definitely achievable and reasonable things I will accomplish over this semester.
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