Athletic Training Exam Review: A Student Guide to Success - Paperback

by Lynn Van Ost (Author), Karen Lew Feirman (Author), Karen Manfré (Author)

For more than 20 years, Athletic Training Exam Review has empowered and enabled students to assess and evaluate their athletic training knowledge, skills, and decision-making abilities. Now, newly updated for its platinum anniversary, the Seventh Edition continues a tradition of excellence while serving as a premier guide to successfully achieving certification as an athletic trainer.

The Seventh Edition serves as a comprehensive self-evaluation tool, elevating readers' level of preparation for the BOC exam. This market-leading guide has made a positive impact on the athletic training profession by highlighting and improving students' strengths and weaknesses.

What's inside:

• Updated study techniques and test-taking strategies
• An expanded overview of the exam format to assist in organization and planning
• More than 1,300 multiple-choice questions and nearly 100 true/false questions, updated and organized according to the BOC's Practice Analysis, Seventh Edition Educational Domains
• Clinical decision-making questions testing the ability to make appropriate judgment calls using problem solving
• A skills assessment composed of 26 problems designed to test manual athletic training skills
• Scenario-based problems to strengthen critical-thinking abilities

In addition to the updated content, the Seventh Edition also features a fully redesigned and expanded online test-taking experience, including:

• New user-friendly, mobile format
• 8 knowledge assessment tests--3 more than the previous edition!
• 5 unique true/false exams
• 20 total drag and drop identification photographs--8 more than the previous edition!
• 43 critical-thinking scenarios
• 3 clinical decision-making exams containing scenario-based exam questions
• 13 video segments with related questions for practicing evaluation and assessment

Athletic Training Exam Review has assisted thousands of students and has become a hallmark text around the globe. Connecting the classroom with clinical education, this review tool is a timely and critical text that prepares students for their exam and career as an athletic trainer.

Author Biography

Lynn Van Ost, MEd, RN, PT, ATC, graduated in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in nursing from West Chester State College in West Chester, Pennsylvania; was certified by the Board of Certification in athletic training in 1984; graduated in 1987 from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a master's degree in sports medicine/athletic training; and received a second bachelor's degree in physical therapy in 1988 from Temple University. In addition to treating the general orthopedic population as a physical therapist, she has worked with both amateur and professional athletes and has more than 11 years of experience as an athletic trainer working with Olympic-level elite athletes at numerous international events, including the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympic games. She currently works for Doctors of Physical Therapy, LLC as an Onsite Physical Therapist.

Karen Lew Feirman, DHSc, LAT, ATC, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida.

Karen Manfré, LAT, Retired, Hunterdon Central Regional High School, Flemington, New Jersey.