Main description:

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.

Contents:

Dedication
Foreword by Jeff G. Konin, PhD, ATC, PT, FACSM, FNATA
Introduction
Abbreviation List
Chapter 1: Study Techniques and Test-Taking Strategies
Improving Concentration
Additional Study Suggestions
Time Management
Specific Test-Taking Strategies
Decreasing Your Test Anxiety
What to Bring to the Exam
Chapter 2: General Information and the Exam Format
Goals of This Text
Eligibility and Applying for the BOC Exam
Development of the BOC Exam
The BOC Exam Format
Sections Within This Book
Chapter 3: Knowledge Assessment
Multiple-Choice Questions
Athletic Training Domains
Injury and Illness Prevention and Wellness Promotion
Examination, Assessment, and Diagnosis
Immediate and Emergency Care
Therapeutic Intervention
Health Care Administration and Professional Responsibility
Related Athletic Training Subject Matter
Human Anatomy
Human Physiology
Exercise Physiology
Biomechanics
Psychology
Nutrition
Pharmacology
Physics
Evidence-Based Practice
True/False Questions
Evidence-Based Practice
Prevention and Health Promotion
Examination, Assessment, and Diagnosis
Therapeutic Intervention
Psychosocial Strategies and Referral
Acute Care of Injury and Illness
Health Care Administration and Professional Responsibility
Chapter 4: Clinical Decision Making
Chapter 5: Skills Assessment
Chapter 6: Critical Thinking
Neurology (Differential Diagnosis)
Respiratory (Differential Diagnosis)
Cardiovascular (Evaluative Tests)
Orthopedic (Differential Diagnosis)
Gynecology (Evaluative Tests)
Gastrointestinal (Treatment)
Dermatology (Differential Diagnosis)
Orthopedic (Evaluative Tests)
Musculoskeletal (Treatment)
Visceral (Signs and Symptoms)
Psychology (Differential Diagnosis)
Documentation/Management Strategies
Budgeting
Chapter 7: What to Do if You Do Not Pass the First Time
Appendix A: Sample Study Calendar and Daily Log
Appendix B: Answer Key: Knowledge Assessment
Multiple-Choice Answers
Athletic Training Domains
Injury and Illness Prevention and Wellness Promotion
Examination, Assessment, and Diagnosis
Immediate and Emergency Care
Therapeutic Intervention
Health Care Administration and Professional Responsibility
Related Athletic Training Subject Matter
Human Anatomy
Human Physiology
Exercise Physiology
Biomechanics
Psychology
Nutrition
Pharmacology
Physics
Evidence-Based Practice
True/False Answers
Evidence-Based Practice
Prevention and Health Promotion
Examination, Assessment, and Diagnosis
Therapeutic Intervention
Psychosocial Strategies and Referral
Acute Care of Injury and Illness
Health Care Administration and Professional Responsibility
Appendix C: Answer Key: Clinical Decision Making
Appendix D: Answer Key: Critical Thinking
Neurology (Differential Diagnosis)
Respiratory (Differential Diagnosis)
Cardiovascular (Evaluative Tests)
Orthopedic (Differential Diagnosis)
Gynecology (Evaluative Tests)
Gastrointestinal (Treatment)
Dermatology (Differential Diagnosis)
Orthopedic (Evaluative Tests)
Musculoskeletal (Treatment)
Visceral (Signs and Symptoms)
Psychology (Differential Diagnosis)
Documentation/Management Strategies
Budgeting
References