Residency program goals
The UW Health Athletic Training Residency Program seeks to:
- Provide athletic trainers with a comprehensive 12-month residency with didactic, scholarly and clinical experiences within the orthopedic setting.
- Prepare athletic training residents to participate as versatile members of a health care team within the orthopedic setting through the application of advanced knowledge and skills.
- To develop athletic training professionals who apply their advanced knowledge in employment settings consistent with their residency training.
Resident learning outcomes
UW Health Athletic Training Residents will:
- Demonstrate advanced knowledge beyond their initial professional preparation within the orthopedic setting.
- Apply the ACGME Core Competencies to professional practice:
- Employ patient-centered care and procedural skills
- Apply advanced medical knowledge
- Reflect for the purpose of practice-based learning and quality improvement
- Enhance interpersonal and communication skills
- Exhibit commitment to professional conduct
- Demonstrate awareness to system-based practice
- Demonstrate competence through successful completion of the orthopedic technologist exam.
- Prepare and present scholarly work in an interdisciplinary educational forum.
Goal: To develop athletic training professionals who apply their advanced knowledge in employment settings consistent with their residency training.
Performance indicators: 80% of residents will work in an employment setting consistent with their residency training 6 months post-program completion.
UW Health Athletic Training Residency Program aggregate data (2020-2023)
- Completion rate: 100%
- Employment rate: 100%; employed in the clinical setting
- Retention rate: NA; 12-month program
| Residency Year | Number of Residents | Completion Rate | Employment Rate | Retention Rate |
| 2020-2021 | 2 | 100% | 100% | NA |
| 2021-2022 | 2 | 100% | 100% | NA |
| 2022-2023 | 2 | 100% | 100% | NA |