User:Jroberts119/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Athletic training - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I believe that this article is lacking when it comes to the role of an athletic trainer in the field as well as how a person becomes a certified athletic trainer. Information relating to university accreditation is not up to date.

Evaluate the article
To start I think that under the roles and responsibilities section, there should a better explanation of what an athletic trainer actually does. For example, in college and professional athletics, athletic trainers can be seen on the sidelines of games waiting for a situation that may require their assistance. They respond to athletes who become injured while playing their sport, monitor athletes who have sustained injuries, and make decisions that relate to an athlete's ability to keep playing. These decisions come in real time and require quick and efficient judgement calls. This means that an athletic trainer is put under a lot of stress. This stress not only comes from making the right diagnosis, but it comes from coaches and athletes whose interest may go against what that athletic trainer thinks is best.

Another area where I see a lack of information is the Education section. The topic of accredited programs as it relates to athletic training has undergone a good bit of change over the past few years. To become an athletic trainer, one must graduate from a program accredited by CAATE as well as pass the BOC exam. Now, most accredited programs are masters (graduate) programs instead of bachelors (undergraduate) programs. This means that students wanting to become athletic trainers must undergo additional education than student in the past did.

Overall, these are the two biggest problems I see with this article. There could be some information added in other spots, but I believe that the most crucial information that is missing is related to what I have mentioned above. One source I would recommend is the CAATE website as it has a lot of concise information published on it.