What are the best practices for developing students’ clinical reasoning ability?

Join ATu education lead, Christopher Schmidt, PhD, ATC, for a 45-minute session on using the ATu suite of apps to enhance teaching and learning across the athletic training curriculum.

Summer Webinar Series: Every Friday at 12pm PST

00:00 Chris Schmidt Education Lead Introduction

02:50 Why ATu?

15:40 Clinical Reasoning Development

20:20 ROM/MMT Simulations

36:51 On-Field Care Simulations

50:00 Next Webinar


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Are our students competent in using all the tools in their therapeutic toolbox?

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Summer Webinar Series: Every Friday at 12pm PST

00:00 Chris Schmidt Education Lead Introduction

02:19 Who's who?

03:35 What is ATu?

14:18 Physical Agents App

29:55 Graded Exposure for Motor Skill Development with ATu?

33:01 Physical Agents App

37:27 Educator Resources

43:28 Physical Agents Simulations

54:08 Applicability & Value


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How can we enhance students’ ability to examine, diagnose, and provide therapeutic interventions?

Join ATu education lead, Christopher Schmidt, PhD, ATC, for a 45-minute session on using the ATu suite of apps to enhance teaching and learning across the athletic training curriculum.

Summer Webinar Series: Every Friday at 12pm PST

00:00 Chris Schmidt Education Lead Introduction

03:00 What is ATu?17:27Orthopaedics App

44:02 Orthopaedics Simulations

51:22 Educator Resources/Faculty access

52:00 Educator Worksheets

55:00 Applicability to ATu Curriculum Design


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2022 CAATE Accreditation Conference

ATu was proud to be a bronze-level sponsor of the 2022 CAATE Accreditation Conference recently held in Atlanta, GA (Oct. 7-8, 2022). The conference was a collaborative time to learn about the latest trends and innovations in specialty accreditation in athletic training.

It was especially exciting to see so many faculty stop by the ATu booth in the conference's exhibit hall area to say hello and explore how the ATu suite of apps and e-learning simulations can transform their classrooms and clinical education settings. Our Education Lead, Dr. Christopher Schmidt, and Product and Education Manager, Dr. Tracy Moore, were on hand to provide live demonstrations and answer questions for many conference attendees.

Look for us at future athletic training conferences!

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How can we exhibit compliance with the accreditation standards using ATu?

Join ATu education lead, Christopher Schmidt, PhD, ATC, for a 45-minute session on using the ATu suite of apps to enhance teaching and learning across the athletic training curriculum.

Summer Webinar Series: Every Friday at 12pm PST

00:00 Chris Schmidt Education Lead Introduction

01:24 James Syms Introduction

02:42 ATu contributers

03:30 Professional Disclosures

05:10 What is ATu?

10:22 Curriculum Design in Athletic Training

24:45 Operational Standards

29:40 Simulations

36:57 Operational Standards for Simulations

42:51 How ATu supports the CAATE Standards

49:25 Using ATu to supercharge your classroom

51:14 Educator Resources


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Back to basics: Interactive learning to enhance students’ fundamental examination skills

Join ATu education lead, Christopher Schmidt, PhD, ATC, for a 45-minute session on using the ATu suite of apps to enhance teaching and learning across the athletic training curriculum.

Summer Webinar Series: Every Friday at 12pm PST

00:00 Chris Schmidt Education Lead Introduction

01:11 James Syms Introduction

04:19 What is ATu?

15:50 Surface Anatomy Palpation App

26:20 Educator Resources/Worksheets

29:29 ROM, MMT, and Palpation App

37:45 Lab Handouts

41:56 Simulations

56:04 Applicability for Contemporary AT Curriculum Design


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ATu 101: Are we ready to supercharge the semester?

Join ATu education lead, Christopher Schmidt, PhD, ATC, for a 45-minute session on using the ATu suite of apps to enhance teaching and learning across the athletic training curriculum.

Summer Webinar Series: Every Friday at 12pm PST

00:00 Chris Schmidt Education Lead Introduction

03:00 What is ATu?

18:25 ATu Suite

22:30 Special Tests App

39:19 Using ATu in the classroom

46:53 Simulations

57:21 Lab Handouts

01:04:49 Student Rates

01:06:51 Want to learn more? Let's chat!


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NeuroRehab update: Many improvements for better organization, search & usability

Hi Everyone, It’s Mike from ATu,

We are excited to announce a big new update to the NeuroRehab app, authored by Dr. Sara Kraft and created in Partnership with the Medical University of South Carolina.

In this new update, all intervention videos have been carefully reorganized by impairments or functional movements to improve searchability while improving usability in the clinic and the classroom.

A full examination of a neuro patient has been converted into an interactive learning experience, guiding students and new clinicians through the thought process of an expert during the evaluation session. This experience includes formative feedback and interactive quizzing to help develop clinical reasoning. These e-learning modules allow for score reporting and tracking of time spent in each module

Case studies built on clinic-based patient videos have been created to enhance clinical reasoning development and to create opportunities to engage students in context-rich learning environments. These cases include clients in the following categories:

  • Stroke

  • Spinal cord injury

  • Traumatic brain injury

  • Parkinson’s disease

  • Wheelchair- Evaluation and intervention

The NeuroRehab app also includes a centralized hub for available online resources and websites to facilitate clinician and student access to enhance evidence-based clinical practice.

The next generation of learning in Neurological Rehabilitation. Brought to you by the team at ATu!


Therapeutic interventions: Using the ATu Evidence-Based Taping and Splinting apps to enhance your teaching

Join ATu education lead, Christopher Schmidt, PhD, ATC, for a 45-minute session on using the ATu suite of apps to enhance teaching and learning across the athletic training curriculum.

Summer Webinar Series: Every Friday at 12pm PST

00:00 Chris Schmidt Education Lead Introduction

01:46 James Syms Introduction

02:15 Michael Wong Introduction

02:30 Tracy Moore Introduction

03:32 What is ATu?

12:42 Evidence-Based Taping and Splinting Standards

19:50 Evidence-Based Taping and Splinting App

42:17 Splinting App

51:10 Graded Exposure for Motor Development with ATu


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Acute, life-threatening, and emergent conditions: Using the ATu Emergency Care & Simulations apps to enhance your teaching

Join ATu education lead, Christopher Schmidt, PhD, ATC, for a 45-minute session on using the ATu suite of apps to enhance teaching and learning across the athletic training curriculum.

Summer Webinar Series: Every Friday at 12pm PST

00:00 Chris Schmidt Education Lead Introduction

01:28 James Syms Introduction

01:49 Tracy Moore Introduction

04:03 Matt Mills & Lynette Carlson Introduction

04:42 What is ATu?

12:20 Emergency Care app

41:30 Emergency Care Simulations

1:02:00 Value for AT Curriculum Design


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Motor skill development with ATu: Enhancing learning while reducing faculty burden!

Join ATu education lead, Christopher Schmidt, PhD, ATC, for a 45-minute session on using the ATu suite of apps to enhance teaching and learning across the athletic training curriculum.

Summer Webinar Series: Every Friday at 12pm PST

00:00 Chris Schmidt Education Lead Introduction

01:11 Mike Wong Introduction

01:35 Tracy Moore & James Syms Introduction

03:04 Amy Radu Introduction

03:38 What is ATu and why was it built?

18:33 PNF app

25:30 Educator Resources Bar

38:45 Applicability & Value for AT Curriculum Design

45:22 Assigning tasks & Simulations

59:45 Student Rates


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Therapeutic interventions: Using the ATu Physical Agents & Simulations apps to enhance your teaching

Join ATu education lead, Christopher Schmidt, PhD, ATC, for a 45-minute session on using the ATu suite of apps to enhance teaching and learning across the athletic training curriculum.

Summer Webinar Series: Every Friday at 12pm PST

00:00 Chris Schmidt Education Lead Introduction

01:26 Mike Wong Introduction

01:53 James Syms Introduction

02:38 What us ATu and why was it built?

06:42 Two Year AT Curriculum with ATu apps

12:40 Physical Agents

23:30 Graded Exposure for Motor Skill Development with ATu

28:55 Using your educator resources bar

31:55 Lab Handouts

34:23 Simulations

57:01 Integrating ATu into Teaching & Classroom


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Fundamental skills: Using the ATu ROM, MMT, and Palpation, Surface Anatomy Palpation & Simulations apps to enhance your teaching

Join ATu education lead, Christopher Schmidt, PhD, ATC, for a 45-minute session on using the ATu suite of apps to enhance teaching and learning across the athletic training curriculum.

Summer Webinar Series: Every Friday at 12pm PST

00:00:00 Chris Schmidt Education Lead Introduction

00:01:32 Mike Wong Founder Introduction & James Syms Introduction

00:03:35 What is ATu?

00:07:01 Overview

00:12:30 Surface Anatomy Palpation

00:19:30 Educator Resources: Linked Lab Handouts

00:24:02 ROM, MMT Palpation

00:46:26 Lab Handouts

00:52:53 Graded Exposure for Motor Skill Development with ATu

00:55:55 Developing Clinical Reasoning through Simulation

00:57:04 ROM, MMT Palpation Simulations

01:04:31 Applicability for Contemporary AT Curriculum Design

01:09:20 Why is this beneficial to students


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Clinical Reasoning Development Across the Athletic Training Curriculum with ATu apps & Simulations

Join ATu education lead, Christopher Schmidt, PhD, ATC, for a 45-minute session on using the ATu suite of apps to enhance teaching and learning across the athletic training curriculum.

Summer Webinar Series: Every Friday at 12pm PST

00:00:00 Chris Schmidt Education Lead Introduction

00:01:48 Mike Wong Founder Introduction & James Syms Introduction

00:02:30 What is ATu?

00:03:45 Overview

00:05:41 Increased Need for Simulation-Based Learning

00:08:10 What are simulations?

00:09:15 Simulations in AT Education

00:14:49 Common Barriers

00:19:30 Difference between PhysioU and ATu

00:25:41 Simulations

00:45:35 Emergency Care Simulations

00:55:40 Applicability for Contemporary AT Curriculum Design

01:01:10 Other Simulations


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Examination, diagnosis, and intervention: Using the ATu Orthopaedics, Special Tests & Simulations apps to enhance your teaching

Join ATu education lead, Christopher Schmidt, PhD, ATC, for a 45-minute session on using the ATu suite of apps to enhance teaching and learning across the athletic training curriculum.

Summer Webinar Series: Every Friday at 12pm PST

00:00:00 Chris Schmidt Education Lead Introduction

00:01:00 Mike Wong Founder Introduction

00:02:58 James Syms Introduction

00:03:50 Webinar Overview

00:05:16 What is ATu and why did we build it?

00:09:28 ATu apps for your classroom

00:13:33 Our common mission and shared challenges

00:15:00 A Solution: Use Technology to optimize Teahing and Learning

00:16:00 Orthopaedics app

00:35:19 Special Tests app

00:39:48 Simulations apps

00:53:05 Using ATu Graded Exposure for Skill Development & Clinical Application

00:54:34 Orthopaedics Worksheet

00:59:20 Applicability for ATU Curriculum Design

01:09:55 Want to learn more? Let's chat!

01:10:48 Simulations


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Curriculum design to optimize teaching and learning with ATu apps and simulations

Join ATu education lead, Christopher Schmidt, PhD, ATC, for a 45-minute session on using the ATu suite of apps to enhance teaching and learning across the athletic training curriculum.

Summer Webinar Series: Every Friday at 12pm PST

00:00:00 Chris Introduction

00:01:00 Team Introduction

00:04:30 Webinar Overview

00:06:05 What is ATu and why did we build it?

00:10:32 ATu apps for your classroom!

00:11:06 Curriculum Design in Athletic Training

00:16:28 Are we supposed to be superhuman?

00:17:59 A Solution: use technology to optimize teaching and learning

00:21:05 ROM, MMT, and Palpation app

00:24:08 Lab Handouts

00:31:30 Physical Agents app

00:37:12 Simulations

00:50:00 Comments and Questions


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2022 Summer release is finally here!

After 2 years of research and development, the ATu team is proud to deliver these new apps and modules to our users. They are now officially available on our web app. Click an app to learn more:

Log in to your ATu account and check it out! Don’t already have an ATu account? Create a trial account here!

 
 

Application

NeuroAnatomy

 
 

We are proud to announce our exciting new NeuroAnatomy App.

Intentionally designed with progressively more challenging activities, it provides opportunities for the learner to build a solid foundation of neuroanatomy for clinical practice. Beautiful graphics include an interactive 3D model of the brain and spinal cord, with actual human anatomical slices that are  labeled with explanations.

Content expert Charlotte Chatto, PT, PhD, Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Neurologic Physical Therapy has had a passion for finding creative ways of teaching neuroanatomy and treating patients with neurologic conditions for over 30 years. 

 Features:

  • In the four Neuroanatomy Explorer Challenges, each with multiple sections, practice questions cover basic concepts, structures, functions, and dysfunctions of the brain and spinal cord. Interactive Mini-Games are incorporated into the Challenges to reward the learner with fun facts about the nervous system. 

  • In Learn by Slice, the learner can choose a slice of the brain or spinal cord and explore the major structures on the slice by clicking on anatomical pins to reveal explanations. 

  • In Learn by Tract, the learner can understand connections between anatomical structures, through short explainer videos, overview images and clickable structures, to reveal the location and function of major motor and sensory tracts.

Simulations & e-Learning

Emergency Care

 
 

The team at ATu is excited to announce the release of two new e-learning emergency care simulations!  Each simulation contains an evolving case scenario with clinical reasoning activities for your students.

In addition to the currently available emergency care simulations:

  • anaphylaxis, avulsed tooth,

  • cardiac compromise (commotio cordis),

  • diabetes,

  • lower extremity musculoskeletal pathology (ankle sprain; knee sprain),

  • respiratory compromise (asthma), and

  • upper extremity musculoskeletal pathology (PIP joint dislocation),

the new simulations contain self-paced learning experiences involving the assessment and emergency care of a patient with a lower extremity musculoskeletal pathology and a patient with exertional sickling.  Each of the emergency care simulations is designed to specifically address the curricular content contained within CAATE Standards 70 and 71.  

We hope you and your students enjoy exploring the two new e-learning emergency care simulations and the entire suite of ATu apps!

  • Learn how to assign these simulations in your syllabus here.

  • Learn how to add videos to lecture and lab here.

  • Determine how to use the learning reports so that you can track student participation.

 

CPG Orthopaedic MiniGames

 
 

Clinical practice guidelines gamified! We are proud to announce the new Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Foundations set of MiniSIMS built exclusively around the practice standard setting guidelines released by the Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy and Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT). Each MiniSIM is built with the new learner in mind, starting with patient subjective complaints and objective findings that help with clinical pattern recognition. Testing procedures as described by the guidelines are demonstrated using high definition video and interactive matching of interventions to impairments of body structure and function help a student to connect the dots between examination and treatment.

Best Use Case:

These sims should be used during the week before you teach about a body region (Neck pain/cervical spine for example) as a scaffolding exercise and the building of clinical patterns for students. They can also be used at the end of a week (after cervical spine week, for example…) as a way for the students to connect the dots of all the things that they have learned during that week. These apps were built so that someone with almost no experience can begin their pattern recognition development process.

  • Learn how to assign these simulations in your syllabus here.

  • Learn how to add videos to lecture and lab here.

  • Determine how to use the learning reports so that you can track student participation.

 

Postures

 
 

The Posture SIMs were designed to help students further develop their reasoning skills after they have learned the basics related to posture. Simple clinical scenarios have been created so that students can link postural faults to possible impairments of body structure and function. These impairments are then logically connected to interventions, with sample videos (of the techniques) so that students can connect the dots to techniques that they may not yet have learned. These sims are relatively simple and formative in nature. 

Best Use Case:

These sims should be used during the week of or after the students learn about postural deviations.

  • Learn how to assign these simulations in your syllabus here.

  • Learn how to add videos to lecture and lab here.

  • Determine how to use the learning reports so that you can track student participation.

Welcome Dr. Christopher Schmidt, PhD, ATC to the ATu team!

The ATu team is excited to welcome Dr. Schmidt to join the team as our Education Lead. He brings 28 years of higher education experience as an educator, clinician, consultant, accreditation peer reviewer, and program administrator to the ATu team. His curriculum development, teaching, and professional service expertise will lead content development. He will be leading the summer series of webinars to help you take your course and your program to another level.

Preview: Summer Product Release and Faculty Live webinars

A few words from our Education Lead, Dr. Chris Schmidt, about the upcoming summer product release: this covers NeuroAnatomy, a series of simulations and micro-learning modules that include emergency care updates, posture cases, and much more!

Sharing Options in ATu

ATu has become even more social!

While you are logged in and scrolling away at different techniques, conditions, or exercises, you will see that there is an arrow on the right side of your screen that allows the side bar to appear.

Once the sidebar appears, you will be able to see the tab Share Page with 2 options. If you would like to quickly send the link via text message or email, it is best to select Copy This Page URL to Share.

Simply, click Copy This Page URL to Share to a new text message or email so that others can also enjoy what PhysioU has to offer.