ATRN 8100 - Practice-Based Research

3 credit hours

This course aims to improve the athletic trainer’s understanding of and, ability to conduct, practice-based research. Practice-based research represents the last step of the translational research continuum and is vital to the translation of evidence into routine clinical practice. In brief, practice-based research is conducted by clinicians at the point-of-care, with real patients, and during the usual course of patient care. To meet its purpose, this course will cover fundamental concepts related to practice-based research including but not limited to the clinician-scientist model, researcher-clinician partnerships, common study designs and statistical approaches, implementation and dissemination of evidence, and practice-based research networks.