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This workshop identifies essential knowledge and skills for athletic trainers, serving as a blueprint for exam development. It validates importance and relevance to practice, ensuring content validity of the certification examination.
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BOC Role Delineation WorkshopNina WalkerJan C. Lauer 2009 BOC Athletic Trainer Regulatory Conference
Role Delineation Study • Identifies essential knowledge and skills for the athletic training profession and serves as a blueprint for exam development • Created to ensure the certification examination has content validity • The BOC exam must reflect the tasks performed in the range of practice settings throughout the United States.
Role Delineation Study • The study also validates importance, criticality, frequency and relevance to practice for both broad content areas and tasks.
Anatomy of the Role Delineation Study • Introduction • Classification of Domains, Tasks, Knowledge and Skills • Defining and Validating scope of practice • Survey results • Appendix-References, Survey
Six Performance Domains • Prevention • Clinical Evaluation and Diagnosis • Immediate Care • Treatment, Rehabilitation and Reconditioning • Organization and Administration • Professional Responsibility
Domains…. • Are divided into tasks and each task has a knowledge and skill statement. • Each performance domain and task statement is evaluated by it’s importance, criticality, frequency and point in career.
Domains…. • Each domain contains a research based description of the area. • It begins with a summary of athletic training literature defining the domain and describing current practice and trends.
Tasks… • Each task has a comprehensive definition as to how it will be accomplished. • It also contains a list of appropriate knowledge and skill sets to successfully accomplish.
Why use Role Delineation Study? • RD 5 is a guide of knowledge and skills required to function as a competent athletic trainer. • Gold Standard
How does this help with regulatory and reimbursement efforts? • Guide for regulatory language • Guide for reimbursement efforts with third party payers • Educational tool for legislators, educators and other health care providers, etc.
RD 5 – information utilization • Can be utilized to answer questions by doctors, case managers, workers compensation, legislators, insurance companies, healthcare providers, lobbyists, general public, etc…
The Future- RD6 • Enhanced readability, lay terms • Going Green! Electronic with potential hyperlinks for reference material • Real time adjustments for items like position statements • Content adjustments to include variety of practice settings
“Scavenger Hunt” Workshop • Example question – Where in the RD 5 does it show that athletic trainers have the knowledge and ability to document in a healthcare setting? • List the domain, task, knowledge and skill
Thank You 2009 BOC Athletic Trainer Regulatory Conference