So in my program we just do one online course in the summer. It’s to get ourselves aware and familiarized with different types of injuries in each extremity of the body (personal not the best way for me to learn).

Our very first semester starts next month and I’m incredibly nervous because I somehow ended up being placed in the biggest and most athletically active high school in the area. (This school has MONEY)

I’m just extremely nervous because well… we haven’t learned anything yet. I’m a hands on person and with classes only meeting twice a week, none of us know any wrapping, how to diagnose people, emergency protocols. I just feel so unprepared and I feel like I’m the only one freaking out.

I want to be the best I can be for my rotation and learn as much as I can.

It’s also going to be tough for me because I work part time and am only able to get 3 days off a week that are not weekends because my role at my other job is what’s keeping my afloat with car and mortgage payments so my schedule is a little tight.

ANYWAYS… what was your first clinical rotation and first semester of being an AT student like? What is something you wish you could’ve/would’ve done?