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Certification and Licensure
Certified Athletic Trainers planning to practice
in Missouri:
You must be licensed through the Missouri Division of Professional
Registration to practice as an athletic trainer in Missouri.
Apply for your license here-License
Application
View the Practice Act for Athletic Trainers here-Missouri
Division of Professional Registration
Have you applied for your National Provider
Identification number?
Learn how here.
Students planning to pursue a career in Athletic
Training:
Students who want to become certified athletic trainers must earn a degree
from an accredited athletic training curriculum. Accredited programs include
formal instruction in areas such as injury/illness prevention, first aid and
emergency care, assessment of injury/illness, human anatomy and physiology,
therapeutic modalities, and nutrition. Classroom learning is enhanced through
clinical education experiences.
To become certified athletic trainers, students
must
graduate with bachelors or masters degree from an accredited professional
athletic training education program and pass a comprehensive test administered
by the Board of Certification. Once certified, they must meet ongoing
continuing education requirements in order to remain certified.
What does the Bureau of Labor
Statistics have to say about Athletic Training?
Accredited Athletic Training Programs in
Missouri
Central Methodist University
Wade
Welton, MS
411 Central Methodist Square
Fayette, MO 65248
Culver-Stockton College
Robert
Carmichael, MA
One College Hill
Canton, MO 63435
Lindenwood
University
Randy Biggerstaff, MS
209 South Kings Highway
St. Charles, MO 63301
Missouri
State University
Tona Palmer Hetzler, EdD
901 South National Ave. Professional Building 160
Springfield, MO 65897
Missouri
Valley College
Karla Bruntzel, PhD
500 E. College
Marshall, MO 65340
Park
University
Thomas Bertoncino, MS
8700 N. W. River Park Dr.
Parkville, MO 64152
Saint
Louis University
Anthony Breitbach, PhD, ATC
Doisy College of Health Sciences
Allied Health Professions Building
3437 Caroline Street
St. Louis, MO 63104
atep@slu.edu
http://at.slu.edu
Southeast
Missouri State University
Craig Elder, PhD
One University Plaza, MS 7650
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Southwest
Baptist University
Todd John, MA
1600 University Avenue
Bolivar, MO 65613
Truman
State University
Michelle Boyd, MS
100 East Normal Street 122 Pershing Bldg.
Kirksville, MO 63501-4221
University
of Central Missouri
Brian Hughes, EdD
Humphreys 204
Warrensburg, MO 64093
William
Woods University
Anthony Lungstrum, MS
One University Avenue
Fulton, MO 65251
Accredited Programs in
other states
Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training
Programs
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