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the student’s educational experience. A student enrolled in the ATP is required to attend and actively participate inall scheduled/assigned clinical experiences. Therefore all athletic training students will be required to attend and beactively involved in all ATP clinical experiences as assigned. Additionally, being “tardy” for any clinical assignmentwill be considered an absence under the terms of this policy. Students are expected to be ready to initiate the clinicalassignment at the designated time. Those students not ready, including appropriate dress and equipment, to initiatethe clinical assignment as described will be considered tardy. Roll will be taken at the clinical assignment andclinical instructors are not obligated to amend the roll for students arriving after that time. Furthermore, faculty maychoose to refuse admittance to anyone who arrives late to the clinical assignment (dismiss student).Please note that athletic teams may alter scheduled practices and games without warning or notice; it is ourrequirement that these events receive the same consideration and attendance as all other events. At no time is anyoneother than the supervising preceptor allowed to excuse a student from a clinical experience. Those requests forexcused absences (including dates and reason) must be submitted in writing to the Clinical Education Coordinatorone week prior to the absence. These documents will be kept on file in the ATS’s portfolio. Failure to comply withthis procedure will result in the absence being treated as unexcused/unapproved.Understandably, there will be times when absences cannot be pre-approved (illness, family emergency, etc).These will be dealt with at the discretion of the Program Director. It is the student’s responsibility to communicatewith all appropriate instructors and staff when these instances do arise. Again, the student should make every effortin advance of the absence to follow this notification procedure. Only extreme circumstances will be considered bythe Program Director.Athletic training students may occasionally be absent from clinical assignments while engaging in another aspectof athletic training education (traveling with a team, taking an athlete to the physician, etc.) In these instancesstudents are encouraged to provide advance notice to his/her supervising preceptor. Habitual tardiness or absencefrom clinical assignments will be addressed by the following guidelines:Records of absences and tardies will become a part of the student’s permanent record. Any student who is tardyor absent from assigned clinical experiences will be reprimanded by the following guidelines:• Second Absence: the student will be assigned an additional one week rotation in morningtreatment/rehabilitation.• Third Absence: the student will be suspended from on – campus clinical experiences for 1 calendar week.At no time will the student be allowed to participate in any athletic training events or clinical experiences oncampus during this week.• Fourth Absence: the student will be removed from primary sport(s) assignments and fulfill all clinicalexperience hours within the Athletic Training Facility at hours approved by the ATP staff.• Fifth Absence: the student will be removed from all on-campus athletic training events and clinicalexperiences for the remainder of the semester. Other measures including suspension from the ATP may beimposed at the discretion of the Program Director in consultation with the Athletic Training faculty.• In all cases a record of this negligence will be placed in the student’s permanent folder which will factor into consideration for continuance in the program.ATHLETIC TRAINING STUDENT OBLIGATIONSAthletic training students are obliged to follow guidelines set by this department relating to the performance oftheir tasks. Athletic training students are expected to follow these parameters as closely as possible. The obligationsare as follows:1. Answer only to the Preceptor and/or Supervising Athletic Trainer2. Work conducted outside of clinical responsibilities must be voluntary or fiscally compensated (e.g. laundry,equipment, and/or clock management)3. Volunteer or fiscally compensated work must not interfere with clinical responsibilities4. CAATE regulations state athletic training students will not be viewed or treated as a “work force.”Availability• Arrive at practice at least 30 minutes or more as indicated before the beginning of practice and remain until allpost-practice activity is complete or until dismissed.• Be in the athletic training facility to assist with morning and night treatments during your scheduled hours.• Schedule all personal appointments away from athletic training facility and clinical hours.22