Athletic Trainer
- Exam
- Third-party exam
- Education
- Degree
- Experience
- None
- Background check
- Specific type of conviction prohibited
An Athletic Trainer is an individual who engages in athletic training. Athletic training means preventing, recognizing and evaluating athletic injuries, managing and administering the initial treatment of athletic injuries, giving emergency care or first aid for an athletic injury, and rehabilitating and physically reconditioning athletic injuries. AUTHORIZING STATUTE: Except as provided under Wisconsin Statute 448.952, no person may designate himself or herself as an athletic trainer or use or assume the title "athletic trainer", "licensed athletic trainer", "certified athletic trainer", or "registered athletic trainer" or append to the person's name any other title, letters or designation that represents or may tend to represent the person as an athletic trainer, without a license from the credentialing board.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- Third-party exam required
- Education
- Degree required
- Continuing education
- Continuing education required
- Certification
- Certification required
- Experience
- No experience
- Background check
- Specific type of conviction prohibited
Issuing body
- Department
- WI Department of Safety and Professional Services
- Division
- Division of Professional Credential Processing
- Address
- 1400 E. Washington Ave. P.O. Box 8935 Madison, WI 53708
- Phone
- (608) 266-2112
- Agency website
- https://dsps.wi.gov/Pages/Professions/Default.aspx
- Last updated
- December 15, 2020
Occupations (O*NET)
- Athletic Trainer 29-9091.00
Source and verification
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