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All right, I think we can probably get, go, go ahead and get going. So we, uh thanks everybody for hopping on. I know you guys are busy in genetics and, or currently fighting through Derm. Um Today we have, uh MS Caitlin, she is a athletic trainer here at us and she does a bunch of the high schools around in the area. She is kind of the boss of some of the athletic trainers, so she knows what she's talking about. Um So she's just gonna kinda give a little bit of a spiel on the sideline coverage if you guys are interested in that, what to expect. Um And kind of the best way to go about it in terms of etiquette, um and how to handle yourself on the sidelines to make it easier for both yourself to have a good experience and make it easier on the physician who's, you know, donating their time to be there for you guys. So with that Kaylin, you can go ahead and take it away. Awesome. Um Well, first off, thank you guys so much for being interested um in sports medicine. I'm biased cause I'm an athletic trainer, but I absolutely love what we get to do. Um I absolutely love helping people and I love just providing a service to high schoolers in schools who some times might not otherwise be able to afford what we can give them. Um O SM I and UF Health as a whole. Why are they? Where's my phone? Sorry, two physicians are accidentally facetiming me. Um Anyways. Um so there's some things cool cause we service some kind of inner city, super low income schools and O sm I will never turn away a high school athlete. Um No matter what. So if they show up at our doors, we're gonna see him and we're gonna treat them like a Florida Gator, football, basketball, any kind of Florida gator athlete um as well. So super huge. Thank you for being interested in what we're doing, being interested in collaborating with the physicians, the athletic trainers and everybody else um in taking kind of the best care of our student athletes that we can. So please take down my email address if y'all need anything, if you have any questions um from sideline coverage. If you're trying to get on to some sidelines for games and that kind of thing or run into any issues, please do not hesitate to email me um and reach out and ask anything that you might need um that we can go to the next slide. So here's who you might um see on the sideline, um, on a night. So you're gonna see your head athletic trainer. They are usually the ones, um, most of the people you'll run into are doctorate athletic training students. They are certified athletic trainers, meaning they can function on their own without anybody kind of over them. They have, they are credentialed, they're certified license. Um, but they have chosen to go and get their doctorate or an advanced degree to some extent. Um You might see a staff athletic trainer that would be myself. Um You might run, run into Cassie, Toby Liz. Um We are athletic trainers who kind of work here and out in our high or here at O SM, I'm at O SM. I, that's why I said here um at O SM I with our physicians and then out in the schools as well, kind of supervising those D ATS as they kinda learn how to be athletic trainers and kind of really jump 2 ft into working on their own. He won't see these as often because we're kind of breaking away from undergrad students and going more a master's doctorate route. But you might see some athletic training students, some water girls who wanna be athletic trainers, that kind of thing. Um You're gonna see team physicians, residents or fellows. Um You might see more residents and fellows that aren't necessarily dedicated team physicians of that school. You might see yourselves, um med students, you might see team managers you're gonna see coaches chain gang administrative reporters, Cameron Crew's parents, there's a lot of people on the sideline, um, on a Friday night. Um, and I'll explain why, um, knowing all of these roles is important, kind of as we go because if you show up and don't make yourself known as, hey, I'm a med student and scheduled to shadow you. We may never know you're there on a Friday night. So we want you to be proactive if you're going to one of our schools make yourself known. So you don't get lost in the crowd. We're not trying to be rude if we don't give you the time of the day. But if we know you're there, then we can actually kind of invest in you being there and give you the best experience versus you just coming and feeling like you were lost in the crowd and really didn't get to do or see a whole lot on that night. So the next two slides, um you can start with the first one. make sure you take a picture of this slide. These are all of our head athletic trainers in each of our schools. Um So as you get your kind of observation schedule, I would reach out to whoever the athletic trainer at that school is and introduce yourself and see if there's anything you need to know before you show up on a Friday. They'll give you information of like, hey, here's where to park. Here's where I wouldn't park. Here's the ticket takers name. Make sure you let them know kind of you're a med student or whatever, they'll give you what time kick off is what time you should be there and all of that kind of stuff. So it's kind of on you to reach out to them when you're kinda in this observation role. Um, our athletic trainers, they are responsible for kind of reaching out to myself and their team physicians, but we don't necessarily always know you're coming to see us on a Friday night. So just shoot us a quick email, say, hey, I'm coming and they'll give you all the information you need to know right off the bat. You can go to the next slide. Um These are also schoolss you might be scheduled to be at, they're a little bit further out of town. These are so, uh, Thomas, did you schedule anybody to go out to these outlying schools or are they mostly in town? Pretty much? Everyone on the schedule currently is like close to town. Nobody, nobody signed up to go out that far. Perfect. So these are some of our further schools, these are some of our staff, athletic trainers who are not getting their doctorate. So they're hired through O SM and do half time in clinic halftime out at their schools. So you could be put at one of those schools. But um you'll most likely be working kind of with our D ATS from the schools on the previous slide. Ok? You can go ahead and go to the next slide. Yeah, and to jump in real quick, you should have all those emails available on the sign up sheet. If you guys saw that, there should be a tab that says contact information and I tried my best to make sure that all of the athletic trainers that I've put on the list for coverage have their email on that contact sheet. Perfect. And just kind of trick of the trade. If you don't get an e if say you eat, I would wait to email your athletic trainer until the Monday of a lot of us are really good at knowing like our week but are not thinking two weeks ahead. Um I don't know how you guys work, but we do not like I sit down with my schedule on Sunday. So anything that's like two weeks out, I'm probably gonna miss. So if you're going on a Friday, I would wait to email that athletic trainer and tell that Monday or Tuesday. But then if you don't get it response by like Wednesday or Thursday, that's a reason to email me and just say, hey, I'm a med student going to this school. I haven't heard from that athletic trainer, um because they're, they know they're supposed to kind of respond to their emails within 24 hours. So if you don't get a response kind of by Thursday, let me know and I'll make sure, you know what the deal is or I'll get them kind of in contact with you that way. Ok. Um, so some of our basics again, I kinda said make yourself known. Um, I would show up about 30 minutes before kickoff so you can make sure you put a face to the athletic trainer that you're kind of working with so that they can get you kind of well acquainted with, um, the physicians, working, whoever's working. Um, we all do a medical time out before the game where the refs and kind of the Ems and coaches and whatever, sometimes they're three individual meetings. But if you're there on time, you can see how some of those go down. If you're not there on time, then you kind of miss all of like the pre stuff that goes into making a Friday night work. Um, so showing up early is a really great way to not be kinda left behind, um, unintentionally and then just make sure you dress like a medical professional. Um, we're gonna be wearing khaki shorts or pants, polos, tennis shoes, we wear our athletic training ids. Um, so I would do the same, um, hats are totally fine, um, for our outdoor sports. So if you're a hat wearer, that's totally fine. Um, but just make sure you're dressed kinda like the medical staff and not like the coaching staff and that'll kinda help identify you as, um, somebody who's also supposed to be there. Um You can go ahead and go to the next slide. Um Just some more etiquette and tips of the trade. You're gonna get out of this experience, kind of what you put into it. So, I am totally fine if you show up when you wanna show up, leave, when you wanna leave and don't say anything to anybody, I don't recommend it. Um, but if you show up, if you introduce yourself, if you make yourself known, um, you're gonna get way more out of this experience. Um, um, when you show up, I would be aware of where all the emergency equipment is kept. Like, if you kinda know where stuff is, you might be called upon to be like, hey, can you go grab that splint bag if you're going out kind of to observe an emergency, I would know where the emergency equipment is because if you got khaki shorts on, if you got a polo on, you got a badge on, you're probably gonna be put to work. So I would just like make note of it a lot of times it in a red bag like, um, or it's gonna be by the spine board and that kind of stuff. Um, I would say your best bet is to follow the lead of at the team physician resin or fellow. Um, that because that's what you aspire to be one day, um, is probably who you're gonna get the most out of when you kinda ask questions and they are going to be a lot less busy than the athletic trainer. Now, if you see the athletic trainer, like doing an Eval, kind of on the sideline, totally. Ok to walk over there and just kind of see what they're doing. A lot of times our team physicians will walk over there. Um, our team physicians know this 99% of the, I'm the head athletic trainer runs, um, the show. So the team physician is kind of there to give second opinions. They will give their clearance opinion and they're kind of that right-hand person in the emergency setting. So, um, yeah, so I would really follow their lead. I would stand on the sidelines and not in the background. A lot of times we show up and kind of our team physicians or our med students are just kind of standing along the fence. Um, I'd stand on the sideline a lot of times you'll see the team physicians and they'll kinda hang out from like 25 yard line to 25 yard line. Um, I wouldn't be in the thick of all the nasty dudes, like, leave that to the athletic trainers. Um, unless you're like, get really tight with your athletic trainer and wanna stand by them. I'm totally fine with that. Um, but I would stand not in the background. Um, just be mindful of your cell phone usage. Um, you'll see us sometimes the athletic trainers, the head athletic trainers are very rarely on their phone. Sometimes you'll see us on our phone. We give, we have like a Friday night group chat where we give game score updates to kind of everybody else in the area. Um, but a few reasons if you're on the sideline, you could very well get trucked over. So I would just, if you're on your phone, pay attention, um, to what's happening around you. So you're not the med student who's on their tail. Um, and then ask questions but make sure they're at appropriate at times with the team physicians, you're gonna be able to ask all the questions in the world because there's just like a little huddle of us. I'm not a team physician, but I'll stand by them sometimes. Um, there's a little bit of a huddle of us and we just kind of shoot the breeze and watch for anything to hit the fan. Um, I would be very careful at what time you ask the athletic trainer questions. Um, that's just typically a read the room situation if they have sweat from head to toe because they have not stopped moving the whole game. Probably not the time to be like, oh, by the way, what, what did you do there? But at half time when they're just chilling after the game before the game like all of, I love all of our students. They are all very personable. So please um ask them questions, but our physicians, residents and fellows, um they're gonna for sure, give you the answers kind of that you're looking for as you continue to, to aspire to kind of be in their shoes. Um One day. All right, you can go to the next slide. Um So again, here's some emergency situations you might, um, run into. Um, and that's why we need to know where our emergency equipment is. So usually, um, our aes, our spine boards, our rectal thermistors and our splints are gonna kind of be in the same, same area. And then hi, and then our cold water immersion tank when you get to the field, just pay attention to kind of where that is. It's gonna be a big Rubbermaid tank with a bunch of ice chests and that's what we would use kind of in a heat stroke scenario. Um, and then just be familiar with where you're at, if you know where you're going, just kinda know the address or have it written down somewhere. Um, pay attention to where Ems is located or where the gates are. Um, that Ems would come through and that's, again, you never know what you're gonna be called to do when you're in a khakis in a polo. Um, and then also just know your limitations. It is ok if our athletic trainer says hey, will you go do this? And you're like, hey, I don't know how to do that. Like I would rather, you just say, hey, I'm not comfortable with that and step to the side than not know what you're doing in a life or death situation and just kind of fake it till you make it. Like there's times to fake it till you make it and there's times to not in life and death situations just kinda know your limitations from that standpoint. All right, you can go on to the next slide. Has anybody practiced spine boarding before? Has anybody had the spine b before some familiar? Some, some not. Ok, cool. So, um, again, with spine boarding kind of in those emergency situations, it's a big know what you know. So have you guys done this as a group yet in like equipment removal or anything like that? No. Ok. Um, so what we do kind of in a spine boarding scenario is we will only re remove equipment if there are three trained providers to do so. So if you happen to be present and are in that medical time out and there is like an athletic trainer and maybe another athletic trainer and you as the third, just make sure you say like, hey, I don't know how to do that. So we're not counting three medical providers. Does that make sense? Cool. Um And then if you're in that situation, like our coaches are allowed to help us spine board. So you guys having some sort of medical background, we would want you there and available in a spine boarding situation and all your job is to do is to listen to the person at the head of the athlete who is most likely going to be one of the athletic trainers when it, this is kind of just good sideline etiquette in general. Our athletic trainer is gonna run out first. Our team physicians really never run out side by side with them unless like they can tell limbs are sticking ways, limbs are not supposed to. Um And then really our team physicians will be kind of utilized when they get back to the sideline. Um So a lot of times the athletic trainer will run out and then if there's a supervising athletic trainer and the other athletic trainers taking kind of a long time will kind of mosey on out. So don't be like hip on hip running out with them. Um, or it'll just kind of stress everybody out and everybody will think probably something is super wrong. Um And then again, educate yourself on a variety of rules, kinda look stuff up ahead is, will you have to get equipment? Will you have to grab the spine board and position it? What does that look like? Are you gonna be helping move the athlete? What would that look like? Um, will you be calming down the mom who's losing her mind. That would be a great job for any of you to do. Like, crowd control is probably the easiest thing that anybody can do. And it's actually super helpful. Um, when the athletic trainer, the people kind of at the head of the athlete don't also have to worry about, um, the mom who's losing her mind. Kind of a good tip and trick of the trade is if you see a mom losing her mind, like go and ask her like, hey, do you have your child's insurance information? A lot of times it'll be in the stands and she'll be like, oh no, I have to go grab it and, and you'll say, ok, could you go grab that for me that keeps them busy um and doing a task while we're kind of taking care of their child. So keep that in your back pocket. Um educate and research multiple techniques. Will we do a log roll versus a log roll? Push if we have five people or do we have enough people to do an eight person lift? How would you be involved in any of those um scenarios? And um that's another reason showing up for the medical time out is important because it helps us plan and kinda know. Ok, I have this many people because when we're sitting on a sideline nine times out of 10, they're, we're thinking like, ok, if this happens, what am I gonna do? If this happens, what am I gonna do? And we kind of just sit in that thought the whole time. So then when something does happen, we're ready, but then we know, ok, if somebody gets lights knocked out, I have five people. I'm in a log roll type of thing. Um I think you can go to the next slide. So that's um basically the etiquette um of just like, man, we love having y'all out there. We want you out there, we want you to get as much as this, as much of this out of it as you can just make sure we know you're there. Um And obvious it seems silly but it's in the powerpoint probably because those who have come before you have not known and then they're like, well, I've had this terrible shadowing experience and it's like, well, did you let us know you were there and if you go and do all the things and you still have a not great experience, like, please let me know because we're human and we're not perfect either. Um And so if it's something we can do better, I wanna know about it so I can make sure to tell my athletic trainers like, hey, they showed up like, you don't have to like be their best friend, but we also need to be respectful and respectful of your time wanting to learn and wanting to be there and that kind of thing. What questions. Do you all have about anything in general? Sideline athletic trainers, team physicians, anything at all? Nothing have. Go ahead. I was just gonna say, um, I did this a couple of times last year. Um, just some other kind of advice. Um, there's a lot of times you'll just be hanging out with the doctor if there's no injuries going on in the field, which is a good thing, obviously that there's no injuries. Um, but pay attention, like, try to be engaged with what's going on in the field because there's a lot of times somebody might go down, the athletic trainer runs out and the doctor's gonna look over at you and be like, did you just see what happened or like, did you see what are they hurt? Did they fall like, or could they be concussed and if you're prepared and like, are engaged with that, that kind of goes a long way. Um And you can also kinda see if somebody is injured and you saw something wonky on the play then that's like, oh, maybe that could cue me into what might have happened or like, you can kind of talk to the physician like, hey, I just saw their ankle roll this way. Like, what do we think happened or it just is a way to like, be more engaged in the game when there is kind of downtime associated with it? Yeah, perfect. That's great advice. Did anybody go out last Friday night. Hasn't, did anybody go out at all? Not yet. Ok. Anybody going out this Friday night? Where are people going on Friday night? Anybody? No. Right. I know a couple of you guys are signed up on the list. When are you guys headed out? Everybody's muted. I'll put myself on there in just a sec. Uh It looks like the 30th. Ok. Call home versus Bishop has. Yeah, I was just looking to see, I'm, I'm the 30th at, uh, ok, sweet. Yeah, this doctor. Great. I don't know who will be out there. Our, our athletic trainer, Madison out there. She's so funny. She's great. Um, you'll love her and I'm trying to think who their team physician is. It's, uh, Michael o'brien, isn't it? It's de de la. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he's good too. I've worked with him here a couple of times. Well, cool. Well, as you guys get rolling, man, I hope you love it. Um, Friday nights are my favorite part of my job for the most part. Um, because it's just a bunch of communities coming out to watch kids hit some kids and there's a lot of pride in a lot of our high schools and it's just a lot of the refs have been around a long time. A lot of the coaches have been around a long time. Um, and they really like all encomp, all encompassing support what we do. Um, not only as athletic trainers, but as UF health as a whole, um and you guys get to be a part of that, which is, I think super cool. I think um our high school athletic training program and the physicians that kind of help us do what we do, like we are paving the way for what kind of that relationship looks like and caring for high school athletes. Um And I think it's just super cool to be a part of it and I'm thankful that you guys want to be a part of it. So if I can help your experience in any way, please do not hesitate to ask cause I want you to literally leave here saying like, wow, I cannot wait to be a team physician one day and get to work with like my own set of athletic trainers. So if I can do anything at all for you guys as you kinda continue your education, please don't hesitate to reach out and I work with doctor Roach. So if he's mean to you, please let me know and I'll make sure that's not the case anymore. Thank you so much, Caitlyn. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely. Have a good rest of your week and yeah, reach out if you need anything at all. Awesome. Thank you. Yup. Bye. If anybody has any other questions at all, uh feel free to, I'll stay behind for a couple of minutes. Um Otherwise, thanks for coming out. Um, and hopefully you guys sign up for some sideline shadowing coming up. Um, we do have most of the spots that I've signed up for are gonna have physician coverage. There's a few that I put the athletic trainer, but like Caitlin was saying, um, the athletic trainers are very busy because they're kinda running the show. So they won't always have as much time to answer questions about everything. Um, So the best experience you probably have in terms of time to actually ask a lot of questions would be when there's physician coverage. Um And I believe PK Young actually has Kelly Harkins who's apa she's covering that and she's sign of the school. Um So if we have any PA S in here as well, that's a good opportunity to sign up. And PK Young is like right down the street, so it's very accessible. Yeah, I just put my name for East Side, Holtz and he just looks like that looks like that'll be a good game. I was like, I want to pick the best one. So, yeah, the games that are gonna be good. It like Holtz is always good. Newberry Hawthorn, um G HS East side, like those are all like the bigger schools with a bigger following. Um And we'll play some good games in the area. Be a fun one. Hawthorn could potentially be a state champion like a state champion. So they're fun to hang around and we'll usually have a physician at their games too because they have a physician contract. Yeah. And you can see, uh, there's some of those schools that'll have guys that'll be playing for UF next year or some of the schools like the big B1 schools like Betz especially, typically has a couple of guys that UF is recruiting to try to get on the field. So you'll notice that they are just bigger and larger than everybody else on the field. So that's another reason, um, to stand, kind of like, not directly behind the team, uh, but a little bit to the side because you'll find yourself stuck behind people and you're like, oh, I can't see anything right now. Yeah. All right. Any other questions or anything? All right. Thank you guys very much. Uh Look forward to seeing you guys out there, um, and have a good night. Thank you.