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That is the person who, oh, wow, this is so fancy. Um That's the person who's running the show. A lot of times they're getting um their doctorate in athletic training, but they are a certified athletic trainer and everybody else on this list kind of becomes their assistant for the night. So you might see a staff athletic trainer who usually looks older than the head athletic trainer. Um And that's me or one of my coworkers who are kind of mentoring them. We're kind of the second hand on deck. You'll see some athletic training students, they might be high school, they might be undergrad students who are just interested in being athletic trainers. They are not allowed to practice independently of the head athletic trainer, but you might see them handing out water bottles doing some random stuff. Then you may see one or multiple team physicians, residents or fellows. Those are the people who are kind of in our back pocket when we need a second opinion when we need a decision to be made on if we should allow a kid to play or not. Um They're kind of our right hand. Um, guys and gals and like this says, you might see more residents or fellows, you might see a multiple med students which are obviously you, um you might see team managers, you might see coaches, chain gangs, administrators report camera crews, parents, like the list goes on and on when you're hanging out on the sideline on a Friday night. Um and I show you these people to you to show you that like you guys could easily get lost in a crowd if you don't make yourself known. So when you're covering on a sideline, um with us, if you're observing, if you're learning, make sure you come and introduce yourselves. Otherwise we're not gonna have any idea you're there and we want you to have um the best experience. So my goodness learning powerpoint. Um So more of the basics of making yourself known, I would recommend showing up 30 minutes um before kick off because that gives you time to introduce yourself and be a part of the medical time out. Kind of our medical time out is when all of the medical professionals ems get together and we kind of delineate roles of who's doing what in an emergency. Um You'll learn that the gates, the addresses, all of that kind of stuff. So if anything hits the fan, you're ready and you might have a role um to play. If you don't show up 30 minutes before kickoff, don't much, don't expect to get much from the athletic trainer, um, because once kickoff starts, like they are locked in and ready to go and they are on game and injury mode and don't really have time to back off the sideline to get you up to speed with where we're going for the day. I understand schedules get a little bit wonky and you might be in class or in a clinic or something like that, but golden standard just to kind of help you is show up 30 minutes before kick off to get well versed with wherever you're working. Um Next is dress like a medical professional but like don't be too fancy or you'll be super uncomfortable. Um So you wanna differentiate yourself from coaches, media, etcetera. Like, unfortunately, we don't know every resident fellow med student. So a lot of times they're covering our game for the first time and if you don't introduce yourself, you might get mistaken as just somebody else. And that's not because we hate you or anything like that. It's cause we just don't know any better half of the time. Um So I think if you take the steps early, you dress like a medical professional, we'll know like, ok, somebody's coming up in khakis, they're probably here to help us out. We should introduce ourselves if you don't introduce yourself first. So the top picture is a great example of something to wear. They're in polos, they're in cat keys, they're in tennis shoes. I would recommend wearing your badge. We're outside. So, hats are totally ok. The bottom picture not the most professional, they look more like they're ready to, um, run track than save lives. So I would go closer to the top picture than the bottom picture. You'll see some team physicians in jeans. I'm like, ok with that. I really don't care that much but try not to be an athletic apparel if you're coming from the, or, and you're in scrubs, totally get that too. Um, but if you have time, if you have the feasibility, that top picture is golden and what we're looking for. So, um, once the game starts observe, you're gonna get out of this experience, what you put into it. So when you get there, are you aware, um, are you aware of where the gates might be? Are you aware of where ems sets up? Are you aware of where all of our emergency equipment is kept? Those are great things to ask when you get there because you never know. And we're gonna look at you and say, hey, can you go grab this whatever that may be, um, follow the lead of the team physician, resident or fellow, I'm sure you guys aren't trying to become athletic trainers. So I would not stand on the athletic trainer's hip the whole time. Um, I would stand by the team physician because you're gonna wanna emulate what they're doing, um, during a game. Um, like I said before, the head athletic trainer is the one who runs the show. Um, everyone else kind of their assistant when it comes to game time and then team physicians, like I said before, they are, um, there to help us. They're kind of our next in command. They, we're, excuse me, we go to them to get second opinions, clearance opinions. Um, and kind of be our right hand person in emergencies. You'll see them a lot of times if we're, uh, evaluating a knee or a shoulder, they'll come up to us and kind of double check our work, which is totally appropriate, the more people who can feel all Lockman and make sure they feel an ac L obviously the better and then they kind of gauge our, um, return to play decision from there. So we kind of work together, but the athletic trainer is going to be kind of the first one that triages all of it, which kinda leads me to on field injuries. So, the only person that should run out first is the head athletic trainer. Um, sometimes you'll see the staff athletic trainer go out too, depending on how we feel about our doctorate, athletic trainer or what we see ha happen in the injury. Um, but team physicians usually only go out when called upon unless you see it kinda hit the fan from where you're at every once in a while, we see an injury and everybody goes sprinting because we see the leg pointing in the way the leg should not be pointing. Or our athletic trainer grabs c spine and it's all hands on deck. So when you're covering, I would just kinda ask the team physician or resident covering and be like, hey, if you run out, is it ok if I come with you or should I stay here and kinda let them guide what you wanna do because the athletic trainers have told them kind of what to expect from an on field injury standpoint. Um I would recommend standing on the sidelines and not in the background. Um, usually how it goes is the head athletic trainer is in kind of the mess of the athletes, they're right on the coaches hips so they can see everything that's going on and so that they can be seen. Um, what you'll see then is a group of other medical professionals. Usually the staff athletic trainer like myself or the team physician, resident, multiple fellows standing somewhere between the 25 yard line to the 25 yard line, depending on where the play is. That's an amazing place for you guys to stand as well unless you're asked to be somewhere else. Um, don't be the human standing behind on the track hanging on their phone or just eating popcorn from kickoff till the clock hits zero, you'll just get lost and you're not gonna get anything out of that. So if you're there just to check a box, go check a box elsewhere. If you're there to learn and everything, we cannot wait to have you on our sidelines. Um, and then ask questions. Um, that group kind of standing from 25 yard line to 25 yard line. We're always paying attention, but there's so much time to chat and learn while being engaged, what's with, what's happening on the field. Um, so if you see the athletic trainer team doc doing an eval go and watch it. If you see them functionally testing a kid to determine if they can go back to play in that game, go watch it and then come back to the peanut gallery of medical professionals and then ask any questions you might have based on what you saw. The head athletic trainer probably isn't the best one to ask questions too during the game, but would love to answer anything at half time or afterwards. But like staff, athletic trainers like myself, we're usually standing around, we can answer questions at any time when you don't see us actively taping or putting band aids on a kid or doing an injury. Eval there's plenty of people standing on the sidelines who would love to answer your questions. Um So emergency situations, um like I said before, know where the emergency equipment is. You should know where the A ed is. You should put eyes on the spine board, you should know what bag the rectal thermistors put in. You should eyeball, wear the cold water emergent is, you should know what bag the splints are in and be familiar with, um, the location you're at. What's the address? Where does Ems sit? Does Ems cover or are they, um, not, um, contracted to cover our game? And then where are the gates? Um, just be aware of the basics just in case we look at you and say, hey, I need you to go grab the A ed. So a little bit of spine boarding, that's probably the one emergency situation you would be actively called upon. Um, because we would rather have you who has a little bit of knowledge helping us out than a random coach who maybe not know. Um So here are just some basics. Our biggest thing is know what you know and know what you don't know. I would much rather you say I'm not comfortable with doing that then putting any of our kids in danger because you think you're expected to know something, we all know you're learning and we'll not second guess or judge anything you're not comfortable with. So if you don't know how to remove equipment, do not re remove equipment. If you haven't been trained in that yet, if you have athletic training background, if you have background where you learned that and you show up 30 minutes and you say, hey, I know how to do that. Awesome. We'll probably use you to do that because we need at least three medical professionals to be able to remove equipment. And we would like to be able to do that on the field versus getting them to the emergency room because we are more qualified to do that than some of the nursing staff and other hands on staff at the emergency room. But if you don't know it, let us know because, and we won't even think twice about it. The next one is just listen to the person at the head of the athlete in the spine boarding, whoever grabs the head, they make all the rules and we listen to them no matter who has the most experience. So like 99% of the time my doctorate student will grab the head over me. Um I probably have more experience than that. I've probably spine boarded, more people than them. But I become the assistant. The minute one of my students grabs the head of the athlete and the same goes to for our physicians. Our physicians have probably spine boarded, more people than me. But the minute our student grabs the head, which is 99% of the time, what's gonna happen. We start listening to them, um, in your free time as you're kind of sitting around learning, observing, educate yourself on a variety of roles. Like one game, you might have to go get the equipment. One game, you might be the one who has to go grab the spine board and position it. Do you know what you're doing? If we say, hey, can you grab the spine board? Will you be helping move the athlete or will you be calming the ham down? Who is slowly losing your mind because her baby can't feel his legs. Um, so educate yourself on a variety of roles and a variety of techniques. There's multiple ways to put a kid on a spine board and your head athletic trainer and your team physicians are gonna know what to use, depending on, um, the personnel they have. But are we gonna log roll, pull or log roll push? Are we gonna do a multi person lift if you're there, you're likely going to be called upon to do something and we'll put you in a role like we're probably not gonna have you close to the head, but you'd be a great person to be able to hold the hips or the feet and listen to the athletic train who's gonna tell you exactly what to do. It's pretty easy to jump in and help if you are good at listening and can speak up when you're not sure um about something. So, um, again, be ready and again, if you don't know what to do, speak up because we have no problem moving to the next man up in an efficient manner. Um But yeah, and this is the reason showing up for medical timeouts is important. Um A lot of roles are divvied out before kickoff. So every know everyone kind of has a good idea of what they're gonna do based on personnel presents. So the earlier you're there, the more hands on you might get to be. Um But, uh, otherwise man learn it, love it, observe it. Um, get a feel for what a Friday night on the field looks like it's literally my favorite thing to do, like I said before. Um and we are so happy that you're interested in hanging out with us and learning from us and we really hope to give you the best experience um possible. So with that being said, are there any questions on anything we kind of just went over and talked about?