Athletic Training Residency and Graduate Fellowship
Two paths to advanced experience, credentials and leadership in athletic training.
Residency and Fellowship Requirements
- All applicants should be BOC-certified or BOC-certified eligible, having completed — or nearing completion of — their undergraduate studies when they apply.
- Participants commit to a 1-year term for the Residency, a 2-year term for a Master's Fellowship, or a 4-year term for a Doctoral Fellowship.
- All applicants should submit a general application.
Residency Program Benefits
- Two didactic tracks of emphasis: Rehabilitation, and Healthcare Leadership and Administration
- Advanced credentialing and specialization
- Hands-on advanced experiential development with partners specific to your residency track
- Relocation/moving assistance
- Monthly salary
- Financial support for continuing education activities
- Professional liability insurance
- BOC, NATA and state licensure fees
- Uniform
- PRN opportunities ranging from $5–10k per year
Fellowship Program Benefits
- Fully funded tuition and fee waivers
- Free textbooks and required course materials
- Adjunct teaching opportunities
- Research opportunities with local research partners
- Relocation/moving assistance
- Monthly salary
- Financial support for continuing education activities
- Professional liability insurance
- BOC, NATA and state licensure fees
- Uniform
- PRN opportunities ranging from $5–10k per year
Education
Residents and fellows build their skills through intensive advanced practice in athletic training clinical education programming, with placements at secondary schools and community colleges.
Fellows enroll in a master's or doctoral program through one of our partner universities, Concordia University Chicago or Concordia University St. Paul. Degree programs run two to four academic years, and all coursework is delivered online. Residents choose an emphasis track when they apply and are accepted.
All residents and fellows must hold BOC certification and a Missouri state license before taking on independent clinical appointments.
Our University Partners
Advanced Experience
When they're not working at their schools, participants work on site with a partner professional matched to their residency track or fellowship emphasis — orthopedic surgeons, physical therapists, chiropractors, registered dietitians, sports psychologists and healthcare administrators — and take part in daily operations, with a focus on experiential development and practical application.
Hands-On Experience
All residents and fellows are placed at schools, where each serves as the head athletic trainer with full autonomy. Athleticare staff and faculty mentor them as they move into practice, managing clinical care for student-athletes at practices, games and other sport events.
Participants gain experience in healthcare leadership and administration, strength and conditioning, physical therapy, injury assessment and prevention, nutrition, mental health, manual techniques and rehabilitation — and, most importantly, the independence that comes from building and leading their own sports medicine program.
Start your application.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.