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Copyright © by Indiana State University                                                                                Clinical Practice in Athletic Training  
All rights reserved. ISSN Online 2577-8188                                                                     Volume 5 – Issue 2 – September 2022 
 

Clin AT – The Year in Review, 2021: An Outlet for the Clinician  
Matthew J. Rivera, DAT, LAT, ATC  
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 
 

  
Correspondence 
Dr. Matthew Rivera, 567 N 5th St, Terre Haute, IN 47809.  
E-mail: matthew.rivera@indstate.edu 
Twitter: @Maat_RiveraDAT 
 
Full Citation:  
Rivera MJ. Clin AT – the year in review, 2021: An outlet for the clinician. Clin Pract Athl Train. 2022;5(2): 1-2. 
https://doi.org/10.31622/2022/0005.02.1.      
 
A Look Back 

Clinical Practice in Athletic Training had a monumental year as we continue to evolve and grow as a 
journal. In total, Clin AT had 25 articles published across the three issues throughout the year. In 2021, we 
saw our first Special Issue published that elevates the voices of athletic trainers and patients who represent 
historically marginalized and minoritized populations in their role in healthcare and scholarship 
contributions. There was a total of seven articles published in this issue including disablement model case 
studies, evidence-to-practice reviews, and clinical outcomes research resulting in nearly 1,500 downloads 
since publication. We look forward to continuing special issue opportunities and will be announcing our 
next topic soon.  

Last year also saw both continued and growing partnerships with other organizations. We continued our 
partnership with the Athletic Trainers in Physician Practice Society (ATPPS) to publish the abstracts from 
their annual conference which included four abstracts this year, which can be found here. Furthermore, Clin 
AT is thrilled to announce a new partnership with the Southwest Athletic Trainers’ Association (SWATA) from 
NATA District 6 to publish their annual conference free communication professional track abstracts. As a 
result of this partnership, we published 10 abstracts from the 2021 SWATA conference. We are excited 
for the future of these partnerships and continued development of sharing the work that athletic trainers 
are doing.  

Lastly, we would like to thank the members of the editorial staff that have concluded their service to the 
journal. We want to thank Kim Barber Foss for her oversight as the section editor for the Point-of-Care 
Research section. Additionally, we want to recognize Ellie Rippy for her expertise and role as Copyeditor 
for the past two years. I want to personally thank them both for their time, dedication, and service to the 
journal. Without the contributions of the editorial staff, we would not be able to deliver the high-quality 
product that we do. We would like to also recognize our outstanding reviewers of the year for their 
dedication and quality of reviews provided in the last year: Dr. Kelly Brock, Dr. Kim Keely, Dr. Alicia Lacy, 
Dr. Nathan Newman, and Kacey Ohlemeyer.  

Journal Advancements  

Over the last year, the editorial staff has been working on advancements to elevate the process, 
timeliness, and quality of the journal. We have created a new section and manuscript style to the journal: 
Translational Research. With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and consequence of athletic training 
scholarship outlets closing, we want to offer authors an avenue to continue to share clinically relevant 
projects. Though this section is open to more traditional research designs, the focus should be clinically 

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applicable topics that are meaningful to clinicians and have impact for everyday clinical practice. You can 
find the full description of this section here. We want to emphasize our commitment to be a journal that 
focuses on practice-based research and clinician friendly resources to improve clinical practice.  

Additionally, we have made major revisions to our Preceptor Case Study section to expand the opportunity 
for authors, clinicians, mentors and teachers to share the meaningful work they are doing. The newly minted 
Clinical Mentorship Case Studies section encompasses papers that span a variety of topics such as clinical 
immersion from the preceptor perspective, designing quality patient interactions, and assessment of student 
growth during the clinical experience. You can find the full description of this new section here.  

Among our newest changes, we are working on changes to our submission process that are specifically 
targeted at improving the submission, review, and production procedures. As a journal that is sustained by 
only volunteers and do not charge article processing fees, these changes will help the editorial staff better 
serve the authors, reviewers, and readers. Starting Fall 2022, all authors who are submitting a new paper 
to the journal will be asked to use the corresponding template to the specific section. The template for each 
manuscript type can be located within the author guidelines for each of the different sections. Further, in an 
attempt to align with recommendations from the Strategic Alliance Research Agenda Task Force, authors 
will be asked to designate one of the five Research Agenda Priorities.1 The research priorities are:  Health 
Care Competency, Vitality of The Profession, Health Professions Education, Health Care Economics, and 
Health Information Technology. 

We continue to evolve as a journal, and we are happy to introduce new editorial team members. We 
want to welcome Dr. Ashley Marshall (Point-of-Care Research), J’nai Pittman (Clinical Mentorship Case 
Studies), and Dr. Kelsey Picha (Translational Research) as section editors. Dr. Justin Young has also joined 
the Editorial team as a Staff Editor. We are honored that each of these individuals have accepted the 
invitation to join the editorial team and offer their time, expertise, and knowledge to the journal.  

Finally, and most importantly we would like to recognize the reviewers and readers of Clinical Practice in 
Athletic Training. Without the invaluable contributions and service to the journal that our reviewers provide 
throughout the year, none of the other accomplishments would be possible. Particularly in a time where 
time seems to be scarce and athletic trainers are commonly asked to do more with less, we are immensely 
grateful. To our readers, we are thankful that you continue to turn to Clinical Practice in Athletic Training as 
one of the sources of information to advance and better the quality of care and education that you are 
providing to your patients, students, and stakeholders.  

References 

1. Eberman LE, Walker SE, Floyd RT, et al. The Prioritized Research Agenda for the Athletic Training 
Profession: A Report from the Strategic Alliance Research Agenda Task Force. J Athl Train. 
2019;54(3):237-244. https://doi.org/10.4085/1062-6050-374-18. 

 

 

 

 

http://clinat.indstate.edu/index.php/clinat/translationalresearch
http://clinat.indstate.edu/index.php/clinat/clinicalmentorshipcasestudy
https://doi.org/10.4085/1062-6050-374-18

