| If you are interested in athletic training (what you are calling athletic first aid), you need to go to an accredited institution. Athletic training is essentially sports medicine. To be an athletic trainer you need to be certified and to take the certification exam you must graduate from a college that has been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education. At their website you can search for institutions by state (http://caate.net/). If you would like more information on what an athletic trainer does, go to the National Athletic Trainers Association website (www.nata.org). |