2023 Annual Report

This year for the site was a huge success; there were over 13,000 visits compared to just 4,000 in the previous two years combined. This averages to about 31 visits per day. When I first launched the site, I was excited to get one or two visitors per day.

About half of the site traffic occurred between October 1st and December 31st. That little valley after July 1 was during some back-end migration due to Google selling their domain purchasing business to Squarespace. 

I also met my goal this year of appearing on an athletic training podcast, Athletic Training Chat. I had a great time with Joel and did most of the talking about my thoughts on continuing education and the future of athletic training education. Through my interview, I hope you can see my passion for the type and level of continuing education that we as athletic trainers need to continue to push for as our profession advances "up market" and we become more valuable healthcare providers.

I also want to take a moment to acknowledge a couple of providers for providing free continuing education for athletic trainers. 

1. Athletic Training Practice-Based Research Network

These folks are doing great work with the shoestring budget that they operate on. They are pumping out research and new athletic trainers at A.T. Still who are first-class clinicians. Big kudos to my mentor Dr. Tamara McLeod, Dr. Barton Anderson, Dr. Kenny Lam, Dr. Calie Welsh-Bacon, Dr. Kellie Huxel-Bliven, Dr. Kelsy Picha, Dr. Alison Valier, Sue Falsone, Dr. Curt Bay, Dr. Brian Hortz, Dr. Andrew Winterstein, Mark lausen, and Sara Brown. 

2. Gatorade Sports Science Institute

They have continually offered continuing education for athletic trainers, dieticians, and ACSM. I have watched several presentations from some of their sports scientists, and they seem to genuinely care about advancing nutritional performance research.

3. Andrews Sports Medicine Institute

   1. While I have not yet made the time to watch one of their lectures, the fact that they have continually offered sometimes up to 8x monthly live lectures that are available for free registration shows me that this organization is serious about advancing knowledge
      sports medicine and truly care about free access to information. 

I would also like to give the BOC some props. Since my audit in July they reworked their search tool and now it easily displays information that is quick and easy to understand and navigate. Moving forward, I hope that the BOC continues to make improvements to their search tool and hold ceu providers accountable for properly listing their courses and costs. 

My goal for 2024 is to continue to provide the easiest way to find free athletic training CEU's, finish my first post-DAT research study, and continue to contribute to sportsmedres.org. 

Don't pay for CEU's if you don't have to

-Mitch