PENNSYLVANIA
ATHLETIC TRAINERS'
SOCIETY
MISSION, VISION & BELIEFS
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Mission Statement
PATS empowers Athletic Trainers as thought leaders by advocating, educating, and fostering interdisciplinary relationships to enhance patient-centered health.
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Vision Statement
PATS will optimize the role of Athletic Trainers as leaders in healthcare and population health across the Commonwealth.
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Values Statement
The Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers' Society believes that the strength of this society is derived from the membership and the values we uphold. These values include:
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Possessing a deep passion for the athletic training profession
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Holding athletic training to the highest professional standards by practicing moral and ethical behaviors
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Encouraging the continuous improvement and advancement of the athletic training profession
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Demonstrating empathy for our clients
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Delivering current, quality, and evidence based health care
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Valuing a strong sense of family, both personally and professionally
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Recognizing and respecting diversity
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Serving as a resource for the public
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Valuing camaraderie and collaboration
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Exhibiting adaptive, flexible, and creative solutions
CODE OF ETHICS
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Process for Filing a Complaint Against a Commonwealth Athletic Trainer
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Complaints about Commonwealth AT's (filed through this site)
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Preamble
The Code of Ethics sets forth ethical standards, obligations, and responsibilities that an Athletic Trainer exercises in carrying out his/her professional responsibilities. The Code of Ethics also instills the member's obligation to promote the value and importance of Athletic Training and the Athletic Trainer. Related Standards of Practice further define those ethical standards and obligations as set forth in the Code of Ethics.The Standards of Practice serve as a guide for the individual Athletic Trainer in the everyday conduct of his/her professional duties.
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CODE OF ETHICS (revised 2014)
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FORMS
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To find out more information about PATS, feel free to E-Mail any member of the PATS Executive Board. If you are interested in becoming a member, CLICK HERE to complete our online application.
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PATS HISTORY
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Our founders met, identified the need for a state organization and decided on the name, the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers Society (PATS), during the year 1975. They envisioned an organization that would be more than an athletic training association. They founded a “medical society” to address the challenges of the day (i.e. licensure), and wanted to meet its members additional interests and concerns about Athletic Training in PA.
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The initial meeting of PATS (and official starting date) was June 12, 1976 at the N.A.T.A. Convention in Boston (in the Boston-Sheraton Hotel). During that first meeting, PATS appointed Acting Officers, formed a Licensure Committee, and ratified a Constitution.
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The question; “who founded PATS?” may be difficult to answer accurately. However, much of the credit must go to the athletic trainers (listed below) who were present at that initial meeting in Boston, and/or who participated in key organizational activities for PATS in 1975-76. Those whose names are underlined, served as the original acting officers, or licensure committee members, or served on the first key committees (nomination, constitution & by-laws) that formalized PATS.
Their efforts will always be appreciated.
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Paul Slocum, Dave Tomasi, Richard Burkholder, Joe Godek, Charles McNarron, Otho Davis, Tim Kerin, Chuck Medlar, Ted Quedenfeld, Hal Biggs, Jim Dalrymple, Phil Donley, Ron O’Neil, Bruce Vogelsong, Robert Shank, John Wogan, Eddie Sulkowski, Richard Morsch, Roberta Koerner, Paul Butler, Rod Bimpson, Kip Smith, Francis Stannard, John Powell, Jim McKenzie, Steve Bair, Joe Iezzi, Dan Kaegerreis, Harvey Emmert, Tom Murphy, Joe DiBlasio, Davis Dunbar, Carmel Bonito, Ken Carson, Richard Crey, Mark Keppler, Beth Bisbano, Donald Frey, Gareth Biser.
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Approximately 25% of PATS membership dues are allocated for lobbying.
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