Sports Medicine

Abimael Arroyoand & Emilio Casas - January 9th, 2024

One person can make a change. Ms. Park is a well beloved teacher at Pioneer High School. Not only does she teach emergency med  and sports med students to get onto the field and attend every sports event, she is also an EMT herself in her outside school hours.

Ms. Park has had her EMT license and registration not long after she got out of high school.

You could have also spotted Ms. Park at events outside of school, due to her trying to help the community. Ms. Park  likes to attend many events as well as search and rescues as an EMT.

With all this experience, Ms. Park is able to teach the students of Pioneer how to further develop their knowledge and skills. 

“Most of the medical pathway class are actually new to pioneers” stated by Ms. Park, and she really likes the new pathways because Ms. Park will teach the students sports med.

Since these are new  classes that have barely had their 3rd year students finally start the 3rd year of the course. Ms. Park needs to use her past background to come up with lesson plans to teach  more about the real world emergencies. Some of her past background consists of her years of teaching and experience outside of school, where she teaches adults to become EMT’s.

To be part of the student athletic trainers, you start out in the very first class called med bio which teaches you the basic biology of the human body.The second step is emergency med 1 and sports med 1  which teaches about the anatomy, as a matter of fact you are able to receive your CPR and first aid certification just by taking this class.The following year, the capstone of everything emergency med 2 and sports med 2. This is almost like an internship class and more hands on.

“The last year of emergency med 2 and sports med 2  teaches you how to tape, wrap ankles, splint something, stop bleeding, and use a backboard. So, we’re learning all sorts of various different things that you would use on the field, that they are able to use” Ms. Park.

Thanks to Ms. Park’s students in emergency medicine and sport medicine,  Athletes now have trainers out on the field to attend to any injuries. When asked how long it takes for her trainers to fully be trained she says that it is a 3 year process for her students,  but it is all about applying what they learned in real world situations. 

Ms. Park sends her students out to help train with their choice of sport during their second year,  so they can apply themselves in real world situations.The school and Ms.park  recommend that students who want to learn more about medicine take these classes. This can help students with the pathway. 

 Her experience helps her show her students what it is like in emergencies. An emergency was the “aftermath” of what the sports trainers did before. They handle the stuff in the hospital. 

Not only does she teach but she also is the leader of the Sports Medicine Club for any students that could not take the class, but still want to learn and be out on the field as trainers.

Ms. Park always gives back to her community with her time and care to the student athletes as well as people that want to be trained for any other medical things. She is a great help to her students especially who are learning from her experiences so that they would follow their same path.