Do these calls get recorded? Interested because I’ll be working at the time of most meetings looks like.

@Jenna Doggett great question and that is biggest fear!! When my wife and I moved back to the Midwest I took any job I could find and it was in PM&R and there were 2 ATs (including myself) and it was a great gig. I had a lot of autonomy and the physician was amazing. In Wisconsin an ATs evaluation holds weight and I can perform full evaluations and document and it holds in court so I got to make decisions on diagnoses and treatment plans and 95% of the time the provider trusted my judgement. Unfortunately the clinic was an hour away and we have a baby on the way so the new clinic, yes. It’s a hybrid of AT and sometimes feeling like an MA. But I’m also new and training and the plan is for me to see my own patients without a provider on occasion. I’m now working with 3 providers that have sports med certifications but are family practice doctors so there great but like spending a lot of time with their patients which gives me less to do sadly. Which is why sometimes I do MA work. From my experience it comes down to the physician but ultimately working in a specialty clinic gives more autonomy. My mindset is that at the end of the day I did the cool stuff of pro ball, but now I have a steady schedule, weekends free, when I leave work I don’t get any late night calls, and most importantly I can be a present partner and future father. It all depends where your priorities lie and family is everything to me. Plus if I need a fix of athletes there’s always Go4 and I can pick up shifts there. But also why I’m looking at the independent cash based clinic too because I like the performance training and recovery a lot. Big sports science guy haha. But I digress. Long winded way to say it depends on the provider and clinic. If the first clinic were closer I’d stay there for a while.

@Josie Grigsby thank you for the insight!! super excited to become a parent!! Yeah with where I live and my previous experience as an athlete and athletic trainer I was thinking high level collegiate or men’s league rugby with the occasional baseball athlete. But ultimately just a high motor individual (even a weekend warrior) that wants performance guidance along with recovery techniques.