Are exercise physiologists concerned about their future?
The short answer is YES, especially given the array of e-mails to ASEP regarding the lack of jobs, poor pay scale, little to no medical coverage, the lack of respect, and the public’s misundertanding of who they are and what they do. Their e-mails even speak of PhD exercise physiologists who tell them that they aren’t exercise physiologists until they have a master’s degree and have published in scientific journals! No wonder they are confused. Just when they need help at graduation from an exercise physiology (science) curriculum, they are told that they aren’t exercise physiologists. 2. Are there indications in the hospital settings that working as an exercise physiologist in the clinical setting is getting difficult if not impossible? YES, it is a challenge for many exercise physiologists who are academically prepared to work with cardiopulmonary patients yet, instead, are subject to assisting the physical therapist assistant! Nurses and occupational therapist prescrib exercise and
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