Certification

ARTI Exam Dates 2025

1. Date Friday 10th January, Venue: Dublin City University.                               

Exam Start Time 10am (Registration from 9.15am)

Purchase Exam Here

Please note you can currently only register for the August exam.  Once you have purchased the exam and received a receipt of payment you are registered. You will receive further information 14 days before the exam via email.

Registration for exams closes strictly 14 days before the exam date on the 27th of December at 10am.  All exams are held in person.

*To be eligible to sit the examination as an ARTI member, candidates must have paid ARTI membership fees for the calendar year.  Memberships run from 31st of July to the 31st of July the following year.  Alternatively, if you are a student from an ARTI-accredited programme looking to sit the exam for the first time you can purchase the exam through the online shop.

To become a certified member of ARTI and be authorised to use the title ‘Certified Athletic Therapist’ (CAT), applicants must graduate from an ARTI-accredited programme and pass the ARTI certification exam. The certification exam consists of a theory examination and a score of 70% is required to be successful. As part of the certification process, the requirements to become certified are a relevant NFQ Level 8 from an ARTI-accredited programme, up-to-date EFR and 500 clinical hours.

Minimum Requirements

Applicants must meet the following educational and professional criteria in order to be eligible to sit the certification examination. These include:

• Honours Degree (NFQ level 8) in a field related to Sports Medicine from an ARTI-accredited 3rd level institution*
• Emergency First Responder Certification (EFR) from the ‘Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council’ (PHECC) – or demonstrated equivalent. An in-date Cardiac First Responder Certification (CFR) is required for an EFR to be valid. More on EFR requirements here.

*ARTI accredited programmes are;

• BSc. in Sport Rehabilitation and Athletic Therapy, South East Technological University, Carlow.
• BSc. in Athletic Therapy and Training, Dublin City University.
• BSc. in Athletic and Rehabilitation Therapy, Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone.

Once you are in the final semester of an ARTI-accredited course or have completed an ARTI-accredited course, hold the relevant EFR Certification and have completed the minimum clinical hours, you are eligible to sit the exam. First, you must register here and then purchase the relevant exam here. For information on the certification examination date and times please click here.

Students in their final semester of an ARTI-accredited programme are entitled to sit the ARTI certification examination. If this examination is passed successfully, certified membership status will be pending until demonstration of successful completion of the academic programme.

The International Arrangement provides an opportunity for BOC, CATA and BASRaT certified/registered Athletic Trainers, Athletic Therapists and Sports Rehabilitators to be mobile on a global scale and challenge the ARTI certification exam. For more details please see International.

ARTI Exam Dates 2025

Key Dates 

1. January 10th, taking place in Dublin City University
2. June 6th, taking place in TUS Midlands (Athlone)
3. August 22nd, taking place in SETU Carlow

Exams can be purchased online through the following link website shop. For any questions, reach out to the Certification committee at certification@arti.ie.