Sports Medicine

Catalog description

This clerkship is a sub-internship in sports medicine that introduces the student to medicine as it relates to the athlete. Students will learn to complete a sports history and physical and will be able to identify and treat basic sports injuries of the head, neck, extremities, and torso. Sports medicine as it applies to the child and adolescent, the geriatric patient, and the female athlete will be covered. Ergogenic aids, drug use and doping methods will be discussed. Repeatable for credit with permission