Sports Medicine In Family Medicine. 4 Credit Hours

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This 4 week outpatient Sports Medicine elective focuses on the evaluation of sports-related injuries, overuse injuries, and chronic debilitating orthopedic musculoskeletal conditions. Students will work and interact with Family Medicine/Sports Medicine faculty, musculoskeletal radiologists, orthopedic surgeons, and physical therapists as scheduled by the Family Medicine/Sports Medicine faculty. Students may observe, assist with, and perform under direct supervision diagnostic and therapeutic joint injections, trigger point injections, and splinting/casting. Students will also have the opportunity to work in an athletic training room setting and cover athletic events with supervisory faculty. This course is open to MS2-MS4 students who have successfully completed the Family Medicine core clerkship. Prerequisites: Successful completion of the Family Medicine clerkship ( FMED 3005 ).