Sports Medicine Doctor

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Skills that shape your career

  • Diagnostic and interventional ultrasound

    Scanning a shoulder in clinic and guiding an injection with it. Now close to standard in this field.

  • Concussion management

    A large and growing part of the work, especially with school and college athletes.

  • Event and team coverage

    Marathons, tournaments and school teams. Unpaid or lightly paid, and the fastest way to build a referral base.

  • Research

    Necessary if you want a university post, and it is how you end up at a professional organization.