Sports Medicine for the Clinician Online Course 2024
The Sports Medicine for the Clinician online course offers learners the confidence to accurately diagnose and treat sports-related conditions, as well as injuries sustained during recreational physical activities. This online course covers appropriate testing and referral criteria, as well as what is on the horizon for diagnosis and treatment. The online course also helps to improve the specific skills in physical exam and imaging interpretation that assist in the diagnosis of conditions that may have implications for participation, performance and recovery in sports and recreational physical activities. The iteration of the lectures also stresses medical conditions and their implications on sports and athletic activities.
The selection of topics are our most popular CME talks from the 2023 Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine for the Clinician live course.
Target Audience
This course is designed for NPs & PAs, sports medicine physicians, family physicians, physiatrists, internists, pediatricians, ER physicians, orthopedists, and medical providers involved in the care and management of athletes and active individuals in clinic or nonoperative/nonsurgical/noninvasive settings.
Learning Objectives
- Identify medications to avoid for athletes and active patients considering sport-specific injuries.
- Identify exercise as a form of management for chronic conditions and various musculoskeletal injuries.
- Recognize various assessment strategies that participants can use in clinic to diagnose difficult to discern orthopedic and sports medicine conditions.
Utilization of this Mayo Clinic online (enduring materials) course does not indicate nor guarantee competence or proficiency in the performance of any procedures which may be in this course.