Sports MedicineBy:

Kate Kinter

The purpose of sports medicine

When athletes get injured sports medicine doctor diagnose the injury.

They help prevent the injury. Sports Medicine doctors also treat the injury Sports Medicine doctors also condition exercises

to make athletes breathe more.

What it has to do with S.T.E.M.

To help the athletes sports medicine doctors have to use science technology and mathematics.

They figure out what’s wrong with the patient sports medicine doctors will use technology like a x-ray machine or M.R.I machine.

When the doctors give athletes medicine they would have to use mathematics

Studying the human body is a science and that’s what a sports medicine doctor does

Why I Want To Be In This Career

I want to be in sports medicine because I love sports and is fascinated by bones and muscles which tend to break or tear during sports.

Information about doctors

Doctors make about eighty dollars an hour.

You have to have a doctoral or professional degree

You would have to have been an intern or resident.

Sources

"Careers in Sports Medicine and Exercise Science." American College of Sports Medicine. 2001: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 15 Feb 2013.

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2012-13 Edition, Physicians and Surgeons,

on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/physicians-and-surgeons.htm (visited February 15, 2013).