Sports Medicine

Duties and Responsibilities:
They prescribe and administer patient medications, monitor patients during sports events or physical activity and perform tests and prescribe medication and treatment. They must also consult with patients to determine what treatment/medication is best.

Education:
A degree in medicine from an accelerated-medical school is required and a licensed is needed to practice. They may also require 2-4 years of sports medicine experience. Students should begin to take science classes, and math classes at the hardest level in high school and explore different routes of medicine.

Salary:
They make $200,220 a year.

Do you think you would like to be one?
Yes I would like to be one because they get paid a lot of money and they don't even have to do things like surgery. I'd like to be one also because they deal with medicine and I like that route of profession.