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What is a sports medicine specialist? A pilot study

B Thompson¹, O Mcnally², S O Neill², D Macauley²

¹ Sports Medicine Clinic, Craigavon Area Hospital, Portadown, Northen Ireland BT63 5QQ
² Institute of Postgraduate Medical and Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Ulster BT37 OQB, Northern Ireland

Sports medicine is a rapidly expanding and developing specialty in the United Kingdom, but there is, currently, no defined training programme or higher career specialist qualification for those wishing to work in this field. A Medline search using keywords "sports medicine", "specialist", "training", and "qualities" found no literature to help define this specialism. The aim of the study was to help define the role of the sports medicine specialist. The specific objective was to seek consensus among those practitioners already working in the field on those qualities considered desirable or essential in a sports medicine specialist.

The study used a modified Delphi technique to seek the views of all 13 doctors in Northern Ireland who possess the basic qualification of a Diploma in Sports Medicine and who work in a variety of clinical settings. In the first round, we invited these doctors to record all those qualities they considered important . . . [Full text of this article]

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