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What is a sports medicine specialist? A pilot study
  1. B Thompson1,
  2. O Mcnally2,
  3. S O Neill2,
  4. D Macauley2
  1. 1Sports Medicine Clinic, Craigavon Area Hospital, Portadown, Northen Ireland BT63 5QQ
  2. 2Institute of Postgraduate Medical and Health Sciences, University of Ulster, Ulster BT37 OQB, Northern Ireland

    https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsm.34.4.243

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      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.

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