Expired CME Article

Sports Medicine: The Primary Care Perspective

Authors: James C. Puffer, MD

Abstract

Annotation: Dr. Jim Puffer has impeccable credentials to discuss the evolution of sports medicine as a primary care specialty. A founding member of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowships and head USA Team Physician for the 24th Olympiad, Dr. Puffer’s leadership in Sports Medicine is legend. As the aggregate musculoskeletal expertise and surgical triage abilities of the primary care sports medicine physician sharpen, the responsibilities of those physicians broaden. Increasingly important is the sports medicine team’s interaction—both personal and professional—related to individual athletes. Equally important is the specific and growing collaboration between primary care sports medicine and orthopaedic sports medicine in the greater sports medicine world.

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