Sports Medicine

Duties and responsibilities:  A sports medicine doctor helps professional and amateur athletes stay healthy or recover from injury. The following chart gives you an overview about becoming a sports medicine doctor.Examine patients and diagnose sports-related injuries or conditions; prescribe medication and treatment to heal and restore normal function; monitor patient recovery and adjust treatment according to patient response

Salary:$162,778 for sports medicine physicians**

Education:After obtaining a bachelor's degree with a strong pre-medical curriculum, you must attend an accredited medical school to earn a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree or Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.). These similar programs take four years to complete and include coursework in the musculoskeletal and nervous systems, biochemistry and physiology, as well as the legal aspects of medicine, among other topics.After receiving your degree, you must perform a residency lasting 2-7 years in a specialty such as family medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, internal medicine, emergency medicine or pediatrics.