sports medicine???

Bigredmed
Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:00:16 +0000

If you want to be an MD, sports medicine is usually a 1 year fellowship tacked on to either an internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, family practice or orthopedic surgery residency. By themselves (without the fellowship additions) Medicine, Peds, Emergency and Family practice are all 3 years and Ortho is 5 years in residency.

Keep in mind that this is after 4 years of medical school.

If you really are interested in becoming a doctor, I really suggest that you keep your mind open to other fields of medicine. Most medical students don’t really pick a residency path until well into the third year or early in the 4th year of medical school…and still you don’t have to make a final decision on that until mid-February of the 4th year, when Rank order lists of residency programs are submitted. I’m a second year, and the fact that I know I want to go into some sort of peds subspecialty puts me well ahead of most of my classmates.

If you don’t graduate until 08, then you are currently a minimum of a decade away from having to really consider what type of residency you want to go into, and even further away from having to decide if you want to pursue a fellowship in sports medicine.