Sports Medicine

Duties and Responsibilities:

a sports medecine doctor helps professional and amateur athletes stay healthy or recover from injury.They diagnse and treat illnesses and injuries by devolping treatment and therapy plansto help sthletes recover as quickly and safely as possible.

Salary:$185,112

Education:

After getting a bachelor's degree, you must attend medical school to earn a Doctor of Medicine degree or Doctor of Osteopathy.After reciveing one of these degrees, you must perform a residency lasting 2-7 years ina a specialty such asfamily medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, internal medicine, emergency medicine or pediatrics.

Demand for this Particular career:

This job is projected to grow 18% from the years 2014 to 2024.

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Reflection: Do you think you would like to be one? Why? Why not? 

I do think I would like to be one because I believe I'd have a good time helping athletes recover from injury and illnesses. Im kinda on the fence about it tho because you need a lot of education, but the pay is very good so yah.