Choosing the Right Sports Medicine College
If your dream is to have a career in sports medicine, you must have a good foundation for it. Good foundation starts with good education. Before you choose your sports medicine college, you have to clarify first within yourself your goals and ambitions because this career as there are a lot of jobs available here.
After you have made a choice you should not allow yourself to be suddenly distracted by other jobs in sports medicine and the possible lower costs of education for this. You have to stick with your choice. Not doing so may lead you into having a career that you might not enjoy.
In choosing a college, you have to allocate time for researching and exploring the different options you have. The criteria in choosing a school are fairly simple. You have to take a look at the school and the college curriculum that matchers the career you picked early on. Another important thing is the cost of the school. Another thing to consider is the school’s location. Is it located in a safe environment? Lastly you have to take a look at the school reputation. Is the school known to have a good program in sports medicine?
For those wanting to be a sports medical doctor the best colleges to go to are Stanford University and Ohio State University. There are only few fellowship programs in Sports Medicine in the country and Stanford has one of them. Their program allows the students to explore sports medicine using their Human Performance Laboratory which has cutting edge technology. Ohio State University is a top medical university that also offers such fellowship program.
You have to take into consideration that these fellowship programs require you to finish your 4-year degree in college, your studies in medical school and your residency.
If on the other hand what you want is to be a massage therapist who works with athletes then some good schools for this are the Woodridge Schools of Massage Therapy in Chicago and Omaha School of Massage and Healthcare in Herzing University.
For the schools for the other fields under sports medicine, find out more here.
