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Careers
The Sports Medicine and Patient Care Sector requires academic and technical skills, as well as the related knowledge necessary for the field. These careers range from entry level to management, including technical and professional specialties. Sports medicine focuses on helping people improve their athletic performance, recover from injury and prevent future injuries. It is a fast-growing health care field, because health workers who specialize in sports medicine help many “regular” people as well as athletes. Sports medicine is a subspecialty of emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, or pediatrics.
Athletic Trainer, Biomedical Engineer, Doctor of Osteopathy, EMT (Emergency Medical Technicians), Environmental Health Specialist, Exercise Physiologist, Fitness, Health Educator, Kinesiotherapist, Medical Assistants, Nursing, Nutrition, Physical and Occupational Therapy Health Services Administrator
Patient Care - Sports Medicine
About sports medicine and patient care
The Sports Medicine Career Pathway is partnered with the Simi Valley Hospital and Ventura Orthopedics. It designed for students who are interested in Athletic Training, Physical Therapy, Medicine, Fitness, Nursing, EMT, Kinesiology, Nutrition, and other Sports Medicine related fields. Learn the basic skills and fundamentals of sports medicine, including how to prevent athletic injury and increase athletic performance. Students will study body mechanics, nutritional guidelines for maximizing performance, protective sports equipment, taping and bracing, psychological aspects of competition, and training and conditioning techniques. Internships in the healthcare community are an intergral part of ROP Athletic Training.
Is the industry growing?
The U.S. Department of Labor, projects a rate of growth of 20% or higher between 2008 and 2018 for the occupations of sports medicine physician, athletic trainer and physical therapist (http://online.onetcenter.org). The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicted job growth between 2012 and 2022 would be 18% for all physicians and surgeons, which includes sports medicine doctors, 19% for athletic trainers, and 36% for physical therapists.
Athletic Trainers and Physical Therapists are health care professionals who collaborate with physicians to provide preventative services, emergency care, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions. Athletic training has recently been recognized by the American Medical Association as an allied health care profession.
COURSEWORK
All courses are A-G approved
IB Sports Medicine
Teaches students components of sports medicine, including exploration of therapeutic careers, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, first aid, injury prevention, the healing process, biomechanics, rehabilitation techniques, therapeutic modalities, sports nutrition, sports psychology, and performance enhancement philosophies.
Anatomy/Physiology Honors
This pathway course provides a broad-base study of the human body for students interested in in science and healthcare professions.
ROP Athletic Training
This course introduces the student to the organization and administration of high school sports training programs. As a student trainer, students enrolled in the program will learn how to prevent and care for common athletic injuries.
ROP Medical Terminology This course teaches the basic language used health careers.
