This comprehensive lecture series includes the most common and the most serious medical illness and injuries associated with athletes and physically active individuals. The series was created by the  ACEP Sports Medicine Section  to fill a current area of deficit in the curriculum of emergency medicine residency programs, i.e. musculoskeletal medicine, while also serving to promote one of the five board-certified subspecialties in the specialty.

• Barometrics: Altitude and Exercise and Dive Medicine
  
  
• Cardiac Conditions in Athletes  
  
  
• Head and Neck Injuries in Athletes 
  
  
• Heat Illness Fluids and Electrolytes in Exercising Individuals 
  
  
• Infectious Diseases in Sports Medicine 
  
  
• Musculoskeletal Examination 
  
  
• Occult Fractures and Dislocations 
  
  
• Overuse Injuries 
  
  
• Pediatric Sports Injuries 
  
  
• Performance Enhancing Drugs 

 

Funded by an ACEP Section Grant