Sports medicine is unique in the challenges it presents to team physicians and the demands it puts on personal and professional careers, but for the physicians that stick with it the rewards are bountiful.
A panel of sports medicine experts shares the advice they wish they'd received when they first started out and their advice for a physician looking to specialize in sports medicine.
The panel includes:
- Steve Jordan, MD, orthopedic surgeon with the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine in Gulf Breeze, Fla.
- Bert Mandelbaum, MD, orthopedic surgeon and co-chair of medical affairs at the Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles
- Juliet DeCampos, MD, orthopedic surgeon at the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
- Luga Podesta, MD, director of sports medicine at St. Charles Orthopedics in New York
- Michael Milligan, MD, sports medicine physician at the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
- Marc Samson, MD, orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialists at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.