Sports Medicine Personal Statement

In the last several years I developed an area of focus to sport medicine. Sports medicine is a multidisciplinary clinical and academic specialty provides continues care on and off the field, extending that care beyond diagnosing and treating injuries to include health promotion, rehabilitation and injury prevention not only to elite athletes but to any participants of physical activities in almost all age groups.
My short experience in iron man events and the exposure I got during my training, I recognize the immense need of this specialty in Oman.

With growing population of the country, more than 70% of the population (based on 2014 census) is in the active age category. Add to that the increase awareness and attention to the importance of exercise, there are more people participating in sports either on professional or recreational level. In addition the country is
Being in more conservative society pose more difficulties on these athletes and therefore I aim during my fellowship to gain experience and knowledge that could help me to work with athletes particularly females on national level. Other goals that I envision are to establish dedicated sports medicine clinics that will help to improve the current systems in several ways
- Provide timely fashioned follow up for patients who present to different emergency rooms (trauma and non trauma ordinated ERs) with sports related injures without the fear of losing follow up or transferring them to the trauma centers. This might contribute in reducing the unnecessary wait time in the trauma center given that the patient has been seen and evaluated by a physician.
- Helps in triage, decision-making and utilize medical recourses appropriately.
- Developing and training residents and staff and eventually build our own training