Sports Medicine (Football) 1

Program Overview

This program focuses on the assessment and evaluation of athletes in the context of elite sports, such as Football. Content includes clinical reasoning strategies, practical skills, applied anatomy, and industry expert insights. Through a combination of lectures, seminars, and practical workshops, students will learn to work effectively as part of an interdisciplinary team to support athlete health and performance.

Program Outline

The module will use clinical reasoning and excellence in clinical skills to explore issues associated with assessing and evaluating illness/injury within sports such as elite Football. Content will include a range of clinical reasoning strategies, practical skills, and applied anatomy which the study of dissected specimens in the prosectorium will additionally support. Industry experts will further enhance discussions of contemporary issues within elite football and shared learning across sports to support practice. A varied list of topics will be covered from injury prevention, medico-legal issues, disability athlete classification system and assessing adolescent athletes to the ageing athlete. Exploring the changing landscape of assessment within the elite sports environment while working effectively as part of an interdisciplinary team to support the health and performance of the athlete/team. The goal of this module’s provision is to draw together clinical skills and theory and offer contributions to both fields. Providing evidence-based practice within a bio-psychosocial context of elite sports.

Outline:

Content:

• Clinical reasoning strategies
• Practical skills
• Applied anatomy
• Injury prevention
• Medico-legal issues
• Disability athlete classification system
• Assessing adolescent athletes
• The ageing athlete
• Working effectively as part of an interdisciplinary team

Structure:

• Combination of delivery (lectures, seminars, practical workshops) at the University of Birmingham, with directed and self-directed activities.

Course Schedule:

• Semester 1 module- running between October-December, the module is split into four two-day blocks typically running on a Wednesday and Thursday.

Assessment:

• One 3000-word essay providing a reasoned analysis of best practices in assessing and evaluating an injured athlete.

Teaching:

• Lectures
• Seminars
• Practical workshops
• Directed and self-directed activities
• Industry experts
• University academics with industry experience

Other:

• Module Attendance: Approximately 60 hours
• Students are expected to contribute significant time to self-directed studies to support their learning and reflections.
• Credits: 20 credits