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Journal Article
Sports and exercise medicine in undergraduate training
2012
Overview
In the UK, three initiatives by primarycare trusts have shown that a multidisciplinary sports and exercise medicine approach, before hospital referral, improved the conversion rate of orthopaedic outpatient appointments to surgery from about 40% to 70%.16 Almost 30 years ago, a proposal was made that sports and exercise medicine ought to be included in the UK undergraduate curriculum because of its importance in public health.17 However, in a 2010 survey18 of UK undergraduate training, 25 (76%) of 33 medical schools contacted responded: all included musculoskeletal medicine in their curricula, 17 (68%) taught about exer cise and obesity, and only 10 (40%) taught any sports and exercise medicine. Large cohort studies from the USA have shown that low cardiorespiratory fitness is the single biggest risk factor for all-cause mortality.19 The importance of sports and exercise medicine, in particular the benefits of physical activity in non-communicable disease prevention and chronic disease management, should be incorporated in the core undergraduate medical programme.
