Hi,
My friend, who is currently a junior, does not have a CC account-so I’ll post for her. She has about a 91 average and she wants to study sports medicine/kinesiology in college/go on the pre-med track to later specialize in sports med.
What are some colleges that are known for having good undergraduate programs in sports medicine, that she should think about applying to?
Thanks!
Sports medicine is not an undergrad major.
She can go to any good affordable school, major in something she likes (bio, chem, English, math, whatever), do well, get a good MCAT score, apply to med schools, and then if she does well in med school, she can go into orthopedic medicine with a sub specialty of sports med.
How about kinesiology?
Some schools also have athletic training UG degrees. As long as you take proper pre-reqs as mom2k noted above you can get into med school. Encourage friend to also look in Physician assistant programs. Take less time than MD and you can work in specific area of interest. I had to go to orthopedic for shoulder and each doctor has care team made up of PAs. The PA saw me, looked at x-rays, gave me cortisone, set up physical therapy…pretty much everything except surgery that doctor would do.
Hard to recommend programs/schools without at least some geographic/$$ parameters.
Kinesiology most definitely is an undergrad major although it is not common. UGA has a kinesiology major (or it did when my daughter applied, I haven’t looked recently), but it will be expensive if you are not a Georgia resident. USC phased out its kinesiology major over the past 3 years but there is a Kinesiology department with options such as B.A. in Human Performance, which has some but not all of the premed courses as well as physiology and athletic injury course requirements.
https://catalogue.usc.edu/schools/college/exsc/undergraduate/
There are no money restrictions but staying in the northeast (no farther west than Michigan or south than Maryland) area would be best
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How about kinesiology?
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although technically a person can major in anything they want for premed, that major is typically selected by those who want to go into Physical therapy, coaching, or athletic training (which could also be coaching).
Premeds typically choose academic majors rather than occupational majors (eng’g being an exception) because academic majors are supposedly more respected by med schools. Academic majors are, for example: English, History, Bio, Chem, Physics, Math, The Classics…and so forth.
However, she could take some electives in the kinesiology, physical education, exercise biology, or athletic training areas (sometimes, these may be offered inside a biology department).