<p>I'm interested in sports medicine......</p>
<p>What colleges have good sports medicine programs...</p>
<p>like sports medicine--pre-med? because many different schools have a "sports medicine" program that is more geared towards athletic training, physical therapy, fitness management (which is different from sports management), and a pre-med option to go along with these. if you go to a school's website and looking under the Kinesiology dept/program, you should find what you're looking for. alot of pre-med students these days are going for a kinesiology/exercise science option because it incorporates movement, structure, disease, and anything else a pre-med student would need.</p>
<p>google "sports medicine program" or something to that effect and you'll get a good list</p>
<p>If you want to be an MD, sports medicine is usually a 1 year fellowship tacked on to either an internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, family practice or orthopedic surgery residency. By themselves (without the fellowship additions) Medicine, Peds, Emergency and Family practice are all 3 years and Ortho is 5 years in residency.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that this is after 4 years of medical school.</p>
<p>If you really are interested in becoming a doctor, I really suggest that you keep your mind open to other fields of medicine. Most medical students don't really pick a residency path until well into the third year or early in the 4th year of medical school...and still you don't have to make a final decision on that until mid-February of the 4th year, when Rank order lists of residency programs are submitted. I'm a second year, and the fact that I know I want to go into some sort of peds subspecialty puts me well ahead of most of my classmates.</p>
<p>If you don't graduate until 08, then you are currently a minimum of a decade away from having to really consider what type of residency you want to go into, and even further away from having to decide if you want to pursue a fellowship in sports medicine.</p>
<p>well im really interested in Orthopedics and pediatrics......but i like the sports medicne aspect of it all</p>
<p>Well, then the take home point is this: sports medicine, as actual medical subspecialty, is not going to be a part of your undergraduate experience. Your specific training in that field is past undergrad, past medical school, past residency. You may have criss-crossed the country by the point you are even in position to apply to a sports medicine fellowship. </p>
<p>Your focus now should be on finding the college that is the best fit for you, an environment that is going to set you up to the most successful student you can be. Your end goal would be simply getting into medical school. Do that first and then worry about the sports medicine when the time is right. If you are interested in majoring in something that is somewhat applicable to your interest, then Cards4life has given some good information. Consider those things as possible majors, but remember that you can major in anything and still get into medical school. You can go anywhere and still get into medical school too, so really don't worry about the prestige or rankings of an individual school, just how well it fits you and your personality. The corrollary of the previous statements is also true in that no school and no major will give you a leg up on admissions to medical school either.</p>
<p>Lastly, if you decide to go the pre-med route, even if you move to New York or Florida or Kansas for undergrad, keep your AZ residency as the U of A medical school only accepts legal residents of AZ to their school (along with a few other individuals from a couple other western states without medical schools). That's a big boost in your chances for admission.</p>