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You can work with a team, practice in a sportsoriented facility, or teach in a higher education setting. With a sports medicine degree from UWS, you can follow your passion: combining athletics and whole-person health care.
An accredited Master of Science degree from UWS means you’ll get hands-on learning from experts in the field. It will open doors to varied opportunities and set your career up for longstanding success.
With a sports medicine degree from UWS, you’ll have freedom to move into new industries and expanded professional settings. Whether you aspire to work with professional sports teams, high school athletics programs, conduct innovative research or go on to pursue a doctoral program, you’ll have the advanced knowledge and experience to practice with confidence.
The majority of the classes are online. One extended weekend lab allows for immersive hands-on learning that will deepen your knowledge.
Flexible online classes can be planned with your schedule in mind and practicum hours can be arranged with a supervisor in your area.
Our program will help prepare you to become certified through the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians® as a certified physician or diplomate. Our graduates are also eligible to obtain the International Sports Chiropractic Certification.
Prior education and clinical experience often qualify for transfer credits that save time and money. You may also enroll concurrently and overlap credits with the UWS chiropractic program.
Courses that include evidence-informed content and instruction, prevention and treatment of injuries, and opportunities to select electives of interest give you knowledge that applies broadly across disciplines and sets you apart as a clinician.
UWS faculty are leaders in their fields with professional careers in athlete care that range in settings from high school to professional athletic teams. That knowledge, passion and experience is shared in the courses they teach. Our professors excel in providing a broad range of interdisciplinary approaches to whole-person care.
You’ll enter your career with confidence, because in your practicum you’ll have learned specialized techniques, treated real patients and practiced innovative clinical skills.
The university’s academic program is accredited and widely recognized for its quality and substantive rigor, opening doors for further academic studies or starting a clinical practice.