VCOM - Auburn 2017 Yearbook

student organizations

A OASM is the oldest primary care-based sports medicine specialty. It utilizes a holistic, comprehensive approach to the prevention, diagnosis and management of sport and exercise-related injuries, disorders, dysfunctions and disease processes. The AOASM student organization was created for medical students with an interest in sports medicine. The organization’s highest priority is to provide students with opportunities to acquire a skill set that could benefit

them in their future careers in family medicine, orthopedics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, or other related areas. At VCOM-Auburn, AOASM provides students the opportunity to partner with the athletes, coaches, trainers and physicians at Auburn University, and teaches valuable skills and techniques to better students as future sports medicine physicians. Members also have the opportunity to attend different regional and national sports medicine conferences all

over the country. Activities have included an athletic practice area tour where students were able to watch an actual football practice in the indoor football practice facility at Auburn University. Students also toured the sports medicine facilities at Auburn University that included training areas and the sports medicine clinic. A spineboarding clinic has been held, along with several educational lectures.

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