VCOM - Carolinas 2016 Yearbook

AOASM American Osteopathic Academy of Sports Medicine

Lauren Munck, President; William Boos, Vice President; Dillard Stephens, Treasurer; Shelby Guile, Secretary

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 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.

opportunity to partner with the athletes, coaches, trainers, and physicians of Spartanburg and the Upstate region, 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. Members of the VCOM–Carolinas AOASM student chapter participated in many outreach and fundraising events this year. Each year AOASM helps doctors in the community by assisting with sports physicals for athletes from local high schools and colleges. Additionally, this year our members helped out with Shrine Bowl and Special Olympics physicals. Working with

local sports medicine physicians Stefan Montgomery, MD, and John Lucas, MD, members have begun to observe and participate in sideline coverage at USC Upstate basketball games, getting a firsthand glimpse into the life of a team physician. Through the YMCA’s “Lunch and Learn” program, AOASM provides the opportunity for its members to attend monthly lectures on sports- related topics given by medical professionals from the Upstate. The organization has also continued the annual traditions of Jersey Day (a sportswear dress-down day) and Tourney for Tots (a March Madness bracket challenge). These fundraisers raise money to purchase sports equipment for local elementary

At VCOM–Carolinas, AOASM provides students the

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