Gender Diversity in Sports Medicine: Current Trends.

ABSTRACT: As the sports medicine field has grown, the need for a more diverse workforce has become more evident. Given the growing athlete diversity that exists at all recreational and competitive levels of organized sports, it is important to better understand the current state of athletic health care diversity. This review assesses the current state of diversity in sports medicine from the perspective of the medical and athletic training professions. Men and women currently display nearly equivalent participation levels; however, the distribution of female team physicians and athletic trainers could better match the teams that they serve. Although progress has been made, much more needs to be done to bring more female athletic trainers and team physicians into athletic health care leadership roles

SUBMITTER: Whitaker J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10461133 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature