Best Jobs Now - Sports Medicine, Health and Fitness

By Elizabeth Quinn, About.com GuideFebruary 9, 2009

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Do you dream of working with and around athletes? There are still many great career opportunities in sports medicine, fitness and coaching.

The most common career areas involve working with pro and recreational athletes in two major areas:

Lifestyle improvement or performance enhancement.
Injury prevention or recovery.

The goal of sports medicine and fitness professionals is to help athletes achieve optimal health and performance goals. For many people, this is a pretty easy career decision. But once you've decided, then what? That's when the real work begins. The career choices available are endless and determining what path to take can be difficult.

One of the best pieces of advice I can give the sports medicine or health promotion student is to take advantage of any internship possibilities available. The internship is ultimately the best way to immerse yourself in a chosen field without any long-term commitment. What better way to discover if that is really the way you want to spend 40 hours a week?

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