TEAM MEDICINE

1
TEAM MEDICINE
2
Team Physician

• Qualifications
• Experience
• Qualities
• Confidentiality

3
Team Physician

• Coach/Manager-Doctor relationship
• Drugs/Docs bag
• Doping policy

4
Team Physician

• International travel
• Inhospitable climates
• Major games

5
Qualifications

• Primary care?
• A/E?
• Orthopaedics?
• Rheumatology?
• Resuscitation skills

6
Experience

• Apprenticeship?
• Structure through junior-senior teams
• Who decides?
• Previously involved in the sport as a player?

7
Qualities

• Nebulus
• Advocacy
• Conduit
• Willing to maintain independence

8
Confidentaility

• See BJSM
• Probably the most important thing about being a
  team physician

9
Coach/Manager - Doc

• Too close
• Too far
• Changing roles

10
Drugs/Medication

• Being a resource for the team/association
• Knowledge of current drug advice
• Telephone advice and keeping a record

11
Doping policy

• Difficult
• Consultation with association hierarchy
• Ramifications of what may happen as a result of
  meetings you may have

12
International travel

• Jet lag
• DVT
• Planning in advance
• Taking drugs with you
• Taking equipment with you

13
Inhospitable climates

• Hot
• Humid
• Cold
• Hotel living
• Boredom

14
Major Games

• Preparation
• Psychology
• Caught up
• Peripherals
• Press
• Kit
• Extra work