Love of basketball drove me to become a sports medicine doctoral student From the moment I started playing basketball, I was obsessed. I spent days, months, and years learning the game of basketball and sweating on the basketball court. Sometimes, I would imagine myself as Jeremy Lin on the court at Madison Square Garden. After […]
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Can we CHANGE how we involve athletes in SEM research?
By Dr Osman Ahmed @osmanhahmed In September 2019, I had the privilege of attending “Medicine X: CHANGE” held at Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA (Image 1). Dr Larry Chu is the key driver of this event and makes sure this conference series differs from others in terms of the depth and scope of patient involvement- patients are […]
Introducing the BJSM “Patient Voices” series: getting your patient’s story heard by the wider SEM community
By Dr Osman Ahmed @osmanhahmed How many of us have treated a patient/athlete and thought “that’s one heck of a story they’ve got”? Quite a few of us, I expect. Throughout our working lives we encounter patients who have been through circumstances and situations that we can easily look too as a great learning example, […]