[Sports medicine in Norway]

In Norway sports medicine is not organized as a single specialty among the medical disciplines. It involves work carried out by doctors with different specialties, dominated by physical medicine and rehabilitation, along with orthopaedic surgery, internal medicine, gynaecology and physiology. Preventive work, acute treatment and rehabilitation of injured athletes, as well as scientific work in the field of sports and sports medicine, are major elements of this field of medicine. It is important to educate medical students and doctors in sports medicine. This education started years ago at the university hospitals in Oslo and Trondheim. It is expected to be extended, and to become organized in future as an integrated part of the regular education of medical students and the post-graduate education of doctors.