UC San Diego Sports Medicine Summer Academy
A three-week in-person academy for rising 11th and 12th graders combining lectures, hands-on labs, and research projects in musculoskeletal anatomy, injury prevention, concussion research, and exercise science, taught by UC San Diego clinicians and researchers.
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