Moving interest groups into the development of membership accredited professional associations.
Constructing traditional member professional groups into specialization fields.
Transforming professional associations membership groups (while maintaining autonomy) into memberships with multidisciplinary and inter-disciplinary organizations.
Testimonial
Reviewer: Dr. Julia Alleyne MD. Toronto Rehab, MSK Lead Outpatients. Associate Clinical Professor, University of Toronto. Enhanced SKills Director, Department of Family and Community Medicine. CEO, MSK Course of Canada.
Comments: “Dr. Robert Gurney has taken on the challenge of documenting the birth, growth and maturing of a professional organisation. This introspective analysis of sport medicine in Australia is a valuable chapter in the history of international sport and exercise medicine where many parallels and some differences can be drawn when comparing national professional organisations. The inclusion of the inter-professional lens enhances the depth of the profession and illuminates the diversity that has become best practice in clinics and event coverage. Within the analysis of constructing a profession, Gurney describes the agreements and disagreements form various sport related professions that were vital to the ultimate dialogue for consensus.
Gurney uses a provocative format that allows the reader to identify with their own inquisitive questions about professionalism through surveys, assessments and statements; while still offering mentoring through the definition of terms and clarification of concepts. Change management theories are woven into the journey and demonstrate the dynamic evolution of a profession and the role of both leadership and professional skill that facilitated change. Overall, this book is an organized journey that examines the founding of a profession and portrays the challenges and successes of one of the strongest sport medicine professional associations in the world.”