Medical supervision of mass sporting events

1. Understand and estimate the risk of medical encounters at mass community­based sports events. 2. Be able to define and classify medical encounters at mass community-based sports events. 3. Understand the exercise benefit-risk paradox. 4. Implement step-wise planning to reduce the risk of medical encounters at mass community-based sports events. 5. Understand the potential role of pre-event medical screening for mass sporting events. 6. Plan and implement medical care on race day for mass community-based sport­ing events. 7. Develop guidelines to minimize the potential negative effects of environmental stress, including air quality at mass community-based sporting events. 8. Be able to document medical encounters at community-based sporting events.