ACSM Health & Fitness Summit

ACSM Health & Fitness Summit

March 15-17, 2013

Get to the Next Level: Strategies to Enhance Your Career

Deborah Riebe, Ph.D., FACSM

Chair, ACSM’s Committee for Certification and Registry Boards

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

E-mail: [email protected]

Richard Cotton, M.S.

National Director for Certification

American College of Sports Medicine

E-mail: [email protected]

Linda S. Pescatello, Ph.D., FACSM, FAHA, CPD

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

E-mail: [email protected]

Peter Ronai, M.S., FACSM

Sacred Heart University

E-mail: [email protected]

I. Introductory Remarks

A. Importance of planning your career

B. Presentation outline/objectives

II. Career progression

A. Create a Career Blue Print

1. Setting: Health fitness, Clinical, Performance, Management


2. People: Youth, Older Adults, Athletes, Deconditioned


3. Work Tasks


4. Values


5. Travel


6. Emotional


7. Compensation
   B. Defining a path


8. Setting goals


9. Education
   a) Back to school – certificate or degree
   b) Continuing education - importance of strategic selections


10. Certification
    a) Advanced certifications