CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
During your time as a fellow, you will have the opportunity to provide lectures, clinical
oversight and procedural supervision to our Family Medicine and Internal Medicine
residents, in addition to medical students, nurse practitioner students and PA students,
all of which train at our Sponsoring Institution. These opportunities will give the
selected fellows carried experiences at systems based practice, communication, professionalism
and PBLI. Enhancing these competencies as a fellow will strengthen your ability as
an educator and as a viable member of the healthcare team.
As part of the Sports Medicine Fellowship, you will gain experience in the following
areas:
- Conduct pre-participation physical evaluations of athletes
- Conduct procedures relevant to the practice of sports medicine including:
- Assist with, observe, and perform outpatient non-operative interventional procedures, and inpatient and outpatient operative musculoskeletal procedures clinically relevant to the practice of sports medicine
- Gain sports medicine clinic experience:
- Provide sports medicine clinic patients with continuing comprehensive care and provide consultation for health problems related to sports and exercise
- Spend at least one day per week for 10 months in a single sports medicine clinic providing care to patients
- If a fellow's sports medicine clinic patients are hospitalized, the fellow must either follow them during their inpatient stay and resume outpatient care following hospitalization, or remain in active communication with the inpatient care team
- Provide on-site sports care including:
- Plan and implement all aspects of medical care at various sporting events and participate in providing comprehensive and continuing care to sports teams across seasons
- Gain clinical experience that provides exposure to, and facilitates skill development in, the appropriate recognition, on-field management, and medical transportation of sports medicine urgencies and emergencies
- Participate in mass-participation events:
- Plan and implement all aspects of medical care for at least one mass-participation sports event
- Provide medical consultation, direct care-planning, event planning, protection of participants, and coordination with local EMS systems
- Gain experience working in a community sports medicine network involving parents, coaches, athletic trainers, allied health personnel, residents, and physicians
ROTATIONS
The following is a list of the required rotations available for the Sports Medicine Fellowship:
Sports Medicine/Mass Participation/On Site Medical Coverage Longitudinal 10 Months
Continuity Clinic Longitudinal 10 Months
Orthopedic Longitudinal Longitudinal 10 Months
Pediatric Orthopedics 1 Month
Orthopedic Subspecialty 4 Months
PMR 1 Month
Physical Therapy 2 Weeks
Radiology 6 Weeks
Cardiology 4 Weeks
Research/Scholarly Activity 4 Weeks
Elective 1 Month
Vacation 1 Month
CME 5 Days
Didactics Longitudinal 10 Months