The clinical practice setting is the foundation of this fellowship. Musculoskeletal injuries, sports injuries, human performance and rehabilitation and medical issues related to sports, share the major emphasis. The sports medicine fellow sees patients that are representative of all age groups, gender and level of experience in sporting/exercise interests or activities in the Sports Medicine Center.
The curriculum is designed to meet all the ACGME requirements for Primary Care Sports Medicine fellowship. Curriculum activities include:
- Direct pre-participation physicals on site at five local high schools
- One half-day per week Sports Medicine Center Orthopedic faculty attending
- One half-day continuity primary care at the Montgomery Center for Family Medicine
- Primary care Sports Medicine Center 7 half days per week – average twelve patients per half day
- College/university and high school team and weekly training room coverage
- Mass participation events
- Sports nutrition, biomechanics, exercise physiology through Lander University faculty
- Neuropsychology and concussion management
- One half day per week first assist orthopedic surgery
- Four half days per year human anatomy musculoskeletal dissections
- One half day per week busy procedural clinic – Fellow averages 400–500 ultrasound-guided injections over year
- Two weeks per year Winter Park, CO Ski Area with Intense Fracture Management
- One hour per week imaging didactics
- One week per year High Andes Peru with intense procedural experience
- Two nights per year of open-water PADI instruction course
- Division 1 football sideline experience – Wofford College
- Pre and intra-fellowship intraining exam for CAQ preparation
- 25 hours direct ultrasound didactic education
- 25 hours direct fracture management education
- Annual AMSSM conference
