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:
- EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1st , 2019 – SALARY: $60,000
- Direct pre-participation physicals on site at seven local high schools
- One half-day per week with Orthopedic faculty attending in clinic or operating room
- One half-day continuity primary care at the primary specialty location
- Primary care Sports Medicine Center 7 half days per week – average twelve patients per half day
- College/university and high school weekly training room and event coverage
- Mass participation events
- Sports nutrition, biomechanics, exercise physiology through Lander University faculty
- Neuropsychology and concussion management
- Three 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
- One hour per week imaging lectures and patient reviews
- 10 days per year High Andes Peru with intense procedural experience
- Two nights per year of open-water PADI instruction course
- Division II football sideline experience – Erskine 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
- Carolina Sports Medicine Summit conference annually
- Case presentation journal club/ethics with upstate fellowships
- Bimonthly journal club
