Program Basics

• Structure

  The Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Program is a one-year Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited fellowship program. It’s sponsored by the Department of Family and Community Medicine at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The fellowship is a one-on-one learning experience with an assigned attending staff member. 
  
  The program has six longitudinal block rotations, allowing for both continuity as well as diversity. The rotation blocks will include experiences with primary care, sports medicine, orthopaedics, pediatric sports medicine, radiology, training room coverage, sports ultrasound and OMT (osteopathic manipulation therapy).

• Goals

  The Ohio State University Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship is designed for fellows to:
  

  • Learn the skills to care for any active individual in all aspect of health care including primary care and musculoskeletal medicine
  • Refine his or her ability to critically evaluate an athletic injury through history, physical exam, differential diagnosis and appropriate ordering and interpretation of X-rays, MRIs, bone scans and other imaging
  • Refine his or her ability to develop treatment options with the understanding of surgical risks and benefits, physical therapy modalities and exercises
  • Appropriately apply these abilities in different environments including the office setting, the training room and event coverage
  • Be exposed to the multidisciplinary aspect of caring for athletes with interaction and exposure to athletic trainers, physical therapists, primary care sports medicine specialists, orthopedic specialists, sport psychologists, sports nutritionists and other specialists within our system
  • Become familiar with sports medicine literature and develop the ability to critically review it
  • Experience the process of producing a publishable quality research project
  • Participate in mass event coverage and learn what’s involved in coordinating care for such an event
  • Learn the basics of musculoskeletal ultrasound and how to appropriately use it in a clinical setting
  • Learn the basics of innovative interventions including orthobiologics, percutaneous tenotomy and extracorporal shock wave therapy

• Primary Care Offices

  Residency Review Committee (RRC) requires that all sports medicine fellows continue to practice medicine in their primary field of training during the fellowship program. The goal is to maintain your skills as a primary care physician. There is a required half-day clinic per week in your primary field of training.
  
  Additional requirements of the fellowship are detailed in the Curriculum section of this site.