Sports Medicine Fellowship
Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Overview
Our fellowship-trained faculty are the team doctors for Texas A&M athletics, and you can join them. Learn basic and advanced sports medicine procedures to enhance your practice. Learn everything others are talking about including MSK ultrasound, athlete EKG interpretation, stress testing, fluoroscopically guided procedures, advanced fracture management and much more.
Mission
The one-year ACGME-accredited program offers a comprehensive curriculum with a goal of training well-rounded and exceptionally prepared sports medicine physicians.
Vision
The Texas A&M Primary Care Sports Medicine Program is designed to:
- Facilitate a breadth of learning that will allow our residents/fellows to meet the needs of diverse communities.
- Facilitate learning in the full range from prevention and wellness to acute and chronic illness and injury management in young and old patients.
- Teach fellows the breadth and depth of the health care team and how to be effective team members and leaders through application of their increased training in Primary Care Sports Medicine.
- Ground fellows in the skills of scholarly activity and research that will allow them to remain up to date in a rapidly changing profession.
Program Structure
The Texas A&M Primary Care Sports Medicine Program is structured to meet the requirements of the ACGME Review Committee for Family Medicine. The one-year fellowship program provides the fellows clinical experience to independently practice primary care sports medicine upon completion of the program.
Basic Schedule Layout
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat/Sun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCSM | PCSM | Rotation | Phys Lab/Research | Procedure Clinic and SM Consults | |
| Rotation | TAMU Student Health Clinic | Continuity Clinic |
PCSM | Training Room Rounds | |
| Football Practice | Selected practice/event coverage |
Texas A&M PCSM 12 Month Curriculum Overview
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- PCSM/Concussion – 4 Weeks
- Hand & Upper Extremity Orthopedics - 4 weeks
- Lower Extremity/Foot & Ankle Orthopedics - 4 weeks
- Orthopedic Spine & Pain Management - 4 weeks
- Rehab – 4 weeks
- Nutrition and Sports Pharmacology – 4 weeks
- MSK U/S and General Orthopedics – 4 weeks
- Pediatric Orthopedics – 4 weeks
- Sports Psych/PCSM – 4 weeks
- PCSM/Prep for Practice/Elective – 4 weeks
- Radiology/Cardiology – 4 weeks
- Electives – 4 weeks
- Conferences/Didactics - weekly during each rotation
- Academic Research Time - weekly during each rotation
- Primary Care Sports Medicine clinic - at least three half-days each week
- Continuity Clinic in Primary Certification - at least one half-day each week
- Ortho Workshops (ie. Casting/splinting) for residents and students - as scheduled
- Mass Event Planning/Coverage (Special Olympics, BCS Marathon, Texas Ultra race, Texas Games)
- Continuity high school sports coverage through an assigned team (Bryan ISD)
- National Sports Medicine Conference Case Poster Presentation