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Primary Care/Sports Medicine Fellowship Program
This is a one-year post-graduate fellowship program for primary care physicians from accredited residency programs in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and emergency medicine.
Our faculty strives to create an environment of critical thinking with an integrative
relationship amongst orthopaedic surgery, physical therapy, and sports performance.
Our program will develop fellows who exemplify leadership skills and who will
distinguish themselves amongst the sports medicine community.
Objectives and Philosophy
Goals:
This fellowship will prepare primary care physicians to become leaders in the field of sports medicine. Fellowship experiences will also prepare the fellow for a career which may include activity as:
- A Sports Medicine Consultant in Private Practice
- A Team Physician: professional, collegiate, and high school levels
- A Residency/Fellowship Program Faculty member, Clinician Researcher/Educator
- Successful completion of the Certificate of Added Qualification in Sports Medicine
Objectives:
At the completion of this fellowship program, the fellow/sports medicine resident
will:
Diagnose and Manage medical illnesses and injuries associated with sports and exercise.
- Demonstrate an appropriate sports/exercise related history and Perform appropriate injury specific examinations.
- Order and interpret appropriate laboratory, radiographic/other diagnostic imaging, and exercise physiologic testing.
- Demonstrate appropriate use of treatment modalities including directed physiotherapy, intra-articular injection, casting and splinting, durable medical equipment, exercise prescription writing, and pharmacologic therapies.
- Recognize circumstances needing sub-specialist or surgical referral.
Experience the many roles of a Team Physician.
- Lead and Organize the Sports Medicine Team at both the High School and Collegiate levels. This role includes but is not limited to pre-participation examinations, training room clinics, event coverage, and preparation for on-field emergencies.
- Assist Team Physicians at the High School and Collegiate levels.
- Establish and Maintain effective physician-athletic trainer relationships.
Establish a base for leadership in primary care sports medicine
- Maintain active membership in local/regional/national societies.
- Present and Participate in weekly Sports Medicine Conferences.
- Teach athletes, parents, medical students, residents, and physicians through talks, lectures and precepting.
- Present academic work at local, regional, and national sport society meetings.
- Identify personal leadership skills and teaching abilities.
Primary Care Sports Medicine Faculty
Kyle J. Cassas, M.D.
Program Director Assistant Professor of Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Medical Director, GHS and Mary Black Athletic Trainer's Network
W. Franklin Sease, Jr, M.D.
Associate Program Director Assistant Professor of Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Director of Resident Sports Medicine Education
Joseph Jacko, M.D.
Assistant Program Director
Other Faculty
Sean McEnroe, PT, SCS, MBA
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Burton Johnson, ATC, MBA
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Fellowship Application
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Program Requirements
All applicants must be from a residency program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or the American Osteopathic Association in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, or emergency medicine. To consider you for an interview and program admittance, we must receive all of
2008-2009 Primary Care Fellows
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