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Fellowship Highlights

As you build your career in sports medicine, you need a certain knowledge base about athletes and their care needs. Understanding and getting hands-on experience in orthopaedics, rehabilitation and therapy, and nutrition and exercise physiology will help you provide the best care possible for your clients. Whether you would like to treat athletes in your practice or provide sports medicine coverage for athletic events, the ProMedica Toledo Hospital Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship is designed to give you the advanced training necessary to help you achieve your sports care practice goals.

Core Curriculum Opportunities

As a fellow, you will:

  • Provide hands-on team sports coverage at Triple-A baseball, ECHL Minor League hockey, NCAA Division I, area high school, and community athletic events.
  • Prepare and present didactic lectures to athletic trainers, physical therapists, residents, staff and the public on topics ranging from on-field emergencies to rehabilitation.
  • Review pertinent sports medicine literature and landmark research in a monthly journal club.
  • Enhance your understanding of various imaging techniques at a monthly sports medicine radiology conference.
  • Develop research case study skills with opportunities to give formal presentations about significant sports medicine issues at local, state and national meetings.

This core curriculum is based upon the guidelines set forth by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the American Osteopathic Association Council on Postdoctoral Training. If you would like to know more about the fellowship’s core curriculum, you can also view a comprehensive curriculum outline and sample rotation.

Program Highlights

The fellowship’s comprehensive core curriculum means you will be poised for great success in your sports medicine practice upon completion. Another major strength of the program is the breadth of experience you will gain as a fellow. Some of the highlights of your training will include:

Primary Care Sports Medicine Clinic:

Treat sports medicine patients exclusively in the Sports Medicine Clinic, performing initial evaluation and treatment with a knowledgeable faculty that promotes diversity in teaching sports medicine.

Sports Medicine Orthopaedics:

Gain enhanced orthopaedic assessment skills, surgical knowledge and appropriateness of referrals through hands-on instruction and direct observation with fellowship-trained sports medicine orthopaedic surgeons.

Pediatric Sports Medicine Clinic:

Learn proper athletic-screening and sports-injury management techniques for the pediatric population, working side-by-side with a sports medicine-trained pediatrician.

Exercise Physiology:

Consult or refer patients to an on-staff exercise physiologist for sports-specific training regimens and wellness programming, and learn how to conduct cardiac stress tests and fitness evaluations.

Sports Nutrition:

Refer sports medicine patients to a registered dietitian for dietary counseling and monitoring, and learn from individual and group lectures about specific dietary topics and computerized dietary programming.

Sports Psychology:

Consult a clinical psychologist to evaluate and treat sports-related psychological disorders, and learn from informal individual discussion and group lectures about specific sports psychology topics.

Physical Therapy / Rehabilitation:

Work directly with an on-site sports medicine physical therapy clinic to evaluate, treat and rehabilitate patients with athletic injuries and provide post-operative care while learning rehabilitation concepts, use of modalities, bracing/taping techniques and functional evaluation of athletes.

Primary Care Specialty:

Focus on your own primary care discipline at local ProMedica facilities. ProMedica facilities serve the communities of 23 counties across northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan.

Learn more

We appreciate your interest in the ProMedica Toledo Hospital Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship, and we invite you to take a few minutes to learn more about the program. Meet our faculty and fellows and learn about the program’s benefits. Investigate our main facility and learn more about the area. Interested in applying? You can apply online or contact our fellowship coordinator for more information.

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