abcrod Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 I'm interested in working with sports related injuries. What area would be the most relevant? Family med? Rehab? Does anyone know if sports med can be your entire practice? or will I be doing other things and sports med is just one aspect of total care? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satsuma Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 I believe you want to look into the specialization of physiatry. I am not an expert in the area, but I believe you can tailor your career to what you want. I know physiatrists who just do stroke rehab or just do ABI rehab. I imagine, but someone else on the board may be able to give more details, that you could tailor your practice to just be sports related injuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsteen Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 Hi there, There are a number of areas which can focus on sports-related medicine (one of my classmates is interested in this and has been scoping them all out). For one, as mentioned above, PM&R, i.e., Physical Medicine & Rehab. It permits branching into all sorts of different areas of rehab, e.g., sports injury, burn-related injury, etc. Then there's Orthopedic Surgery. There are a number of Ortho surgeons I know who have narrowed their practice scope to sports medicine. Then, as you suggested, there's Family Medicine where you have the freedom to focus your practice in sports-related injuries. All of these might be most easily achieved if your practice operates alongside a group of other specialists who have similar sports-related interests. Cheers, Kirsteen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muchdutch Posted September 23, 2006 Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 My physician practices family med but she has a fellowship in sports med. She chose to go this route because this way she has the focus of being able to do only sports med if she wants, but she also has the variety that a family med clinic will give her, she says, so she doesn't only 'end up looking at tears and sprains day in and day out'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riffraff Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 Hey, This is just out of curiosity.. say you wanted to be a sports doc with the L.A. Lakers or somethin'. How do docs land these sort of positions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastalslacker Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 Physiatry and Ortho are the main routes to high level sports medicine, nowadays. One year fellowships are offered, and lots of family docs get them, but apparently to do the high level stuff (ie olympic team doctor) you need a 5 year residency program-don't ask me why, this was just from a friend who is considering going this route. For all interested, the Ontario Sports Medicine conference should be coming up in January. I went last year and although I didn't find it as interesting or educational as I had hoped it might be, for the keener sports med people I went with it was a great opportunity to network and get involved with the sports medicine community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quickdraw_mcgraw Posted April 4, 2007 Report Share Posted April 4, 2007 Generally professional team docs in North America are Orthopedic surgeons with 2 years of fellowship in Sports related surgery. The major Toronto team physicians are Orthopedic surgeons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goniometer Posted April 5, 2007 Report Share Posted April 5, 2007 Generally professional team docs in North America are Orthopedic surgeons with 2 years of fellowship in Sports related surgery. The major Toronto team physicians are Orthopedic surgeons. Not true. The Maple Leafs head team physician (Noah Forman) is a GP/sports medicine physician. The previous Leafs head team physician (Micheal Clarfield) is also a GP/sports medicine physician (he was with the team for 15 years). As well, the majority of Olympic physicians are GP's with R3's in sports med. Here you can find a list of the Canadian Olympic physicians for the 2004 Athens games: http://www.olympic.ca/EN/games/olympic/summer/athens/mission_staff.shtml It does not say their specialties on that page but I'm sure you could find that info elsewhere (or look them up individually). I'll save you the time and tell you that there were 8 Olympic physicians for team Canada in 2004, 5 were GP's, 2 were Orthopedic surgeons, and 1 was an EM doc. After discussing this with a colleague, I thought that I would add the info. for the other Toronto pro teams... Toronto Raptors: The Raps head team physician is an orthopedic surgeon (Paul Marks) and 1 GP/sports med physician (Tim Rindlisbacher). Toronto Blue Jays medical staff: The head team physician (Bernie Gosevitz) and team physician (Ron Taylor) are both GP/sports med physicians. The Jays also have 2 orthopedic surgeons (Allan Gross, Steve Mirabello). Toronto Argonauts: Head team physician is a GP/sports med (Anthony Galea), 1 other GP/sports med (Tim Rindlisbacher), 1 orthopedic surgeon (Rick Zarnett). Hope this helps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quickdraw_mcgraw Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 But none are physiatry right? Fair enough about Toronto, but if there was a strong Sports Surgery Program in Toronto like in Ottawa (Don Johnson) or London (Pete Fowler, Bob Giffin) things might be different. Al Gross is a specialist in arthroplasty and structural allograft. He hasn't fixed an ACL in years. I wouldn't go into physiatry to do sports medicine. If you want to take care of player's gonorrhea, go into GP sports medicine. If you want to actually fix sports injuries in the big leagues, become an orthopedic surgeon with a two year fellowship in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Duke or Denver where the big research is being done. Fowler went to Duke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satsuma Posted September 13, 2008 Report Share Posted September 13, 2008 I just wanted to add...since attending the CAEP conference this year...that you can do sports med via emerg. The one doctor that spoke to us about her career does (in addition to emerg shifts) clinics at the university sports centre and has been the varsity teams doc as well as doing many other sporting events. She had a whole list of teams and sporting events she's worked with/at and pictures of her with apparently famous people....but it was all over my head since I am not into the whole sports thing...so I can`t recall which events they were specifically, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.P.87 Posted October 5, 2008 Report Share Posted October 5, 2008 Hi All, I'm new to the board and am still an undergrad trying to claw my way into the med school ranks. I am a sports fanatic and love almost every popular american sport. Being able to be part of a sports team and be involved in sporting events as a career would be a dream come true. I previously thought that there was a "sports med" specialty in residency but after reading your messages I guess I was wrong. Can someone give me a rough outline of how you can get sports med-specific training? I saw a previous post mentioning 1-year and 5-year fellowships for family docs, how do those work? Outside of the specialties listed here (Family physician, orthopedic surgeon, rehabilitation medicine) are there any others through which one can get involved in sports medicine? Thanks in advance for any info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satsuma Posted October 5, 2008 Report Share Posted October 5, 2008 So...after you finish med school, you apply for residency. The length of residency depends on your specialty with most being around 5 years and family being 2 years. You complete a fellowship after you complete your residency. There are no fellowships that are 5 years in duration. The sports med you do with family med is 1 year (this is the same fellowship you would do if you were to do it via emerg. Most 5-year emerg programs allow you up to a year of electives and if you are doing well enough in your core emerg you could use that time to complete a year of fellowship...for example sports med). The routes to enter into sports med are already outlined in this thread. You will need to do some research into which aspect of sports med interests you. Once you are in med school and completing your rotations that will help you figure out what you like and what you don`'t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.P.87 Posted October 5, 2008 Report Share Posted October 5, 2008 thanks for the info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKY Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 I found this link: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:oi83ck-nni4J:www.casm-acms.org/documents/OttawaSportMedFellowship.doc+University+of+Ottawa+Sports+Medicine+Fellowship&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1 I was wondering if Ottawa U still offers a Sports Medicine Fellowship? I can't seem to find it on their website. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.