MedLad Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 I'm thinking of pursuing family medicine and then getting a one year fellowship in sports medicine. What is the fellowship like? How does it affect the job of the physician, the work setting, and the pay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernintendo Chalmers Posted February 5, 2020 Report Share Posted February 5, 2020 The fellowship is highly variable depending on where you go, but you can expect a combination of sports medicine clinics, ortho clinics/OR assist, exercise medicine, physiatry, and/or neuro/derm/sport cardiology/ultrasound etc. You may have a fellow run clinic or not. In my program there was no overnight call but you are expected to have a certain number of game/event coverage hours In the fellowship and you may be assigned a varsity sport team to cover. The work setting after is really what you choose, there is so much you can do with SEM including family clinic, SEM clinics, ultrasound guided injections, ortho assist, high level sport coverage, ER, etc. You can choose to only see athletes or you can choose to see MVC, workplace injuries, active or sedentary individuals. The pay is influenced by what you choose to do so it’s also highly variable. Hope this helps! MedLad 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedLad Posted February 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2020 3 hours ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said: The fellowship is highly variable depending on where you go, but you can expect a combination of sports medicine clinics, ortho clinics/OR assist, exercise medicine, physiatry, and/or neuro/derm/sport cardiology/ultrasound etc. You may have a fellow run clinic or not. In my program there was no overnight call but you are expected to have a certain number of game/event coverage hours In the fellowship and you may be assigned a varsity sport team to cover. The work setting after is really what you choose, there is so much you can do with SEM including family clinic, SEM clinics, ultrasound guided injections, ortho assist, high level sport coverage, ER, etc. You can choose to only see athletes or you can choose to see MVC, workplace injuries, active or sedentary individuals. The pay is influenced by what you choose to do so it’s also highly variable. Hope this helps! Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGrisham Posted February 5, 2020 Report Share Posted February 5, 2020 3 hours ago, Supernintendo Chalmers said: The fellowship is highly variable depending on where you go, but you can expect a combination of sports medicine clinics, ortho clinics/OR assist, exercise medicine, physiatry, and/or neuro/derm/sport cardiology/ultrasound etc. You may have a fellow run clinic or not. In my program there was no overnight call but you are expected to have a certain number of game/event coverage hours In the fellowship and you may be assigned a varsity sport team to cover. The work setting after is really what you choose, there is so much you can do with SEM including family clinic, SEM clinics, ultrasound guided injections, ortho assist, high level sport coverage, ER, etc. You can choose to only see athletes or you can choose to see MVC, workplace injuries, active or sedentary individuals. The pay is influenced by what you choose to do so it’s also highly variable. Hope this helps! The programs in Canada are also quite variable, some stronger than others. Still far behind the US sports med fellowships though, where POCUS and game/team coverage resources it a whole different level! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted February 5, 2020 Report Share Posted February 5, 2020 5 hours ago, JohnGrisham said: The programs in Canada are also quite variable, some stronger than others. Still far behind the US sports med fellowships though, where POCUS and game/team coverage resources it a whole different level! interesting! do Canadian grads have access to those fellowships as well? Or does our reduced time in family medicine residency block that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnGrisham Posted February 6, 2020 Report Share Posted February 6, 2020 23 hours ago, rmorelan said: interesting! do Canadian grads have access to those fellowships as well? Or does our reduced time in family medicine residency block that? Unfortunately I dont think so, you would need to top up to the 3 years, and get ABFM first i think. Though, don't know of anyone going in that direction, only the other way around (US FM to deciding between Canadian fellowship vs US fellowship) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmorelan Posted February 7, 2020 Report Share Posted February 7, 2020 4 hours ago, JohnGrisham said: Unfortunately I dont think so, you would need to top up to the 3 years, and get ABFM first i think. Though, don't know of anyone going in that direction, only the other way around (US FM to deciding between Canadian fellowship vs US fellowship) Too bad, that sounds pretty interesting as a fellowship - and I know many canadian doctors very interested in things like that. Oh well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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