University of Virginia Health System

Sports Medicine Fellowship

Duration: 1 year (July 1 to June 30)
Location: University of Virginia Health System and James Madison University

Goals and Characteristics

The goal is to provide training in sports medicine. Patients include scholastic, collegiate, professional, and avocational athletes.

The sports medicine component consists of caring for athletes from the University of Virginia and many surrounding colleges, high schools, and preparatory schools. There is responsibility to attend football games and other contests of a specified local high school. Practical experience in the training room at the University of Virginia Department of Athletics and at James Madison University includes collaboration with athletic trainers and physical therapists. This includes a major part of patient load involved in sports with heavy preponderance toward knee, upper extremity, and hand injuries. The conferences of the University of Virginia orthopaedic department during residency training include Grand Rounds, fracture conferences, indications conferences, M & M conferences, and basic science, as well as individual conferences in sports medicine, hand and, involvement in treatment. The residents and medical students are an active part of this program. The residency clinics in sports medicine and hand injuries are also a part of the program.

This fellowship is ACGME accredited.
This fellowship participates in the match program.