PM&R Sports Medicine Fellowship
Fellowship Director: Michael Fredericson, MD
The application deadline is October 1.
The goal of the Stanford University (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) PM&R Sports Medicine Fellowship is to provide PM&R physicians with additional training in the academic field of sports medicine. The Stanford Sports Medicine Center is a state-of-the-art multidisciplinary facility with on-site clinics, imaging (ultrasound, x-ray, CT and MRI), electrodiagnostics lab, therapy gym and surgery center.
The fellow will work and learn in this dynamic environment under the guidance of the program director and its many faculty. Faculty include fellowship-trained sports medicine and musculoskeletal specialists from PM&R, orthopaedic surgery, physical therapy and radiology. The fellow will see and treat patients from a diverse population based on age, gender, ethnicity, culture and socioeconomic status, allowing for growth in professional development.
The fellow will be exposed to the athletic experience and team coverage of elite NCAA and club sport athletes through regular clinics at the Stanford training room and student health center. The fellow will also have exposure in helping treat the disabled sports population at Palo Alto Veterans Hospital.
The fellow will have extensive exposure to the management of sports-related medical and orthopaedic injuries and ailments. In addition to learning a sports-specific musculoskeletal examination, a review of imaging, an orthotic evaluation and principles of rehabilitation in sports injury, the fellow will learn peripheral joint, bursa and tendon sheath injections (with the use of ultrasound guidance, as appropriate) and selected fluoroscopically guided axial/spinal injections, compartment pressure testing, outpatient management of acute, uncomplicated fractures, including bracing, splinting and casting techniques, and advanced electrodiagnostic skills.
Fellows will additionally have the opportunity to learn principles of biomechanical gait and running analysis, VO2 testing, lactate threshold testing, and bike fit evaluations in our human performance lab.
This is a strongly academic program. The fellow will have an integral role in education thru interaction with residents and medical students and by contributing to and organizing aspects of the fellows' multidisciplinary case conference, fellows-combined academic sports medicine conference, fellows journal club, and cadaver lab sessions. The fellowship fosters clinical research, and the fellow is expected to publish in a peer reviewed journal. Basic science research opportunities are available through interdisciplinary efforts for those interested.
This one-year fellowship begins on August 1 and is ACGME accredited. Fellows must have a California medical license and be board certified or board eligible in PM&R before beginning the fellowship. In addition to the universal application, we require you to submit your medical school transcripts and dean's letter. All materials can be sent to ashley85@stanford.edu.
For additional questions, please contact:
Michael Fredericson, MD, FACSM
Professor, Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine
Director, PM&R Sports Medicine Service
Team Physician, Stanford Athletics
Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center
450 Broadway Street, MC6342
Redwood City, CA 94063
Ashley Johnson
Coordinator, PM&R Sports Medicine Fellowship
Office: (650) 721-7627
Fax: (650) 721-3470
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