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Goals and Characteristics
This Sports Medicine Fellowship is designed to offer an extensive clinical and research experience in sports medicine and ligament reconstruction of the knee, shoulder, and elbow. It focuses on operative and non operative care of the athlete. Exposure to arthroscopic and open procedures; with a 4 month shoulder/elbow rotation, 3 month knee rotation, 2 month adolescent sports rotation, 1 month hip rotation and 2 month research rotation. Each fellow spends between 1 1/2 Ð 2 days per week in clinic. Care of sport teams is a part of the fellowship. The clinic participates in care of the athletes, coverage of UFL (NY Sentinel/Hartford Colonials), Professional Major League Lacrosse, Division II Men and WomenÕs hockey, soccer, basketball, baseball and high school sporting events with on field and independent training room evaluations. wet/dry lab on site.
The design of our program is to benefit Fellows whose career goals include being part of or creating a private practice focused on sports medicine. Our program transforms the medical student to the independent practitioner along the continuum of medical education. Our Fellows will ultimately assume personal responsibility for the care of individual patients. Progressive responsibility is one of the core tenants of our program. The Fellowship was accredited by the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) in 2006, and received ACGME accreditation for two fellowship positions in July 2008. As with university based programs, within our Fellowship program we offer strong and thorough instruction on medical topics in a structured academic setting and research opportunities with breadth and depth enough to allow for the creation of published results. However, in association with a successful private practice focused on sports medicine, we pride ourselves in including the following as elements of our FellowsÕ experience:
- Pre-to-post op interactions with an identifiable pool of patients allowing our Fellows the opportunity to know their patients from the initial first clinic visit through post op management and rehabilitative care. A fellow learns how to perform Quality Improvement on their own patients, and follows their patients' progress through post operative appointments.
- Interactions with a wide array of non-physician professionals who can offer training on successful billing, coding, staff management, hiring and firing, business planning and IT practices that will assist Fellows in making a successful transition to private practice. The proof of the value of this experience is the number of our Fellows who have successfully joined orthopaedic and sports medicine groups around the country, but more importantly, the number of our Fellows who have established their own successful private practices.
- Weekly OR experiences in an exceptionally wide array of medical facilities, including university based teaching hospitals, non-profit community hospitals, for profit and physician owned hospitals, and ambulatory surgery centers. We believe that our association with this wide range of surgical experiences offers an exceptionally broad and quite unique learning experience for our Fellows.
- Weekly clinical experiences in varied settings and locations and with practices whose focus varies within sports medicine, including urban orthopaedic and sports medicine clinics, suburban family sports medicine settings and suburban / rural pediatric sports medicine practices. Again, we believe this wide array of clinical experiences provides a strong foundation for the many elements of patients seen in a sports medicine practice.
Interviews this year will take place on February 8, 2013 at our Cos Cob, CT office.
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Kevin Plancher, MD, Chairman of the Board
Janine D. Bahar, Executive Director
Richard Bisk
Duane Hill
George Kollitides II
Albert Nickel
Robert Panza
Robert Plancher
Kenneth M. Wisdom
Mary Ellen Yacura
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