Curriculum

Achievement strategy: The fellows will play an active role as team physician for the sports teams that they work with. They will be expected to interact regularly with coaches, trainers, athletes and medical consultants. Every effort will be made to include the fellows in decision-making role. This fellowship is designed to be very much a “hands on” experience.

Goal: To develop the administrative skills to manage and coordinate sports medicine care for athletic teams and programs as well specific sporting events.

Achievement strategy: The fellows will be included in administrative and management meetings whenever possible. Attending faculty will be encouraged to discuss the management and administrative details of the practice of sports medicine whenever possible.

Goal: To develop the research skills including research methodologies with the goal of producing a scholarly paper for publication or presentation during the fellowship year.

Achievement strategy: The fellows will work with the attending faculty, academic staff at San Jose State University and Stanford University to develop, design and implement a research project to be completed during the fellowship year. The project will emphasize critical literature review, study design and methodology, statistical analysis of data and medical writing skills. The expectation is that this will be of publishable quality. The AMSSM research course material and UC San Francisco medical writing workshop will be included as part of the research curriculum.

Goal: To develop teaching and public speaking skills.

Achievement strategy: The fellows will be responsible for developing and presenting 8-10 lectures during the course of the fellowship year. The lectures will be given as part of the family practice residency curriculum, sports medicine grand rounds, physician assistant students at Stanford University, community events and national sports medicine meetings. They will also be involved in numerous small group tutorials with medical students and residents. The attending faculty will review teaching skills and strategies.

Goal: To provide the fellows with a fundamental understanding of human performance issues. Specific knowledge base areas would include: sports physiology, clinical anatomy, biomechanics, sports psychology, sports nutrition and .

Achievement strategy: This goal will be achieved formally through directed readings and tutorial sessions. It will be informally achieved with the day-to-day teaching opportunities that arise when providing care to athletes in the sports medicine clinics and training rooms.