Thank you for your interest in our Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship!
Primary Care Sports Medicine is a dynamic and rapidly growing sub-specialty in the medical profession and its specialists recognize the need for a unique skill set in providing care for athletic patients.
The goal of our program is to provide the sports medicine fellow with the appropriate training to evaluate and optimize the athlete-patient's performance while mitigating the effects of acute and chronic disease and injury on health and performance. This program is designed to meet all of the special requirements put forth for graduated medical education training programs in primary care sports medicine.
In our program, sports medicine fellows acquire general orthopedic and medical knowledge in addition to learning to apply osteopathic principles in the evaluation and treatment of athletic patients, across a vast population of patients. We are one of only a handful of fellowship programs in the country to earn Osteopathic Recognition.
The fellow will work with the sports medicine team, which may include athletic trainers, orthopedic surgeons, and other providers to create a holistic, comprehensive, and team approach to the management of the patient. An evidence-based approach is used to benefit the athlete patient and promote wellness and provide a supportive rehabilitative environment. Our fellows also have the opportunity to participate in a variety of clinical and biomedical research programs during their fellowship year and acquire clinical skills in the use of musculoskeletal ultrasound through participation in our designated curriculum.
Our program includes four positions at VCOM-Virginia, and we offer all fellows extraordinary training opportunities through collaboration with Virginia Tech and Radford University Athletics, Virginia Tech Club Sports, and several local high schools associated with our programs.
Thanks for your interest in our fellowship. For more information, visit our Virginia Sports Medicine Fellowship website.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions.
Sincerely,
Mark Rogers, DO, CAQSM, FAAFP, FAOASM
Program Director