Also sponsored by:
University of Minnesota
Methodist Hospital
Directors: Rob Johnson, MD, CAQ, ACSM & Chuck Anderson, MD, CAQ
5 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408
612-545-9222 Fax: 612-545-9259
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship (PCSM) is a one-year ACGME accredited program conducted under the sponsorship the Department of Family Medicine of Hennepin County Medical Center and the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and Methodist Hospital/Park Nicollet Health Services.
Dr. Rob Johnson, who is one of the pioneers of primary care sports medicine, established the fellowship in 1987. The sports medicine fellowship program was accredited by the ACGME in 1996 during the first accreditation sequence.
Our fellowship program trains four sports medicine fellows per year. Our first fellow graduated in 1988. Since then, there have been 60 graduates of this program. These graduates are practicing sports medicine and primary care medicine in a wide variety of clinical settings across the country. Others have gone into academics and have developed sports medicine teaching programs within the university or residency setting, while others have become sports medicine fellowship program directors.
The sports medicine curriculum includes fitness assessment, exercise prescription for the healthy and those with chronic disease, injury evaluation, injury treatment, supervision of rehabilitation, training room experience at the college and high school level, and a multitude of sideline experiences in many different sports and recreational events.
The fellows are actively involved in patient care in both sports medicine and primary care medicine in their own clinic, including a university student health services clinic. Teaching sports medicine to residents and medical students is another area of emphasis. The fellows provide didactic presentations that are part of the sports medicine elective and the third-year sports medicine curriculum for family medicine residents.
Scholarly activity, including research, is an important component of the fellowship year. Research projects are expected from each fellow and are guided by experienced research staff and faculty. Other scholarly pursuits include fellow presentations in a variety of settings, writing experiences and a sports medicine journal club.
The fellowship education is provided by the family medicine staff with a special interest and expertise in sports and exercise medicine, sports physical therapists, musculoskeletal radiologists and sports medicine fellowship trained orthopaedic surgeons, including orthopaedic surgeons with specialty training in foot/ankle, hand and shoulder/elbow.
