Penn State Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship, located in State College, Pennsylvania, is a combined effort between the departments of Family Medicine and Orthopaedics. The departments provide a range of primary care, and sports medicine services to the community including athletic medicine, surgery, and clinical follow-up to the central Pennsylvania area. In addition, each of our physicians serve as team physicians for the Intercollegiate Athletic Sports Teams at Penn State University, providing the fellow with ample exposure to both the team physician and athletic populations.
The fellow will play a role in onsite field coverage for athletic teams as scheduling demands and experience and interest dictate. He or she may become involved with any one of the 29 Division 1A sports, as well as participate in any of our club programs such as ice hockey and rugby.
The fellow will have the opportunity to participate directly in the care of all Division I-A Penn State University collegiate athletes, professional athletes, and recreational athletes of the Penn State and State College, PA communities. Work with and learn from fellowship trained sports medicine physicians and sports fellowship trained orthopaedic surgeons, physical therapists, musculoskeletal radiologists, physiatrist, sports psychologist, and sports nutritionist, and other specialists, all available on the Penn State and Mount Nittany Medical Center campuses. Maintain and build upon Family Medicine knowledge and skill base though a weekly continuity clinic. Develop a research project, participate in the planning and medical coverage of the USTAF 50 mile championship event, and focus on areas of special interest through elective rotations. Work closely in conjunction with Penn State Hershey Family and Community Medicine programs.
Our department has a long and proud history in Family Medicine education. In fact, we were the first department of Family Medicine in an academic health center in the United States.
