residency in sports medicine

[ZON]

What is it exactly?

I know it deals with working with athletes etc

but how many years?

[tralfaz]

What is it exactly?

I know it deals with working with athletes etc

but how many years?

1) It can be a rotation during an orthopedic surgery residency or a fellowship after it is done:
Sports medicine - Residency Information (http://www.orthop.washington.edu/uw/residencyinformation/tabID__3376/ItemID__112/PageID__186/Articles/Default.aspx)
Vanderbilt Sports Medicine (http://www.vsm.vanderbilt.edu/fellowship2.html)

2)It can also be a primary care fellowship (i.e., done after a residency):
Family Practice Residency Programs offering Fellowship in Sports Medicine (http://www.aafp.org/residencies/felsport.html)
Primary Care Sports Medicine Residency at Grant Medical Center - OhioHealth (http://www.ohiohealth.com/bodygrant.cfm?id=536#ra)
Family Medicine Residency (http://www.fammed.washington.edu/residency/spmedfellow.htm)

Here is an explanation of what the fellowship entails:
The goal of the Montana Family Medicine Sports Medicine Fellowship is to produce primary care physicians who are excellent in their ability to manage patients with musculo-skeletal problems as well as general medical problems as they pertain to athletics and exercise. Additionally, the fellow will design and complete a primary research project in sports medicine and be responsible for teaching the sports medicine curriculum to the Family Medicine residents.*

*-Taken from the Montana Family Residency website.

The fellowship typically lasts one year.