Sports Medicine Fellowship

Description

The USC Sports Medicine Fellowship is a one-year clinical fellowship that develops well-rounded sports medicine orthopaedic surgeons, academic leaders and team physicians. Our goal is to offer fellows a broad clinical experience in the operative and nonoperative management of athletic injuries of the shoulder, knee, elbow, hip and foot/ankle and on-the-field management of competitive athletes

The fellow will have broad exposure to sports medicine to learn both conservative treatment and cutting-edge surgical treatment of sports injuries, gaining experience in:

A critical aspect of our fellowship is the opportunity to provide physician team coverage to USC Trojans intercollegiate athletes, a group of more than 700 world-class athletes encompassing 21 varsity sports. Fellows work closely with faculty and an excellent team of athletic trainers led by Russ Romano, ATC, head athletic trainer. Fellows will learn cutting-edge rehabilitation protocols and return-to-sport pathways at the John McKay Center on the USC University Park Campus.

The fellowship also includes team coverage responsibility for the Los Angeles Kings (NHL) team and provides exposure to the state-of-the-art rehabilitation and biomechanics program at the Toyota Sports Performance Center

A formal education component consists of weekly conferences, didactic teaching, and MRI correlation conference. Department residents work in an arthroscopy teaching lab and fellows function as instructors in the lab.

The fellow is expected to complete research projects over the course of the fellowship.   The clinical fellows are supported by a team of student research fellows who assist in project organization, data collection, and manuscript preparation.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) and the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) accredit this fellowship.

Fellowship Information

George F. Rick Hatch, III, MD
Sports Medicine Fellowship Director

Duration: One year (Aug. 1 to July 31)

Stipend: $74,000

Location: Keck Medical Center of USC

Applying for the Fellowship

The Sports Medicine fellowship program is accredited by ACGME for two positions per year. We fill both positions via the San Francisco Matching Program (SF Match).

The USC Sports Medicine Fellowship program abides by all of the policies set by the SF Match and by the AOSSM regarding fellowship selection.

Applications are due each year on Nov. 1. Interviews are held in February each year.