We offer unsurpassed facilities at a world-class hospital and research center
The exceptional facilities at Ohio State provide the right environment for learning, including our Jameson Crane Sports Medicine Institute. It is the largest and most comprehensive sports medicine-dedicated facility in the country.
Learn from highly experienced faculty
We have a large and diversified faculty with plenty of real-world experience, connected to one of the best collegiate athletic departments in the nation. Our program provides the knowledge and skills to excel in the field, whether you go on to become a team physician or a sports medicine specialist.
Practical experience at many levels
Ohio State sports medicine fellows assist with the care of more than 900 Division I NCAA athletes on 36 varsity Buckeye teams through event and training room coverage. We also care for athletes at Capital University, a Division III NCAA school located in Columbus, and several outstanding high school athletic programs.
Program Basics
The Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Program is a one-year Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited fellowship program. It’s sponsored by the Department of Family and Community Medicine at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The fellowship is a one-on-one learning experience with an assigned attending staff member.
The program has six longitudinal block rotations, allowing for both continuity as well as diversity. The rotation blocks will include experiences with primary care, sports medicine, orthopaedics, pediatric sports medicine, radiology, training room coverage, sports ultrasound and OMT (osteopathic manipulation therapy).
- Learn the skills to care for any active individual in all aspect of health care including primary care and musculoskeletal medicine
- Refine his or her ability to critically evaluate an athletic injury through history, physical exam, differential diagnosis and appropriate ordering and interpretation of X-rays, MRIs, bone scans and other imaging
- Refine his or her ability to develop treatment options with the understanding of surgical risks and benefits, physical therapy modalities and exercises
- Appropriately apply these abilities in different environments including the office setting, the training room and event coverage
- Be exposed to the multidisciplinary aspect of caring for athletes with interaction and exposure to athletic trainers, physical therapists, primary care sports medicine specialists, orthopedic specialists, sport psychologists, sports nutritionists and other specialists within our system
- Become familiar with sports medicine literature and develop the ability to critically review it
- Experience the process of producing a publishable quality research project
- Participate in mass event coverage and learn what’s involved in coordinating care for such an event
- Learn the basics of musculoskeletal ultrasound and how to appropriately use it in a clinical setting
- Learn the basics of innovative interventions including orthobiologics, percutaneous tenotomy and extracorporal shock wave therapy
Additional requirements of the fellowship are detailed in the Curriculum section of this site.