Ours is a one year well-balanced comprehensive sports and spine fellowship in an academic setting. The fellowship is ACGME-accredited in sports medicine so an individual completing our fellowship will be eligible to take the subspecialty board exam for sports. Fellows will be involved in team coverage, major race event coverage, spinal injections, teaching residents and medical students, cadaveric dissection, radiology conferences, and organizing journal clubs. There will be opportunities for electives, including exposure to electrodiagnostic procedures. Fellows will also be involved in a scholarly activity, which could be conducting original research, publishing original research or a review article, or presenting at a national meeting. There is some flexibility to adapt fellowship to meet individual interests. The fellow will have exposure to physical therapy and occupational therapy, with emphasis on functional rehabilitation.
Starting in July 2012, the will be an opportunity for a Musculoskeletal Research Fellowship position. This position will be at least 75% time spent engaged in research and research training with appropriate mentorship. This fellowship position is for applicants interested in pursuing a career in musculoskeletal research. For more information about the program, please refer to the Spine and Sports Fellowship Brochure.
Joel Press, MD
Joseph Ihm, MD
Ellen Casey, MD
Monica Rho, MD
Andrew Hendrix, MD
I. Care of patient with musculoskeletal pain related complaints
- Gather essential information and accurate patient information
- Develop and implement patient management plans
- Perform competently all medical procedures, and provide services aimed at preventing secondary complications
- Make decisions about diagnostic and therapeutic interventions
- Formulate differential diagnosis for patients with focal and regional pain complaints
- Identify indications for imaging and electrodiagnostic studies
- Identify indications for peripheral joint injections
- Identify indications for ordering spinal injections; able to describe level and routes
- Understand risks of peripheral joint, soft tissue, and spine injections
- Compose rehabilitative and preventative exercise prescription
- Identify conditions that require surgical referral
- Experience reading spine, knee, hip, shoulder, ankle x-rays and spine, knee, shoulder MRI’s
- Demonstrate the role of the physiatrist and concept of team approach to care, working effectively/collaboratively as leader of the team
- Communicate effectively and demonstrate caring/respectful behaviors with patients and staff
- Experience with performing peripheral joint injection under sterile technique safely
- Experience with performing spinal injection procedures under sterile
- Experience with using fluoroscopy in a safe manner
- Gain exposure to ultrasound-guided injections
- Understand the role for complementary/alternative medicine
II. Clinical Science - Develop knowledge base of the person impaired by musculoskeletal pain related complaints
- Understand biologic basis for tissue injury and repair
- Understand biologic pain mechanisms
- Understand kinesiology principles of the spine, shoulder, knee, ankle, foot
- Understand clinically relevant anatomy and biomechanics
- Understand physiologic effect of exercise on health and fitness, prevention and rehabilitation of injuries, and augmentation of sports performance
- Understand physiologic effect of therapeutic modalities on soft tissues
- Understand the degenerative cascade of the spine
- Understand manual and functional rehabilitation approaches
- Understand relevance of peer-reviewed journal articles and how evidence-based medicine can be incorporated into clinical practice
III. System Based Practice - Appreciate care provided to the person with musculoskeletal pain related complaints in context of larger health care system
- Understand financial and quality of life implications for the patient and society
- Advocate for quality patient care and assist patients in dealing with system complexities
- Learn how to partner with health care managers, coaches, primary care physicians, and physical therapists as appropriate to assess, coordinate, and improve health care and how these activities impact system performance
Application Process
Applicants will be expected to submit a letter of interest, C.V. and three professional references to the Fellowship Program Director.
The application deadline for the Spine and Sports Rehabilitation Medicine Fellowship is September 1, 2011. For more information, please contact:  | Joseph Ihm, MD
Director,
Spine and Sports Rehabilitation Fellowship
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago/
Feinberg School of Medicine
1030 N. Clark St, 5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60610
Email: jihm1@ric.org
Phone:(312)-238-1000 |
Additional information can be obtained from the Office of Medical Education, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, 345 East Superior Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611, (312) 238-2870. To request information via e-mail write to rbailey@northwestern.edu |
