Learning Resources
Fellows interact with orthopedic surgery residents during Sports Medicine Grand Rounds talks and training room activities at Rice University. Fellows also interact with other residents at the Family Medicine Residency during their continuity clinic experience at the Family Medicine Center.
Didactic Teaching
There are five major components to the didactic teaching for the PCSM fellow:
Library Resources
Fellows have access to multiple online resources:
There is also a library in the main clinic that has standard sports medicine textbooks.
Didactic Teaching
There are five major components to the didactic teaching for the PCSM fellow:
- Patient Centered Patient exposure serves as an opportunity to discuss pathophysiology of the disease process or injury - risk factors, aspects of recovery, ethics of return to sport decisions.
- Monthly PCSM Lecture Series In this hour-long didactic session, Faculty or guest lecturers present topics of interest to sports medicine physicians on a wide variety of topics including the pathology of illness and injury, pharmacology, ergogenic aids and supplements, sports psychology and medical illnesses related to sport participation.
Lecture topics include, but are not limited to: - Supplements and ergogenic aids
- Knee Injury evaluation and management
- Concussion evaluation and management
- Sports nutrition
- Upper extremity injuries in adolescent throwing athletes
- Cardiovascular pathology
- EKG abnormalities in athletes
- Common injuries in gymnastics, cheer and dance
- Evaluation and management of common foot and ankle injuries
- Medical concerns in endurance sports
- Basics of musculoskeletal imaging
- Osteopathic manipulation in sports
- Evaluation and management of common hand/wrist injuries in sports
- Quarterly Journal Club This is an hour long discussion of recent sports medicine articles and reviews and an opportunity to discuss subjects not commonly seen in clinic, to foster a deeper understanding of medical issues, biomechanics and injury treatment in sports medicine.
- The Daily Question From August through May of the fellowship year, fellows are sent a daily question covering the entirety of sports medicine - anatomy, musculoskeletal injury, non musculoskeletal injury, medical illnesses in sports and sport-specific questions. Allowed to use a variety of sources to answer the question, fellows must respond by 8 a.m. the next morning.
- Orthopedic Sports Medicine Grand Rounds Via videoconference, this weekly presentation is attended by all sports medicine fellows and residents rotating on Sports Medicine. Lectures are given primarily by the faculty and residents of the orthopedic surgery sports medicine fellowship at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston.
Library Resources
Fellows have access to multiple online resources:
- UpToDate
- PubMed
- Multiple online textbooks
- STAT!Ref
There is also a library in the main clinic that has standard sports medicine textbooks.