Saturday, May 16, 2009

Learning orthopedic surgery - Medical education

If you are interested in orthopedic surgery you should do an ortho residency after med school and follow that with a sports med fellowship. If you are interested in Primary Care, you should do a primary care residency (FP, ER, Peds, IM, etc) after med school and follow that with a primary care sports medicine fellowship. Join the sports med club at your school. Rotate with clinicians that do a lot of sports medicine in their practices. Attend sports medicine conferences and read the sports medicine literature. These are all things that will be helpful to you.

P. Gunnar Brolinson, DO, FAOASM, FAAFP

Associate Dean for Clinical Research

Director, Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship

Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Team Physician, Virginia Tech

112 Merryman Center

Blacksburg, VA 24061

Phone: 540-231-7741

Fax: 540-231-3289

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