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Rudy Guliani said:
what's the typical path for getting into sports medicine?
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Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, PM&R
 
You can enter primary care sports med with any primary care residency but if you look at the statistics, 90%+ of fellowships are awarded to FP grads.

Last year, there was 1 EM, 2 IM, 6 peds and 0 PM&R getting fellowships.
 
the vast majority of sports medicine fellowships are given to fp's. you can also do sports med after ortho. check out the aafp.com site and go to fellowships and look up sports med. good luck...
 
Ortho, FP/IM, ER and PM&R all have their own sports fellowships geared toward their specialty.

FP/IM/Peds-often function as team docs, perform preparticipation physicals, etc.

ER-learn management of acute sports injuries

PM&R-focus on prevention and rehab of sports injuries including overuse syndromes with conditioning of the athlete

Ortho-as you might guess, focus on surgical repair of sports injuries where indicated.
 
BellKicker said:
You can enter primary care sports med with any primary care residency but if you look at the statistics, 90%+ of fellowships are awarded to FP grads.

Last year, there was 1 EM, 2 IM, 6 peds and 0 PM&R getting fellowships.
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What fellowships are you talking about? There are definitely more than 9 sports med fellowship spots in the country.

All of these specialties have their own sports med fellowships.

Primary care specialties, esp. FP, have the most followed by ortho and PM&R.

Sports fellowships vary widely among specialties and may not be appropriate for applicants from other specialties. E.g. an ortho fellowship would not be appropriate for a family practicioner or a physiatrist.
 
Disciple said:
What fellowships are you talking about? There are definitely more than 9 sports med fellowship spots in the country.
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Yeah but then there's the 90%+ going to FPs....... 😉

(I just listed the ones going to "atypical" residencies).
 
You're right. I would still argue that FP is the "typical path" (which the OP asked for) into sports medicine.

Maybe it's better if I provided a link:

http://www.nrmp.org/fellow/match_name/sports_med/stats.html


I don't know if the statistics mean that there is one single IM sports med program in the country, that only IM grads can apply to. That would surprise me. Or 2 EM programs or 6 pediatrics programs. I think all primary care grads can apply to all programs but that's just my impression.
 
Hmmm, now that I look closer, I realize my above statements are wrong. There is no way to determine which grads match into fellowships (if all applicants can apply to all programs).

With a match rate of 67%, it seems like a pretty tough match, though, regardless of specialty.

Isn't there a single sports medicine fellow on SDN who can cast some light on this? Or at least an FP resident in a program with a sports medicine fellowship?
 
I can't speak for the other specialties, but as far as I know most primary care sports medicine fellowships aren't open to PM&R residents.

PM&R has its own sports or sports/interventional spine fellowships and doesn't use a match system.
 
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