Rotation schedule

You spend the majority of your time at Mayo Clinic Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One day a week is spent at the Mayo Clinic campus in Rochester, Minnesota, where half of the day is in a primary specialty clinic (such as the Musculoskeletal Clinic or PM&R Regenerative Medicine Clinic) and the other half of the day involves rotating with Rochester-based Sports Medicine providers or with other specialists in areas such as Pediatric Sports Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Sports Cardiology, Vascular Medicine, and Sports Pulmonology.

After six months of the fellowship, you may also participate in various electives, such as Hand Clinic or Foot and Ankle Clinic.

Didactic training

A well-defined educational curriculum has been established for the PM&R Sports Medicine Fellowship in Minneapolis, including learning objectives, journal clubs, weekly educational conferences, and an ongoing didactic board review discussion series. This comprehensive didactic curriculum series occurs throughout the year and covers all primary care and orthopedic sports medicine topics relevant to the practice of primary care sports medicine. These didactic sessions are facilitated by the Sports Medicine staff both in Minneapolis and Rochester.

The fellowship also includes formal training in diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound and regenerative medicine techniques. You have reading assignments, weekly scanning sessions, and six cadaveric sessions in the Mayo Clinic Procedural Skills Laboratory (anatomy lab) throughout the 12-month fellowship. You continually acquire additional ultrasound skills by participating in daily patient care activities in Sports Medicine.

There are four additional experiential labs focusing on facial trauma, hand trauma, fracture and dislocation management, and fluoroscopy. 

You have full access to the Mayo Clinic Libraries, including more than 4,000 electronic journals with sophisticated literature search capabilities and vast research support. You have the opportunity to attend the annual Mayo Clinic Symposium on Sports Medicine and the Comprehensive Sports Medicine Update and Board Review Course.

Participation in national sports medicine conferences is encouraged and supported.

Other educational opportunities include:

• Weekly PM&R Grand Rounds
• Participation as a teaching assistant during the annual PM&R Resident Musculoskeletal Course (five months of weekly anatomy, physical examination and ultrasound instruction sessions)
• Teaching of residents who rotate through Sports Medicine
• Teaching clinical athletic trainers as part of a continuing education series