Rotation schedule

You are scheduled for the majority of your time in sports medicine. In addition, you must spend at least one half-day per week maintaining your skills in your primary specialty areas.

Mandatory rotations are scheduled during the 12-month fellowship and include:

• Pediatric sports medicine
• Orthopedic sports medicine
• Emergency medicine
• Sports cardiology
• Sports physical therapy
• Sports performance
• Vascular medicine
• Pulmonology

Additional labs and workshops are scheduled during the 12-month fellowship and include:

• Procedural Skills Lab (at least six sessions)
• Facial Trauma Lab
• Fracture/Dislocation Workshop
• Hand Lab
• Trauma Fluoroscopy Workshop

You may also participate in various electives such as:

• Cast Room
• Electrodiagnostic Laboratory
• Foot and Ankle Clinic
• Hand Clinic
• Minnesota Twins Spring Training
• Pain Clinic
• Radiology
• Spine Center
• Mayo Clinic Square (Minneapolis) Sports Medicine Center (four weeks)
• Sports Trauma Emergency Medicine
• United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee rotation (one week)

Didactic training

A weekly sports medicine conference occurs each Thursday morning. The format of this conference is typically case presentations or topic-specific presentations (e.g. ACL injuries, orthobiologics, etc), in which cases or topics are presented and discussed by various sports medicine staff, including the trainees of the PM&R sports fellowship programs, physical therapy residency programs, and orthopedic surgery sports medicine fellowship program.

An all-staff Sports Medicine Journal Club occurs quarterly, supplemented by a monthly fellowship-specific Sports Medicine Journal Club held by the program director, associate program director, fellow, Mayo Clinic Square fellowship program, and rotating PM&R residents. You are responsible for organizing the Sports Medicine Journal Club sessions with the Mayo Clinic Square fellow.

A comprehensive didactic curriculum is scheduled throughout the year, covering all primary care and orthopedic sports medicine topics relevant to the practice of primary care sports medicine. Didactic sessions are held weekly and are facilitated by Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine staff. As a fellow, you have access to the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Board Review Course.

You will complete an in-depth didactic experience in diagnostic and interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound, consisting of reading assignments, weekly scanning sessions, and several cadaveric sessions throughout the 12-month fellowship.

Additionally, you will have a dedicated extracorporeal shockwave treatment curriculum including both reading assignments and hands-on clinical experience with radial pressure wave and focused shockwave. You will review the physics, indications, contraindications, peri-/post-procedural considerations, and treatment protocols for common conditions.

During the day-to-day activities of the fellowship, you interact directly with Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine staff, including supervising physicians, physical therapists, and athletic trainers.

Other educational opportunities include:

• PM&R Department Journal Clubs
• PM&R Grand Rounds
• Orthopedic Surgery Grand Rounds
• Participation as a teaching assistant during the annual PM&R Resident Musculoskeletal Course (five months of weekly physical examination and ultrasound instruction sessions)
• Teaching medical students and residents from the PM&R, internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, and rheumatology departments who rotate through sports medicine
• Teaching learning objectives to PM&R residents weekly