The Stanford Healthcare-O’Connor Hospital Sports Medicine Fellowship Program is an accredited program through the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The focus of our program is to train excellent primary care sports medicine clinicians.  As a result our curriculum has been tailored to achieve this goal.

General overview

• Clinical experience:

  • Approximately 70% of the fellow’s time will be spent in an ambulatory clinical setting.

  • Stanford Healthcare sports medicine clinics

  • Primary specialty continuity experience

  • Community clinic experience with adjunct faculty

  • PM&R sports

  • FM sports/martial arts medicine

  • Orthopedic sports

  • Podiatric MSK

  • Orthopedic/Sports Physical Therapy

  • Pediatric Orthopedics

• Team and event coverage: 

  • Approximately 20% of the fellow’s time will be providing care in training room clinics, covering games, or mass events.

• Training room experience:  San Jose State (SJSU), San Jose City College, De Anza College

• Game coverage:  SJSU, San Jose City College, De Anza College, Valley Christian High School

• Event coverage:  IronMan 70.3 Santa Cruz, Rock’n’Roll half marathon San Jose

• Scholarly activity: 

  • Approximately 10% of the fellow’s time will be spent engaged in scholarly activity

  • Quality improvement projects

  • Case reports

  • Research

Other Experiential Components

• 1 month elective rotation

• 1 month ski medicine rotation - Palisades Lake Tahoe, CA

• MSK Ultrasound

  • Weekly hands on didactic curriculum (see separate page for further details)

  • 1-2 cadaver lab sessions per year

Academic Components

• Weekly didactic curriculum 

• Monthly Journal Club

• Teaching/Lecturing opportunities (FM residency and Stanford medical students)

• Sports medicine curriculum lecture series and workshops - responsible for 3-4 lectures per year.

• Required Quality Improvement project

• Submission of paper or case study for presentation for annual AMSSM meeting

• Community lectures