Fellowship
The Next Generation of Sports Medicine
Have you completed your residency and are now interested in specializing in sports medicine? Learn about our fellowship program, including how to enrol and what you can expect during your training.
Overview
Our goal is to provide expert evidence based care for soft tissue trauma and sports injuries, including specialized care for complex problems. To advance science in soft tissue and sports trauma by design, implementation and participation in quality clinical trials. To measure health services outcomes and assess population health through value and access to care. To develop and establish novel methods of assessing competence in post graduate medical education, with a focus on surgical simulation.
Fellows in the sports program can gain experience in ACL repairs, knee and shoulder reconstructions with intra-articular surgery, ankle scopes – ligamentous reconstruction, open shoulder reconstruction, hip arthroscopy, major soft tissue reconstruction, osteotomy, trauma and on-call fracture cases.
Fellowship Highlights
- Rotate across U of T sites
- All fellows are registered with the Department of Surgery at U of T
- Fellowship staff rounds monthly combined with journal club
- Multicenter UTOSM Research Program (clinical and basic science)
- Fellowship teaching assignments (e.g. bioskills)
- Fellowship cadaver session with advanced procedures annually
Surgeons Participating in Fellowship
- Dr. Daniel B. Whelan (Program Director)
- Dr. John Theodoropoulos (Fellowship Director)
- Dr. Jihad Abouali
- Dr. Jas Chahal
- Dr. Tim Dwyer
- Dr. Tim Leroux
- Dr. Paul Marks
- Dr. Christian Veillette
- Dr. David Wasserstein
Length of Fellowship
The Fellowship Program is twelve months in duration commencing on August 1 and ending on July 31 of the following year.
Rotation Structure
There are six fellowship positions each consisting of three four-month rotations. The rotations are a mix of Upper and Lower Extremity cases, but can be more focused depending on requests and availability. The actual rotations will be assigned close to the commencement of the fellowship. Applicants are asked to indicate if they have any particular requests or interests.
Fellowship Duties
Patient Care
- Attend outpatient sports clinics and become competent and autonomous in the evaluation of upper and lower extremity sports-medicine related disorders.
- Assist in the pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative care of the supervisor’s patients.
- Assist in the evaluation of in-patient, outpatient and Emergency Department consults referred to the supervisor.
- Assist on the hospital ward and didactic teaching responsibilities of the Division of Orthopaedics at each hospital
- Work with other house staff attending to patients in the Emergency Department in a timely fashion .
- The above responsibilities will not interfere with the Orthopaedic Residency Training Program of the University of Toronto but will, rather, complement and reinforce the teaching of residents.
On-Call Responsibilities
- Fellows are anticipated to contribute towards general Orthopaedic trauma calls; call coverage will not be more than 1:4 (home call).
Didactic Rounds
- On the first Tuesday of every month, UTOSM hosts cross-city orthopaedic sports medicine rounds. Fellows will be asked to present 1-2 rounds over the course of the year. On the third Tuesday of every month, primary care sports medicine rounds are hosted by Dr. Doug Richards and are important to improve the fellow’s understanding of the management of non-operative management of sports medicine related disorders.
- Fellow’s rounds are conducted once every three months in a nearby venue as a dinner meeting. In this forum, Fellows present interesting cases which are discussed by faculty and fellows. The objective is to stimulate learning, create discussion, and facilitate camaraderie.
- Professor’s rounds are held monthly on the second Monday at 6pm. This will consist of a formal presentation by a designated fellow of a timely topic.
University Rounds
- Fellows are encouraged to make themselves available for many orthopaedic and city-wide educational opportunities offered through the University of Toronto.
Teaching
- Fellows participate in educational endeavours throughout the rotation. They are expected to participate in the teaching activities for medical students, residents and allied health professionals. In particular, fellows will be asked to be involved with OSCEs, teaching orthopaedic residents in the surgical skills lab, and going over didactic sessions using Orthopaedic Knowledge Update as a curriculum guide.
Research
- Research is a mandatory requirement of the fellowship. At least two published papers are considered the minimum expectation of our fellows, many fellows achieve far more than this. Fellows are also expected to present their research at a national or international orthopaedic meeting.
Fellowship day
- In June of each year there is a fellowship day held by the Division of Orthopaedics. Each fellow will be expected to present their research. A prize is awarded for the best paper.
- There will be a two day cadaver bio skills program. The day will be a resident teaching session with all fellows attending as supervisors. Following the departure of the residents, advanced procedures will be carried out by staff and fellows.
Fellowship Application
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