Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship – Northeast
Geisinger’s Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship – Northeast places you as team physician for a high school or university on day one and allows you to shape your career path throughout our unique program.
About us
Whether we’re professional athletes or weekend warriors, our bodies are meant to move.
That’s why we created the Geisinger Northeast Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship in 2007 — to train primary care physicians who’ll have expertise in caring for active patients.
Our one-year, ACGME-accredited fellowship is centered in a region with an abundance of high schools, universities and opportunities to treat professional athletes, too.
As our sports medicine fellow, you’ll be guided by faculty dedicated to your success, but you’ll also enjoy autonomy from day one, when we’ll install you as head team physician for a local high school or university.
From there, you’ll work with your faculty mentors to shape a fellowship that meets your personal career goals.
Program overview
Your time as our sports medicine fellow will include intensive training, a wealth of hands-on experience and the chance to work autonomously from day one.
Along with serving as team physician for one of our affiliated high schools and universities and as assistant team physician for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, you’ll be immersed in a program that also includes:
- Rotations with nationally recognized sports medicine orthopaedic physicians
- Exercise physiology course
- Sports cardiology rotation
- Anatomy review and dissection course
- Ultrasound conference and lectures
- Continuity sports medicine clinic
- High school training room and events
- Pennsylvania professional boxing and mixed martial arts
- Mass participation events such as triathlons and cycling competitions
- Monthly journal club attended by staff physicians, invited orthopaedic surgeons and subspecialists
- Monthly fracture conference attended by staff physicians and orthopaedic surgeons
- Monthly MRI conference attended by staff physicians and musculoskeletal radiologist
- Orthopaedic cadaver skills lab with ultrasound
- Casting, splinting and orthotics workshops
Assigned rotations include orthopaedic sports medicine, radiology, MSK ultrasound, podiatry, cardiac rehab, physical therapy and elective. Blocks of time are set aside for anatomy dissection and review, exercise physiology, nutrition and Pennsylvania Special Olympics coverage.
We also offer an elective sports medicine rotation. Click here to apply. Fill out the PDF, print and mail the form to the address indicated. If you apply, you’ll need to get a temporary Pennsylvania Medical License.
We’re affiliated with the following teams and schools:
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins (AHL)
- Luzerne County Community College
- Keystone College
- King’s College
- Misericordia University.
- Penn State Scranton
- The University of Scranton
- Wilkes University
- Marywood University
- Dallas Area High School
- Hanover Area High School
- Lake Lehman High School.
- Nanticoke Area High School
- Northwest Area High School
- Wilkes-Barre Area School District
- Wyoming Valley West Area High School
- Western Wayne
- Scranton School District
- Scranton Prep
- Pocono Mountain School District
- Valley View High School
Frequently asked questions
Yes, we have a focused ultrasound curriculum that follows the guidelines recommended by the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) for sports medicine fellowships.
Every month our fellows participate in a system-wide ultrasound conference. Each monthly conference begins with didactic lectures and ends with hands-on ultrasound training with live and cadaveric models. Fellows work one on one with registered in musculoskeletal (RMSK) certified sports medicine faculty to review normal anatomy and also practice interventional procedures. Over the course of the year, each fellow can expect to log well over 200 diagnostic scans and ultrasound-guided procedures.
Our home: Northeastern Pennsylvania
Our sports medicine fellowship — open to physicians who specialize in family medicine, internal medicine, internal medicine/pediatrics, emergency medicine, pediatrics and physical medicine/rehabilitation — is unique because it’s orthopaedic-based. You’ll gain extensive hands-on experience in musculoskeletal medicine, fracture care, MSK ultrasound and orthobiologic and PRP procedures.
Our focused ultrasound curriculum follows guidelines recommended by the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. Each month, you’ll participate in a systemwide ultrasound conference that starts with didactics and ends with hands-on ultrasound training with live patients and cadavers. You’ll work one-on-one with certified sports medicine faculty to review normal anatomy and to practice interventional procedures. Over the course of your fellowship, you can expect to log well over 200 diagnostic scans and ultrasound guided procedures.
Along with serving as a team physician yourself, you’ll work with sports medicine clinicians who serve as team physicians for local colleges and professional teams such as the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, Wilkes University, Misericordia University and The University of Scranton. Our sports medicine fellows provide medical coverage for events ranging from minor league hockey, professional boxing and mixed martial arts to the Pennsylvania Special Olympics, providing you with a breadth of experience.
About Geisinger
Geisinger serves more than 1 million people in central and northeast Pennsylvania. We’ve been nationally recognized for innovative practices in quality, delivery models such as ProvenCare® and the use of an award-winning electronic medical record, Epic®. Our physician-led system has about 24,000 employees, including nearly 1,700 physicians, 10 hospital campuses, two research centers and a health plan with more than half a million members, all of which boost our hometown economies by $7.1 billion annually.