The fellow will learn to treat common sports related illnesses and medical conditions that will be useful in their practice as a sports orthopaedic surgeon. The fellow will be provided the unique experience to observe and participate in the management and care of a Division I athletic team as well as to work within the athletic training room system, teaching the fellow to foster a trusting relationship between athletic training and physical therapy staff, and primary care sports medicine physicians. The fellow will learn sports medicine practice and athlete and coach interactions by working with athletic trainers in the UNM Athletic Department. Inpatient responsibilities will be to participate in the workup and care of inpatients with traumatic injuries involving fractures or dislocations during sporting events, or such traumatic injuries of sports medicine interest such as knee dislocations, injuries of the shoulder and ankle involving fracture dislocations. Outpatient surgery is done in a state-of-the-art University outpatient surgical center within walking distance from the main University Hospital. There is also an adolescent sports clinic at the Carrie Tingley Children's Hospital.
