Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship

The Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship is part of the SSM Health/Saint Louis University School of Medicine Residency Program.

Provides physician training in return-to-play and interventional procedures using the highest quality evidence-based medicine.
Fellows will learn the principles of public and community health and interprofessional care, and will be trained to address the psychosocial issues of families and communities. Emphasis will be made on the importance of healthy lifestyle, exercise and additional values of preventative medicine.

Core Rotations

Fellows will have at least four weekly clinics in primary care sports medicine and a continuity clinic. In addition, fellows will serve as one of the team physicians for several teams at the high school, college and professional levels.

Five separate orthopedics ambulatory specialty clinics (eight weeks)
Orthopedics: Sports medicine (longitudinal)
Primary care sports medicine clinic (longitudinal)
Rheumatology (eight weeks)
Primary care continuity clinic (longitudinal)
Physical therapy (16 to 20 weeks)
Musculoskeletal radiology (16 to 20 weeks)

Days of the Week	Morning	Afternoon	Evening

Monday	Athletics training room	PCSM clinic
Tuesday	Ortho specialty Clinic	Ortho specialty clinic
Wednesday	PCSM clinic	PCSM clinic
Thursday	Continuity clinic	Athletics training room
Friday	Ortho specialty clinic	Ortho specialty clinic	High school football
Saturday	College football	College football	College football
Sunday	Off	Off	Off

Event Coverages (Sideline/Athletic Training Room)

Colleges

Saint Louis University (NCAA Division I)
University of Missouri–St. Louis (NCAA Division II)
Fontbonne University (NCAA Division III)
University of Health Sciences (N.A.I.A.)
Harris-Stowe State University (N.A.I.A.)
Missouri Baptist University (N.A.I.A.)

Special Events

St. Louis Sabres Rugby
Greater St. Louis Marathon
Sun Run – Cardinal Glennon

High Schools

Affton High School
Bayless High School
Bellville East High School (IL)
Bellville West High School (IL)
Bishop DuBourg High School
Duchesne High School
Orchard Farm High School
Lutheran North High School
Lutheran South High School
Pattonville High School

Curriculum

Fellows will receive experience and exposure in on-field management and medical transportation of urgent and emergent sports medicine problems through sideline and mass participation events. In addition, fellows will receive season training in splinting, spine boarding, CPR, airway management and AED placement in conjunction with annual SSM SportsCare Outreach courses. A fellow will have additional responsibility in event-planning and the development of an emergency action plan in coordination with local EMS.

Basic sciences: Exercise physiology lab
American Medical Society of Sports Medicine sponsored musculoskeletal ultrasound use
Participation in gross anatomy with medical students

Faculty

Jamil Neme, M.D. (Primary care sports medicine physician)
Primary care sports medicine program director
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Team physician for the Saint Louis Billikens

William Mitchell, M.D. (Primary care sports medicine physician)
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Team physician for the Saint Louis Billikens

David Lee, M.D. (Primary care sports medicine physician)
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Team physician for the Saint Louis Billikens

Scott Kaar, M.D. (sports medicine orthopedic surgery)
Department of Orthopedics
Professor of orthopaedic surgery
Co-medical director, Regional SSM Health Musculoskeletal Clinical Program
Chief of orthopaedic sports medicine and shoulder surgery
Team physician for the Saint Louis Billikens

Ali Ashley, M.D. (sports medicine orthopedic surgery)
Department of Orthopedics
Assistant professor, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Team physician for the Saint Louis Billikens

Cody Bellard, M.D.
Orthopedic sports medicine
Team physician UMSL University
Team physician Missouri Baptist University