Anyone have input on Michigan sports and spine fellowship?

[Karying14]

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Hi there,
I heard there is a fellowship opening at Michigan sports and spine in Troy, Michigan. Anyone have any input or experience with the fellowship? I looked on the AAPMR fellowships website, and it is not listed on it.

http://www.michigansportsandspine.com/staff.php

 

[LordArius]

Jeff is a good guy. the fellowship is not new. its been there for a while. you will get to do a good amount of procedures. You also will do EMG's.

They do a fair amount of sports medicine-- cover local teams

 

[Fizdoc]

Bump this thread. Anybody have information on this fellowship?

 

[15MD]

Bump this thread. Anybody have information on this fellowship?

http://www.sportsmed.msu.edu/doc/PHYSIATRIC SPORTS MEDICINE SPINE and EMG TWO YEAR FELLOWSHIP.pdf

It is now a two year fellowship for PM&R applicants. The first year(non-accredited) you work as an attending doing EMG, spine clinic, IPR, SAR, call, etc and make $70,000. The second year you do a traditional accredited sports medicine fellowship.

 

[15MD]

Sorry, misread the title and added a "State" in there. The one that the original poster was talking about is an unaccredited one year spine fellowship under Dr. Jeff Pierce.

http://www.vianetjob.com/view.php?j...0192d0b83b3c5ed&ref=cf1b661dd6688229152e62964

http://www.michigansportsandspine.com/jeff-s-pierce-d-o

 

[bedrock]

Two year fellowship is BS. They aren't that special. Losing a year of attending salary isn't worth it.

 

[Fizdoc]

Bump this thread. Has anybody interviewed here or completed this fellowship?

 

[Bostonspine]

Two year fellowship is BS. They aren't that special. Losing a year of attending salary isn't worth it.

Agree remember the goal of a fellowship is to acquire a set of skills that allow you to add procedures(spine/pain), add a patient population(sports) or subtract a patient population(inpatient).
If you didn't do a pain fellowship no one cares about you fellowship title they want to see procedure log and call your references. if you can't do EMGs you program failed you and a MSK/spine practice won't give you breath in terms of cases( my guess CTS/ulnar and r/o radical all day long) to justify loosing a year.

The sports fellowship is there to entice you to be an indentured servant for a year. If you wanna do sports just do sports if you wanna do spine/pain do that.

Sounds like a great way to prey on the desire to be a complete MSK specialist and the fear of manning up to enter the match while making up for dwindling reimbursements.


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