Fellowships in ER
Started by deardr07
There are many different career paths you can take doing Sports Medicine through EM, but you have to create them or seek them out.
First off, I'd say that EM is a great background Sports Medicine especially for event coverage given our breadth of clinical knowledge. We do have a bit to learn in terms of the finer points of MSK, long term management and rehab. It is overall a fun population of patients to work with and most of them are happy with their care verses our typical EM patient which is such a nice change.
In terms of jobs you can find an academic setup that would salary you and let you do EM and SM, you could find two different private groups that would also let you do both- some hospitals have sports medicine clinics that you may be able to spend time in. You could set up your own clinic though that takes time to build your patient volume. Many large primary care practices are looking for sports med so that the money can be kept inside the group verses referral to ortho- pts only get referred to ortho if they need surgery, or more specialized care. You can also join an multi-specialty ortho group and see the non-op/sports stuff. You could do EM and then have event coverage gigs on the side(mass events or professional teams or college, high school etc).....its really what you make of it.
Again, these jobs are not just handed to you on a platter, you have to create them, but it is possible and there are people out there who do it. PM&R, FP, IM, Peds have an easier transition because they have a clinic anyways and they can see their primary specialty along with sports and slowly build their sports volume up. I think EM's presence in Sports Medicine will continue to grow because we are so well trained and have a large skill set. We also tend to be a group that stereotypically enjoys outdoors, adventure type stuff.
The major drawback is that you will make more money doing plain EM than sports. I think combining the two is great because your fit ironman competitors cancels out the painful 22yo disabled drug seekers. Your salary will most likely still take a little hit depeding on how much you do of both. Thats when you take into account what important to you, quality of life etc.
As a medical student you should pick the primary specialty that interests you most because that is your base. Through residency you can focus on building your MSK/sports knowledge base through electives and such, gain some experience with sports coverage. Fellowship will help round out the rest.
Hope that helps.
First off, I'd say that EM is a great background Sports Medicine especially for event coverage given our breadth of clinical knowledge. We do have a bit to learn in terms of the finer points of MSK, long term management and rehab. It is overall a fun population of patients to work with and most of them are happy with their care verses our typical EM patient which is such a nice change.
In terms of jobs you can find an academic setup that would salary you and let you do EM and SM, you could find two different private groups that would also let you do both- some hospitals have sports medicine clinics that you may be able to spend time in. You could set up your own clinic though that takes time to build your patient volume. Many large primary care practices are looking for sports med so that the money can be kept inside the group verses referral to ortho- pts only get referred to ortho if they need surgery, or more specialized care. You can also join an multi-specialty ortho group and see the non-op/sports stuff. You could do EM and then have event coverage gigs on the side(mass events or professional teams or college, high school etc).....its really what you make of it.
Again, these jobs are not just handed to you on a platter, you have to create them, but it is possible and there are people out there who do it. PM&R, FP, IM, Peds have an easier transition because they have a clinic anyways and they can see their primary specialty along with sports and slowly build their sports volume up. I think EM's presence in Sports Medicine will continue to grow because we are so well trained and have a large skill set. We also tend to be a group that stereotypically enjoys outdoors, adventure type stuff.
The major drawback is that you will make more money doing plain EM than sports. I think combining the two is great because your fit ironman competitors cancels out the painful 22yo disabled drug seekers. Your salary will most likely still take a little hit depeding on how much you do of both. Thats when you take into account what important to you, quality of life etc.
As a medical student you should pick the primary specialty that interests you most because that is your base. Through residency you can focus on building your MSK/sports knowledge base through electives and such, gain some experience with sports coverage. Fellowship will help round out the rest.
Hope that helps.
