Self Regional Healthcare Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship aims to give attending physicians a broad spectrum of sports and activity related medical skills and knowledge sets. As it is the mandate of the associated residency to prepare physicians for the rural and small town setting, the fellowship acknowledges the need to prepare primary care sports medicine physicians the appropriate skills to use in all settings extending from the Friday night fall football game to the scuba diver returning from travel with latent decompression sickness. Faculty coverage is broad and offers an abundance of expertise. The program is accredited by the ACGME and the ABFP.
The Program Director has been certified in Sports Medicine since certification started in 1993. The Associated Director certified in 1994 and directed the fellowship at the University of South Carolina as well as being the team physician there for nine years. Both physicians also have extensive private practice experience and significant research accomplishments as well. The primary faculty will be present in the sports medicine clinic and at most but not all training room settings. At least one faculty will be available by pager or phone at all times.
Our Sports Medicine Experience…….
In addition the fellowship has educators from Orthopedic Surgery, Clinical Pathology, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Clinical Imaging, Exercise Physiology/Sports Nutrition, Physical Therapy, Pharmacology, Cardiology, Coaching/Athletic Training, Family Medicine, Dive Medicine, and Procedures/Injections. Their responsibilities include but are not limited to the following: consultation, direct teacher to the fellow, supervision of procedures and research, and lecturing on topics such as NSAIDs, NCV/EMGs and issues relating to the relationship with team physician.
The educational impact the fellowship offers will be executed in a variety of sports medicine care settings…….
The setting for the fellowship training will primarily be in an ambulatory care Sports Medicine Center 55% of the time. This clinic currently sees approximately 7-15 patients in the half day and runs 6-7 half days per week. In addition, on-site sports care comprises 30 % of the time, and the remaining 15 % will be spent in the following settings: acute hospital in-patient care, mass participation events sports care, private ambulatory family medicine clinic, research, didactic conferences, and dive medicine training and certification. Our fellowship currently has nine locations providing institutional support. These locations include Self Regional Healthcare, Optimum Life Center, The Sports Medicine Center at Self Regional Healthcare, MCFM, Lander University Athletics Training Room, Lakelands Orthopaedic Clinic, Erskine College Training Room, McCormick High School football field and training room, Calhoun Falls High School football field and training room, Dixie High school football field and training room, and the Self Regional Healthcare Imaging Center. In addition, the fellow will continue his/her family medicine practice one half day per week with faculty precepting as well.At these locations the fellow will be responsible for clinical decisions which will include but not be limited to injections, casting, laceration repair, taping and strapping, making of orthotics, physicial therapy, x-rays, athletic injuries, and chronic pain.
Additional and unique experiences of the fellowship are:
Candidate Qualifications Click here
Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Curriculum Click here
2010-2011 Sports Medicine Fellow, Tara Frerks, MD
It is a privilege to be accepted as the 2010-2011 Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellow. If you would have told me, even two years ago, that I was going to be training in South Carolina as a pure Midwesterner, I would not have believed it. I grew up in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota, received my undergraduate degree from Bethel University in St. Paul while also having the opportunity to play college volleyball and basketball, attended the University of Minnesota Medical School at Duluth and Minneapolis and moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin for residency training at La Crosse Mayo Family Medicine Residency Program. My husband Brian and I love to play team sports, especially volleyball and we enjoy almost anything outdoors, including snow sports, which we probably won't see much of while in the South. We also love to travel and spend time with our families. My professional interests include musculoskeletal medicine, obstetrics, adolescent medicine and international travel medicine combined with medical missions trips.
2008-2009 Sports Medicine Fellow, Dan Divilbiss, MD
Hi, I am Dan Divilbiss. My hometown is Salina, Kansas. I’m a graduate of Kansas State University and the University of Kansas School of Medicine. My professional interests include musculoskeletal medicine, cardiovascular anomalies in athletes and general family medicine. I enjoy following college and professional athletics, particularly Kansas State University and the Kansas City Royals. “I enjoy the broad scope and intensity of sports medicine experience I get at Greenwood as well as the opportunity to teach in an excellent residency setting….” My wife, Carey, and I enjoy traveling and spending time with our young son.
