Interventional Spine & Sports Medicine Fellowship Program Education & Curriculum

• Exposure to acute, sub-acute and chronic musculoskeletal and spine pathology
• Assessment & Management of Spine and Neuromuscular Pain
• Opportunity to learn fluoroscopically-guided spinal injections under direct attending supervision at scheduled clinics
• Depending on the skill progress of each fellow, opportunity to do more complex procedures as appropriate:
  • Cervical, thoracic, lumbar epidural injections
  • Cervical, thoracic, lumbar selective nerve injections
  • Cervical, thoracic, lumbar facet joint injections
  • Cervical, thoracic, lumbar medial branch blocks
  • Sacroiliac joint injections
  • Intraarticular hip, knee, and shoulder injections
  • Facet procedures (including radiofrequency neurotomy)
  • Lumbar, thoracic and cervical discography and intradiscal therapeutic procedures
  • Tenotomies
  • Percutaneous Disc Decompression
  • Spinal cord stimulation
  • Vertiflex/Superion Indirect Decompression
  • Intracept Basivertabral Nerve Ablation
  • Botox injections
  • Vertebroplasy/Kyphoplasty
  • Arthrograms and Myelograms
  • Interpretation of MRI, CT and plain films
• Musculoskeletal ultrasound
• Opportunity to learn ultrasound guided injections under direct attending supervision at scheduled clinics
• Advanced electrodiagnostic skills
• Concussion Clinic
• Sports Team Coverage
  • Local High Schools and Colleges
  • Opportunity for an away elective
• Opportunity for conference time (i.e. spinal procedure didactic conference such as AAPM&R, NASS, SIS, etc.)
• Management of general musculoskeletal/pain disorders and pain conditions.
• Orthopaedic Urgent Care coverage

Each fellow is required to participate in:

• Outpatient clinics both independently and directly supervised by attending
• Procedure clinics directly supervised by attending
• Electrodiagnostic examinations both independently and directly supervised by an attending
• Concussion clinics
• Promptly return patient-related phone calls and correspondence
• Orthopaedic Urgent Care

Past and current fellows are encouraged to attend our Biennial OSS Health Fellowship Updates in Spine and Musculoskeletal Care conferences. Past meetings have been held in:

• San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Snowbird, Utah
• Tucson, Arizona
• Jekyll Island, Georgia

Future, current and past fellows share an invitation only group email communication for clinical discussions, employment opportunities and other resources. Our fellows become part of a lifetime networking.

• 5-10% of time for academics
• Adopt and work on a significant musculoskeletal research project
• Write a publishable chapter or article