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Auburn Sports Medicine Fellowship

Primary Care Sports Medicine is a dynamic and rapidly growing sub-specialty in the medical profession. The practice of sports medicine is applying the physician's knowledge, skills, and attitudes to those engaged in sport and exercise. Primary Care Sports Medicine specialists recognize the need for a unique skill set in providing care for athletic patients. Our program's goal is to provide the sports medicine fellow with the appropriate training to evaluate and optimize the athlete patient's performance while mitigating the effects of acute and chronic disease and injury on health and performance. This program is designed to meet all of the special requirements put forth for graduated medical education training programs in primary care sports medicine.

Those skills extend across a vast population of patients:

  • Pediatric athletes
  • High school athletes
  • University athletes
  • Professional athletes
  • Disabled athletes
  • Geriatric athletes
  • The general population of recreational community-based athletes who participate in sporting activities for health and fitness.

In our program, sports medicine fellows acquire general orthopedic and medical knowledge in addition to learning to apply osteopathic principles in the evaluation and treatment of athletic patients. Simultaneously, working with athletic trainers, orthopedic surgeons and other providers to create a holistic, comprehensive, and team approach to the management of the patient. An evidence-based approach is used to benefit the athlete patient and promote wellness and provide a supportive rehabilitative environment. Our fellows also have the opportunity to participate in a variety of clinical and biomedical research programs during their fellowship year and acquire clinical skills in the use of musculoskeletal ultrasound through participation in our designated curriculum.

Our program includes four positions at VCOM-Virginia and two positions at VCOM-Auburn. This allows us to train residents in two of the NCAA’s Power Five athletic conferences. We offer all fellows extraordinary training opportunities through this collaboration, including caring for elite Division-1 athletes at Virginia Tech, Auburn and Radford Universities and local high schools associated with our programs.

The sports medicine fellowship at VCOM will provide the educational experiences necessary for the sub-specialty fellow to achieve the cognitive knowledge, psychomotor skills, interpersonal skills, professional attitudes, and practical experience required of physicians specialized in the care of athletes. The clinical faculty will provide didactic learning and clinical opportunities as integral parts of the required curriculum for this program. The educational and clinical opportunities will be designed to allow the fellow to assume progressive responsibility for patient care. Fellows will be mentored and assisted in developing and completing their respective research projects over the course of the fellowship year.

Auburn Campus Sports Medicine Fellowship brochure (PDF)

Applying for Audition Rotations

To apply for the VCOM Sports Medicine Fellowship, please use the ERAS system.

For applying for VCOM Sports Medicine visiting audition rotations, please email Lakiesha Young Hicks lyounghicks@auburn.vcom.edu with the following information:

  • PLA from your facility to ours (Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine - Auburn Campus)
    (Program Director: Dr. Jos Edison - Auburn)
  • Certificate of Insurance (COI) and malpractice coverage
  • Current copy of your medical license
  • A brief explanation of your interest in rotating with us (minimum one paragraph)