The “Friday Morning Lecture Series” provides sports medicine fellows and faculty with an opportunity to meet monthly for intensive exploration of a topic in sports medicine.
Examples of topics include:
- Concussion
- Cardiology
- Fracture evaluation /management
- General medical conditions in the athlete
- Injuries/ inflammatory disease
Information is delivered in a round-robin fashion, with fellows and faculty assigned to provide a 15-20 minute presentation related to the session’s topic.
Examples of presentations for the cardiology series are:
- Focused Cardiac Examination/ECG Review
- HOCM/ARVD
- Atrial Fibrillation in Endurance Athletes/Commotio Cordis
- Anomalous Coronary Arteries/Long QT Syndrome
The session ends with Journal Club—each fellow presents a recent publication related to the month’s topic.
In addition to the Friday Morning Lecture Series, fellows have time blocked for ultrasound, radiology, exercise physiology, and anatomy didactics.
Ultrasound didactics:
- Recurring biweekly practice sessions
- First half of the year is dedicated to developing competence at diagnostic and interventional techniques
- Second half of the year is dedicated to demonstrating competence and refining technique
- Taught by fellowship faculty and local specialty attendings
Radiology didactics:
- Taught by fellowship faculty and local specialty attendings
- Joint and disease specific with case-based education
Exercise physiology didactics:
- Recurring monthly half-day sessions
- Integrates experiential learning opportunities
- Comprehensive curriculum
Anatomy didactics:
- Monthly half-day sessions
- Organized by the Maine Post-Graduate Anatomy Didactic Consortium at the University of New England
- Taught by Dr. Frank Willard, a phenomenal anatomist of national renown
Other didactic opportunities such as hospital Grand Rounds are available to fellows as well.