Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship (Hershey, Pa.)

The Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship participates with the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) and follows all application, interviewing and match list deadlines specified by the NRMP.

Requirements

• Completed application (via ERAS)
• Three original letters of support from physicians who have supervised the applicant in a clinical setting (via ERAS); one letter of support must be from a sports medicine physician

Application Requirements

This fellowship position is open to board-eligible or board-certified candidates in Family and Community Medicine and is fully accredited by the ACGME.

All applicants must have completed or must be in the process of completing an ACGME-accredited family medicine residency and must be certified by the American Board of Family Medicine or scheduled to take the board certification prior to the start of their fellowship. Interested applicants should have a significant commitment to an academic career in primary care sports medicine.

The fellow will be appointed at the appropriate postgraduate level consistent with previous experience and training and will receive a stipend and benefits consistent with the level of appointment.

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Penn State Health

Penn State Health is an integrated academic health system serving patients and communities across 15 counties in central Pennsylvania. It employs more than 20,900 people systemwide.

The system includes Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Health Children’s Hospital and Penn State Cancer Institute based in Hershey, Pa.; Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center in Enola, Pa.; Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center in Camp Hill, Pa.; Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center in Lancaster, Pa.; Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center in Reading, Pa.; Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, a specialty provider of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services, in Harrisburg, Pa.; and 2,417 physicians and direct care providers at 225 outpatient practices. Additionally, the system jointly operates various healthcare providers, including Penn State Health Rehabilitation Hospital, Hershey Outpatient Surgery Center and Hershey Endoscopy Center.

In 2017, Penn State Health partnered with Highmark Health to facilitate creation of a value-based, community care network in the region.

Penn State Health shares an integrated strategic plan and operations with Penn State College of Medicine, the University’s medical school. With campuses in State College and Hershey, Pa., the College of Medicine boasts a portfolio of more than $150 million in funded research and more than 1,700 students and trainees in medicine, nursing, other health professions and biomedical research.

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Penn State Health Children’s Hospital (left), Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (center) and Penn State Cancer Institute (right)

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

500 University Dr., Hershey, Pa., 17033 (Derry Township, Dauphin County)

• The health system’s 611-bed flagship teaching and research hospital
• The only medical facility in Pennsylvania accredited as both an adult and a pediatric Level I (highest-level) trauma center
• Dedicated surgical, neuroscience, cardiovascular, trauma and medical intensive care units
• Accredited Life Lion critical-care transport providing more than 1,100 helicopter and approximately 750 ground ambulance transports per year
• More than 1,300 faculty members and more than 650 residents and fellows
• Approximately 29,000 admissions, 73,000 emergency department visits, 1.1 million outpatient visits and 33,000 surgical procedures annually
• Designated as a Magnet hospital since 2007

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Penn State Health Children’s Hospital

600 University Dr., Hershey, Pa. 17033 (Derry Township, Dauphin County)

• An eight-story, 263,000-square-foot-facility built in 2013 and expanded in 2020
• 160 licensed pediatric beds, 26-bed pediatric intensive care unit and a 56-bed neonatal intensive care unit
• Level IV (highest-level) neonatal intensive care unit
• Level I quaternary (highest-level) pediatric intensive care unit
• Level I (highest-level) pediatric trauma center designation
• Intermediate care unit
• Dedicated pediatric operating rooms
• More than 150,000 pediatric outpatient visits, 20,000 pediatric emergency room visits, and approximately 5,000 pediatric patient discharges annually

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Welcome to Hershey

More About Hershey

Interested in learning more about living and working in Hershey, Pa.? See details here:

• Benefit and stipend information
• Virtual tour
• GME policies
• Wellness resources
• More about Penn State Health and its locations
• Application and visa requirements

Wellness, including emotional, spiritual, social and physical health, is a crucial component to training and to becoming a professional, compassionate and resilient physician. Self-care is a skill which must be continually practiced and reinforced. Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health are committed to addressing wellness among residents and fellows, with multiple resources readily available.

Institutional resources

• Visit BeWell – a health program designed to support Penn State Health employees
• See Penn State College of Medicine wellness resources here
• Employee Health Care Concierge and Case Management Service
• Partners in Medicine
  Moving to a new city with your family does not have to be stressful. Residency programs have assisted many significant others with finding employment. There is also a GME-Wide Partners in Medicine (PIM) group that offers networking opportunities as well as various social and community oriented activities.
• The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine
• Active and easily accessed Office of Professional Mental Health

Graduate medical education resources

• See resident and fellow wellness resources here

Institutional Resources

Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine celebrate, embrace and support the diversity of all patients, faculty, staff, students and trainees.

Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

In keeping with this, Penn State Health has an active Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with various programs, networks and resource groups, including:

• Talks and lectures on diversity, equity and inclusion through the Inclusion Academy
• Regular events on topics such as eradicating racism and creating a culture of inclusiveness
• Many Business Employee Resource Groups (BERGs), including:
  • Disability Business Employee Resource Group
  • Interfaith Business Employee Resource Group
  • LGBTQ+ Business Employee Resource Group
  • Military and Veterans Business Employee Resource Group
  • Multicultural Business Employee Resource Group
  • NextGen Business Employee Resource Group
• Black Physician Professional Staff Association – Resource Group
• Hispanic Professional Association
• Asian Physician and Professional Staff Association
• International Workforce Inclusion
• Inclusion Academy

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Office for Culturally Responsive Health Care Education

The vision at Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health is to equip learners with the knowledge, skills and attitudes they will need to provide culturally excellent health care and research for an increasingly diverse U.S. population. The Office for Culturally Responsive Health Care Education was formed to help meet that goal.

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Office for a Respectful Learning Environment

In addition, the institution does not tolerate discrimination, biases, microaggression, harassment or learner mistreatment of any kind, and any concerns are immediately addressed by the Office for a Respectful Learning Environment.

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Network of Under-represented Residents and Fellows
The Network of Under-represented Residents and Fellows (NURF) is a group of diverse residents and fellows representing all specialties. NURF’s goal is to promote cultural diversity in the residency programs through community involvement, mentorship with diverse faculty, professional networking and support for the recruitment of diverse medical students into the residency programs.

NURF is sponsored by the Penn State College of Medicine Graduate Medical Education Office and the Penn State Health Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

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Mailing Address

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Mail Code EC089
500 University Dr.
Hershey, PA 17033

General Contact Information

Phone: 717-531-0003, ext. 289165

Email: asmith46@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

Fax: 717-531-0498

Sports Medicine Clinical Experiences

• Sports medicine – Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center – Sports Medicine clinic (primary care sports medicine faculty clinic two half-days per week, fellow clinic one half-day per week, orthopaedic sports medicine clinic one half-day per week)
• Athletic Training Clinic (two sessions per week)
• Hershey Bears hockey club (seasonal)
• Harrisburg Senators baseball (seasonal)
• Penn State Harrisburg (NCAA Division III)
• Lebanon Valley College (NCAA Division III)
• High school team physician responsibilities at one of several contracted high schools (Annville-Cleona High School, Central Dauphin, Central Dauphin East, Elizabethtown High School, Hershey High School, Lampeter Strasburg, Lebanon High School, Mechanicsburg High School, Middletown High School, Milton Hershey School, Northern Lebanon High School)
• Hershey Entertainment and Resort Co. (seasonal; modern dancers and other performing artists)
• Pediatric sports medicine and fracture care (one half-day per week, two months)
• Penn State concussion clinic (one half-day per week, two months)
• Penn State physical therapy services (two half-days per month)
• Penn State cardiac rehabilitation (one half-day per month)
• Musculoskeletal radiology training (two half-days per month)
• Additional specialty rotations with experienced faculty (one half-day per week for six months split between hand clinic, shoulder/elbow clinic, trauma clinic and foot/ankle clinic)
• Elective opportunities in areas of special interest

Family and Community Medicine Clinical Experiences

• Continuity in family medicine clinic (one half-day per week)
• Family medicine resident precepting (one half-day per month)

Sports Medicine Experiences

• Adaptive Sports
• Dance medicine at Hershey Entertainment and Resort Co.
• Joint experiences with the Penn State Health primary care sports medicine fellow in State College, Pa.
• Musculoskeletal anatomy course
• Procedural experiences in musculoskeletal ultrasound, running gait analysis, cardiac stress testing, and osteopathic manipulation
• Wilderness medicine experiences and curricula

Medical Coverage of Annual Special Events

• Mass competition events: Marine Corps Marathon
• District 3 championship events, including cross country, wrestling and track and field
• Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) state championship events including cross country, wrestling and track and field.
• First Frontier Rodeo
• Hershey Youth Soccer Cup (Memorial Day Challenge, Summer Classic and The Hershey Cup tournaments)
• Special Olympics

Research in the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship includes the following:

• Weekly small-group didactic sessions with sports medicine faculty
• Sports medicine conference series in both primary care sports medicine and orthopaedic sports medicine

Currently, there are multiple core and current faculty who are principle investigators or co-investigators in National Institutes of Health or Department of Defense funded research.

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is a leader in medical education and research. The fellow will have access to Penn State University’s vast educational and research resources. Fellows will be expected to be involved in a research project during their fellowship year and encouraged to present at a regional or national sports medicine meeting. A scholarly project of some type such as a clinical review, case report, quality improvement project, or original research is encouraged. The fellow will be provided with one half-day per week to pursue scholarly work.

The fellow will be provided with a membership to the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) and will be given support to attend both the AMSSM Annual Meeting and the Fellows Research and Leadership Conference during his/her fellowship year.

Assigned teaching opportunities will take place with residents, medical students, community physicians and students of allied health professions.