- Foot Surgery
- Fracture Care
- General Orthopaedics
- Hand Surgery
- Joint Replacement
- Pediatric Orthopaedics
- Physical Medicine
- Spine Care
- Sports Medicine
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OUR PHYSICIANS:
- Kirk D. Clifford, MD
- Mary Beth Deering, MD
- Michael P. Dohm, MD
- Michael Dolecki, MD
- David P. Fisher, MD
- Robert L. Frazho, MD
- James S. Gebhard, MD
- Steven J. Heil, MD
- Michael J. Huang, MD
- Waqqar Khan-Farooqi, MD
- Mark G. Luker, MD
- Jeffrey M. Nakano, MD
- Richard J. Price, MD
- Michael T. Reeder, DO
- Michael D. Rooks, MD
- James K. Weaver, MD
- Thea A. Wojtkowski, MD
Family Medicine Residency offers Sports Medicine Fellowship
St. Mary's Hospital Pulse, July 2011
Fellowship faculty members Michael Reeder, DO, Richard Price, MD, and Lance Reynoso, MD
For a complete description
of the program, application
instructions, go to:
www.stmarygj.org/primary-care-sports-medicine-fellowship
Sports medicine fellowship faculty
Michael Huang, MD
Mark Luker, MD
Richard Price, MD, CAQ
Michael Reeder, DO, CAQ
Lance Reynoso, MD
John Whiteside, MD
Since 1977 St. Mary's Family Medicine Residency Program has prepared physicians for the special challenges of providing primary care in small towns and rural areas. This summer St. Mary's graduate education offerings will expand with the launch of its Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship program.
The fellowship, a joint venture between St. Mary's and Rocky Mountain Orthopaedic Associates (RMOA), received Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education certification in January 2011. The first fellow starts the one-year program in August and upon graduation will be prepared to take the Sports Medicine Certificate of Added Qualifications (CAQ) examination offered by the American Board of Family Medicine.
Musculoskeletal injuries, including sports injuries, fractures, dislocations, and overuse conditions, are common complaints in a family practice, says Richard Price, MD, CAQ, co-director of the fellowship. A family physician with fellowship training in sports medicine, Price provides non-surgical orthopedic treatment at RMOA and is a residency faculty member. "Without local orthopedic surgeons, family doctors evaluate those injuries themselves," Price says.
Small town family doctors are often team physicians to local high schools, Price adds. The fellowship participant will assist at sports injury clinics for local student athletes, cover games for an area high school football team, and work with Mesa State College athletes.
"The fellow will work with the physical therapists and athletic trainers at
St. Mary's Life Center and see their orders in action," says Michael Reeder, DO, CAQ, of RMOA and fellowship co-director.
The fellow's time will be divided among patient care at RMOA's sports medicine clinic and St. Mary's Family Medicine Clinic, testing, researching, and working with residents.
The fellow will work with the Monfort Human Performance Lab at Mesa State College where he or she will have the opportunity to become involved in ongoing research with its nationally recognized staff, Price says.
The program will prepare the fellow as an educator of coaches, athletes, parents, and other physicians. "We'll gain another faculty member, improving the residents' education in orthopedics and sports medicine," says Lance Reynoso, MD, faculty member for the residency and fellowship.