Fellowship Training
Spine and Sports Medicine Fellowship
Duration: 1 year (August 1 - July 31)
Stipend: $53,608 per annum/benefits
Location: Hospital for Special Surgery
Eligibility and Conditions
The program, designed for two fellows each year, is flexible to allow for individual interests and needs. The fellowship focuses on a comprehensive, non-surgical approach to conditions and diseases that affect the musculoskeletal system.
Each fellow will be required to integrate the history, physical examination, and radiographic findings into a comprehensive non-surgical approach to the patient. Our fellows build skills and knowledge of the indications and techniques to perform a wide array of interventional procedures, including lumbar steroid epidurals, facet injections, selective nerve root injections (SNRI), RadioFrequency (RF) Lesioning, lumbar discography, lumber IDET, and lumbar Nucleoplasty.
Fellows will also receive state-of-the-art training and experience in electrodiagnostics, the evaluation and treatment of orthopedic sports injuries, and research. This unique fellowship also offers significant training in high-level spinal procedures, such as the fluoroscopically guided transcutaneous procedure, using the latest technologies in fluoroscopy and RF/IDET generation directly in the OR.
In the course of fellowship training, there will be formal rotations with spine/musculoskeletal radiologists, spine surgeons, and sports orthopedists. A weekly fellowship lecture series, combined with the attendings and fellow in sports medicine, is also part of the curriculum, as are weekly sports conferences and clinics. Also unique to the fellowship is the opportunity to work with professional sports teams including the New York Mets and the New York Giants. At least one academic project is required during the fellowship.
All of our physicians are fellowship-trained interventional physiatrists and we perform our procedures in the operating room of our hospital. As the emphasis of the program is to develop future leaders in interventional physiatry, each treatment involving the fellows will involve all facets of physiatric medicine and reflect the department philosophy of aggressive diagnosis. The Physiatry Department will provide funds to attend a national conference within our area of study. This Fellowship is PASSOR accredited.
HSS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate with regard to sex, color, creed, religion, sexual preference or disability.
