Mission

Develop operationally ready sports medicine physician leaders, through excellence in patient care and scholarship, dedicated to heal Warrior Athletes. Anytime. Anywhere.

Vision

Enhance lifespan through movement. Everyone an Athlete!

Aims

• Transform physicians into inspired learners and well-rounded leaders
• Instill lifelong learning and self-improvement skills to all fellows we teach
• Teach principles of providing evidence based, comprehensive, trUSted care
• Foster a culture of safety, wellness, and inclusion

This program does not utilize traditional, short-term ‘rotations.’ Rather, fellows participate in a relatively constant weekly template of training at various locations, longitudinally, throughout the year. Therefore, there are several concurrent ‘rotations’ ongoing throughout the year. All sports medicine fellows share the same experience in the ambulatory sports medicine clinics, didactics, and scholarly activities curricula. Each fellow, however, has unique but comparable exposure to orthopedics and team physician responsibilities.

The fellowship is broken down into 6 Core Learning Activities:

1. Sports Medicine & Continuity Clinic
2. Orthopedic Clinic
3. Athletic Event Coverage
4. Didactics
5. Research/Scholarly Activity
6. Military and professional development

Our fellowship maintains the same block schedule for each fellow for the entire 12 months of fellowship. This builds maximal continuity relationships with sports teams, trainers, and team physicians. All tracks contain equivalent percentages of sports medicine, orthopedics, and family medicine experience and identical allotments of team coverage, research and didactic time.

This program does not utilize traditional, short-term “rotations.” Rather, fellows participate in a relatively constant weekly template of training at various locations throughout the year. Therefore, there are several concurrent “rotations” ongoing throughout the year.

Elective rotations have not been built into the curriculum as the year is a very intensive with a rigorous schedule. That being said, there have been fellows in the past that have travelled for three to seven days for elective experiences. Furthermore, we have a couple off site trainings that are built into our schedule (Three mass participation coverage events and travel to U.S. Air Force Academy for example).

Our fellows do not take call.

There is dedicated time carved out for military unique curriculum during the year, as well as individual lectures, and other learning events which address the topic throughout the year. Throughout training, fellows will be expected to show, and will receive feedback on, professionalism, military bearing, uniform standards, height/weight/physical fitness standards, and other relevant topics. Fellows are active duty officers during training and are held to the relevant mandatory training requirements of all Airmen.

Life-saving certification classes:

• Basic Life Support
• Advanced Life Support
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support

The goal of the military leadership and faculty development curriculum is to increase the fellow’s skills in educating learners and colleagues alike, obtain skills in emotional intelligence, metacognition, conflict management and negotiation. The fellow will acquire those skills necessary to teach in small groups, prepare and deliver lectures, and precept various levels of healthcare learners. This is accomplished by didactic instruction, virtual podcasts, and supervised participation in various teaching venues.

There are many opportunities to participate in research at our program. We generally send both fellows to our National conference (USAFP) and AMSSM where they will present, solely, or with a faculty. Several of our faculty are involved in primary research and/or author review articles, and many others mentor Family Physicians Inquiries Network projects. Fellows are commonly invited to participate and can find many unique lines of research covering a wide variety of topics, both in Sports and Family Medicine. Prior to graduation, fellows are required to: publish a FPIN GEM, as well as publish something else (in a peer reviewed media), OR present something (at one of the regional or national conference we attend).

Every fellow is expected to participate in a formal quality improvement project during the course of their training.

Sports Medicine Training Sites

1. David Grant Medical Center
2. Kaiser Napa Solano Orthopedic Clinic
3. Kaiser Napa Solano Primary Care Sports Medicine clinic
4. Justin Siena High School
5. American Canyon High School
6. Solano Community College
7. University of California Davis Training Room clinic
8. NorthBay Sports Medicine Orthopedic Clinic
9. University of California Davis Athletics
10. Kaiser Permanente; Oakland California

Training Rooms

1. University California Davis Training Rooms
2. Solano Community College Training Room
3. American Canyon High School  Training Room
4. Justin Siena High School Training Room

Our program has opportunities for interested individuals to ‘rotate’ in our program for a short time (one week) or combine their rotation with the Family Medicine residency for a longer, more comprehensive experience (two-four weeks).

Our interviews are set up directly by contacting the Program Director. All interviewees will be required to provide a copy of their CV and personal statement prior to the interview day. Interviewees are all asked the same questions to try and maintain consistency and enable access to the same discussion topics; the goal of the interviews is for the program to learn more about applicants and applicants to learn more about the program, so time for questions is preserved as part of the interview.

For those not able to rotate with the program: we support both virtual and single day in-person interviews so do not hesitate to reach out to schedule.

Sports Medicine Fellows take the American Board of Family Medicine or the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians sports medicine board exam. This exam is offered in July. To be eligible to take specialty board exams, graduates must complete all pre-requisites required by the ABFM and be on track for graduation within 3 months of the usual June 30th date for completing fellowship (our fellowship runs until July 31st, but fellows take board the first or second week of July).

Fellows will have numerous opportunities to teach peers/colleagues and junior learners throughout fellowship, both at Travis Air Force Base, and also in the community. This includes a full day teaching of the Vallejo Family Medicine Residents, precepting the Travis Family Medince residents, and teaching during weekly fracture rounds.

Currently faculty within the Fellowship have the following subspecialty training:

• Sports Medicine
• Ortho Sports Medicine
• Lifestyle Medicine
• Point-of-Care-Ultrasound
• Obstetrics
• Faculty Development

Our program values mentorship as this is critical for one’s professional development and career goals. Fellows are assigned an advisor who helps assist them throughout the year and will likely have multiple additional mentors. Faculty work hard to link fellows with staff physicians both in sports medicine and family medicine who may have similarities with them whether it is their medical career aspirations, military career goals, or gender/ethnic/religious and other background considerations.

We work hard at Travis to build a culture in which we care about each other, support each other, and respond to the education and wellness needs of each other. We commit to being fair, transparent, and truthful to maintain psychological safety in the program. We want to help fellows stay connected to the sense of purpose and values that are inherent in caring for patients and serving in the military. The faculty and leadership of the residency and department maintain open-door policies and are highly receptive to feedback on the culture and processes of the residency and fellowship. We have included four to five wellness days built into the curriculum.