Course Number: ACSM 401-18

Course Title: Sports Medicine in Family Medicine – Greensboro AHEC

Faculty: Bert Fields, MD

Prerequisites: Completion of Third-Year Family Medicine Clerkship and intention to match in Family Medicine

Offered: Blocks 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11 (Availability depends on Selective ACSM 401-18)

Credit Hours: 6

Meeting Place: Greensboro AHEC/Family Practice Center

Learning Objectives: At end of course students will be able to:
• Perform advanced exam of major joints injured in sports activities.
• Give differential diagnosis of injuries to major joints.
• Perform common sports medicine procedures such as ETT, splinting and or casting; joint injection, and orthotic preparation
• Assess injured athletes at sporting event

Learning Activities: The course should appeal to any student interested in family medicine who is
contemplating pursuit of a sports medicine fellowship. The student follows the
schedule of 1 of our 3 sports medicine fellows. They participate in training room
evaluation, primary care sports medicine clinics, orthopedic office, student health
sports medicine clinic, weekly seminar and game coverage.