Goal: Evaluate and Manage Clinical Issues in Sports Medicine

Situated in the beautiful Lehigh Valley in Eastern Pennsylvania, St. Luke's Sports Medicine Fellowship is committed to recruiting outstanding primary care physicians to train in a unique and challenging interdisciplinary environment.

The overall goal of this training experience is to teach the primary care physician to evaluate and manage clinical issues in sports medicine. The fellow’s clinical activities allow for close mentoring and supervision, while providing the opportunity for a great deal of autonomy and independence. The goals of the fellowship are accomplished by providing care to a number of organized athletic programs. Several high school and college sports coverage opportunities are available. Special populations of athletic coverage will include the Special Olympics, the Lehigh Valley ½-Marathon, USA Boxing and the Allentown SportsFest Games.

Opportunity is also available to assist in the medical care of other sporting events such as the Pennsylvania Keystone Sports Games, the Philadelphia Triathlon and the United States Cycling Championships. Year-round weekly attendance in each of the assigned high school and college training rooms is required. Event coverage frequently occurs in the evenings and on weekends.

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Sports Medicine Fellowship - Application Process

We currently are accepting applications for two fellowship positions to begin in July, 2010. We trust that the following information will be helpful as you consider our program, and we wish you well during the application process.

Please complete the Application for Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship which is available from the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Web site at www.amssm.org and mail it to the following address:

Kevin Waninger, MD
Director, Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship
Department of Family Medicine
St. Luke's Hospital & Health Network
2830 Easton Avenue
Bethlehem, PA 18017-4206

Prerequisite requirements

Our program participates with the national matching program. You will need to contact the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) at www.nrmp.org for the Primary Care Sports Medicine Specialty Match Applicant Agreement. Candidates should be board-eligible or board-certified in a primary care specialty. We maintain our academic affiliation with the Family Medicine Residency Program at St. Luke's Hospital. The Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires that sports medicine fellowship programs provide their fellows with a continuity care experience within their primary care specialty. Our fellows will maintain their primary care skills by teaching and seeing patients in their primary care specialty.