Sports Medicine Fellowship
Under the leadership of Dr. Tom Howard, Fellowship Director, the program
offers a competitive fellowship experience in Sports Medicine. The program
draws on experiences with local orthopedists, local professional, college and
high school sports teams, and academic work with the medical school of Uniformed
Services University to provide intensive training in musculoskeletal medicine.
The program accepts 2 fellows per year for a 1 year training program. The
curriculum includes 2 half days of sports clinic under the supervision of a
fellowship trained attending and one half day of continuity clinic. Fellows
spend 2 days with several local orthopedic groups for both an outpatient and
operative experience. This includes general orthopedics and fracture management
and orthopedic sports medicine, spine, foot and ankle, hand and upper extremity,
physiatry and orthopedic oncology. For academics and research the fellowship
enjoys an ongoing relationship with a well established military sports Fellowship
at the Uniformed Services Medical School at Bethesda, Maryland. Fellows
participate in an intensive didactic program with 2 hours of lecture, orthopedic
grand rounds, faculty development and work with the Human Performance Lab on a
weekly basis. Additional experiences include training and ongoing experience with
Musculoskeletal Ultrasound for diagnostics and guided injections, Platelet Rich
Plasma (PRP) Therapy for tendinopathies, Exercise Stress Testing and Orthopedic
Tumor Clinic.
The fellows are very active with team and event coverage at various levels.
Each fellow will function as a high school team physician as well coverage of
Marymount or George Mason Universities. The fellows are also be involved with
training room coverage for the DC United and Washington Redskins and a baseball
experience covering the Washington National’s Spring Training. Finally, the
fellowship covers the DC Divas Woman’s Football Team.
The fellows are additionally actively involved in the planning and execution of
coverage for the Marine Corps Marathon, Army 10-Miler, Reston Triathlon and
severe Special Olympics events.
For more information contact Dr. Tom Howard at
thoward@ffpcs.com.