JPS offers the following Family Medicine fellowships:

Sports Medicine Fellowship
Program/Curriculum Overview
The JPS fellowship in primary care sports medicine is designed to produce primary care physicians that are trained in the diagnosis and care of patients who exercise and those who should exercise. Residents do an additional year of training designed to give experience and competence in the broad field of non-operative orthopedics and musculoskeletal medicine. Residents are given a broad experience of sports coverage and return-to-play issues from the high school to the professional level. We have a dedicated orthopedic and sports medicine center with on-site imaging (such as musculoskeletal ultrasound, C arm and X-ray) as well as physical therapy. The faculty includes sports CAQed primary care physicians as well as specialists in general, sports, pediatric, total joint and hand orthopedic surgery. Curriculum includes various peripheral nerve blocks with C arm guidance as well as fracture follow-up care. A unique feature of this fellowship is that some of our fourth year graduates are eligible to apply for, and when accepted, add an additional fifth year of training that leads to an American Board of Medical Specialties certified board in pain medicine through our affiliation with the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas.

Sports fellows rotate with several private orthopedic surgeons, both general and specialists-hand, foot and ankle, spine, sports medicine. They provide game and event coverage for Texas Wesleyan University, TCU, SMU, Fort Worth Cats, several Fort Worth ISD and Arlington ISD schools, as well as Kennedale ISD. ISD coverage consists of weekly training room rounds where each fellow functions as a true team physician, making diagnosis and treatment plans, and return to play decisions. Fellows also cover the Golden Gloves and other boxing leagues, as well some rodeo event coverage for the PRCA and PBR. In August of each year, program members travel to Wichita Falls for a mass participation bike ride, the Hotter than Hell Hundred, where they provide health coverage for the event. Fellows also have the opportunity to present lectures as various venues-sports medicine conferences, societies, and to other residents/fellows. They are also involved in several areas of research with different institutions.

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Sports Medicine Fellows

Pain Medicine Fellowship
Program Overview
The PM&R Pain Medicine Fellowship at JPS was as approved by the ACGME for commencement on July 1, 2007. The fellowship is affiliated with UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. The prerequisites for the program are a primary board eligibility or certification in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, or physical medicine and rehabilitation. The program is unique in its emphasis on all types of musculoskeletal pain disorders as well as diagnostic and therapeutic interventional techniques. The strongest candidates will have completed the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at JPS prior to entry into the pain medicine fellowship. The curricular program includes management for both nocioceptive and neuropathic pain disorders, oncology pain management, alternative and adjunctive treatment modalities, team based therapeutic interventions, controlled substance management, and diagnostic and therapeutic techniques.

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Pain Medicine Fellows

Geriatrics
The John Peter Smith Hospital Geriatric Fellowship is a unique opportunity for residents interested in geriatrics who have completed either a Family Medicine or Internal Medicine Residency. The fellowship has a long history of training geriatric fellows for work in a wide variety of geriatric fields. Its alumni currently serve in academic and clinical medicine in a variety of locations.

The fellows train under current national leaders in geriatric medicine in a multitude of sites enabling the fellow to care for the full spectrum of geriatric patients. Geriatric Assessments are performed at John Peter Smith Hospital with an underserved population as well as at the Geriatric Assessment Program at the University of North Texas with a more affluent population. Longitudinal rotations allow the fellow to follow outpatients, nursing home patients, hospice patients and homebound patients. Outpatient rotations which emphasize cognitive disorders include Geriatric Psychiatry, Neuropsychology, and the Memory Clinic. A Neurology rotation provides experience with other neurological complaints. A Skilled Nursing Unit enables the fellows to participate in team meetings to learn administrative skills as well as see complicated elderly patients on this skilled floor. Extensive inpatient experiences are provided with a Geriatric inpatient service at John Peter Smith Hospital, and an Inpatient Physical Therapy experience is provided with the Southwestern Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation program. Practical experiences with Speech Pathologists and Wound Care Specialists enable the fellow to be better prepared for caring for the elderly in the long term setting. End of life care is also emphasized in Inpatient Hospice as well as Nursing Home and Home Hospice.

Formal lectures are given each week which cover a variety of Geriatric subjects. Additionally, Journal Club, Case Conferences and Board Review are offered each month.

The fellowship offers the opportunity for research in an established research program. Quality Improvement projects are also completed during the fellowship which enhances the fellow's administrative skills.

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Residents