Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship

Fellows in our program will understand the benefit of the NFL (Buffalo Bills) and NHL (Buffalo Sabres) as well as collegiate sideline and training-room experience our curriculum provides; you’ll feel confident treating professional and collegiate athletes and handling the most challenging cases and injuries. The team physician experience spans the entire season as fellows will learn pre-participation physical exams, training camp, in-season game/athletic training room coverage, post-season physicals, and NFL combine.  Fellows learn the subtleties of caring for athletes at all levels of competition.  

Our program is structured to give you extensive clinical and operative experience while helping you develop your skills in literature review. Fellows can also tailor part of their fellowship experience based on their required post-fellowship needs by gaining additional exposure to other sub-specialties of orthopaedics with UB Ortho faculty. Additionally, we know the importance of research and staying current in the field, enabling you to undertake research during your time in our fellowship. Our program is structured to give you clinical and operative experience while helping you develop your skills in literature review. Additionally, we know the importance of research and staying current in the field, so we enable you to undertake research during your time in our fellowship.

Our program enables you to treat athletes in a variety of settings. Whether you’re administering care at sports venues such as hockey rinks and football fields, performing surgical procedures in ambulatory centers and hospitals or seeing patients in the private office environment, you’ll always be gaining experience that’s indispensable to your career.

We enable you to train in health care facilities throughout the greater Buffalo area, and we ensure you’re ready to provide competent treatment for the full spectrum of sports-related conditions.

As a fellow in our program, you will be able to attend multiple meetings and hands-on courses that help you build critical evaluation/operative skills and learn information that’s invaluable to developing your expertise in sports medicine.

Our trainees say our fellow lectures, surgical indications conferences, and journal clubs are thought-provoking gatherings that expand their knowledge and complement their hands-on training.

We’ll expose you to national and international distinguished sports medicine expert speakers and lectures that will expand your thinking and introduce you to developing ideas and key concepts about orthopaedic sports medicine care.

Our faculty members are known nationwide for their expertise in shoulder, elbow, hip, knee, and ankle arthroscopy. In our program, they’re known for the collegial, effective guidance they provide. The achievements our current fellows attain during training and the fulfillment they experience throughout their careers speak to the high-quality mentoring environment our faculty creates.

Moreover, former trainees in our program report that our program’s mentoring has made a difference in their careers with life-long relationships and friendships.

We understand: A healthy work-life balance is critical to your well-being. In our program, you don’t have to compromise your personal life to be successful. Our goal is to make this your best year of training. There is no call, ER or hospital rounding as part of the fellowship. Other than game coverage, fellows have their evenings free to spend time with their families and enjoy all the Buffalo has to offer.  

A large percentage of physicians plan to have a child in their residency or fellowship years. That’s why we fully support  family leave for any fellow welcoming a new family member through birth, fostering, or adoption. We also support medical leave if you need to care for a family member with a qualifying serious health condition.

Our flexible family leave policy can help you reduce stress and increase your autonomy in making decisions affecting you and your loved ones.