Training Facilities

Fellows will evaluate and treat patients in a private office setting. The practice uses easy-to-navigate EMR and PACS systems. Fellows will also be provided with a laptop equipped with these applications for secured use outside of the office. The office setting will allow fellows to learn about templating an office day of patients and billing practices. A structured lecture series provided by the attending staff on the Business of Orthopaedic Medicine (BOOM) is offered throughout the year to educate fellows on the business aspect of their future practice.

Our private office locations are:

Fellows clinical experience will be guided by highly skilled physicians who specialize in sports related injuries. They will allow you to be the first physician to observe and evaluate new patients and then review your findings and treatment plan with them. Your clinical experience will provide you with the knowledge on diagnosis, management and treatment of a wide variety of sports medicine injuries, surgical indications, postoperative care, and rehabilitation protocols.

Fellows will perform most of their surgical procedures in a one-on-one teaching model with the Sports Medicine attending staff within an ambulatory surgery center setting. 

Our ambulatory surgery centers are located within our offices and include:

Training in the ambulatory surgery setting allows for a higher level of efficiency than the hospital setting. As a result, fellows will be exposed to more cases throughout their year of training. Further, you will have more time to spend in the operating room, maximizing the amount of learning opportunities you’ll have with our expert faculty members.

As many fellows will likely practice at least part-time in an ambulatory setting, the fellowship allows fellows to learn how the ambulatory center prepares patients for surgical procedures and discharge.

Located on the eastern side of Buffalo, this 583-bed acute care center admits patients from the local urban area, as well as a wide referral range that encompasses all eight counties of Western New York. Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) is a regional center for trauma, burn, rehabilitation and cardiac care.

You can expect to build expertise in various areas of shoulder surgery — including open shoulder stabilization, fractures and anatomic and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty — during our shoulder arthroplasty rotation at ECMC.

During your ongoing rotations on team coverage, you’ll gain experience in training rooms and various sports venues when you work with teams such as:

• Buffalo Bills
• Buffalo Sabres
• Buffalo Bandits
• Buffalo State Bengals
  
• Hilbert College Hawks

Fellows will be present on the sidelines evaluating players at every home game for the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres and their college team. They will also evaluate players on a weekly basis in the athletic training room.