West Coast Sports Medicine Foundation Sports Medicine Fellowship

Family Practice Sports Medicine Fellowship Program

Fellowship Partners: Harbor - UCLA Medical Center, The West Coast Sports Medicine Foundation, and Kaiser Permanente.

• ACGME Accredited
• Established 1999

Contact Info: Fellowship Director: Bernadette Pendergraph, M.D., Harbor-UCLA Family Medicine Department
Phone Number: (310) 257-4991    Fax Number: (310) 326-7205
Email: bpenderpragh@labiomed.org

Fellowship Faculty:  Harbor UCLA, Bernadette Pendergraph, M.D., Kaiser Permanente, Evan Bass, M.D., WCSMF, Keith Feder, M.D., WCSMF, Jill Sleight, ATC. 

WCSMF Info: 1200 Rosecrans Ave # 206, Manhattan Beach, CA. 90266 

310-726-0750 phone, 310-726-0752 fax, www.wcsportsmed.com and www.westcoastorthopedics.com

Dear Prospective Fellow,                             

The Fellowship offers a unique aspect to the Family Practice Sports Medicine Fellowship Program which combines three institutions: Harbor UCLA Medical Center, The West Coast Sports Medicine Foundation and Kaiser Permanente. Surgical Exposure in the fellowship includes: Sports Medicine/Arthroscopic Surgery/Articular Cartilage Repair Fellowship Position.  Surgical Exposure includes:  Ligament Reconstruction of the Shoulder and Knee, Meniscus Repair, Meniscus Allograft Implantation, Autograft/Allograft OATS, Tibial/Femoral Osteotomy and a Comprehensive Foot and Ankle experience.

The fellow will participate directly with the care of High School, College and Professional Athletes, in addition to junior college athletics.  Research and Teaching opportunities are also offered.  The WCSMF runs a high school outreach clinic on Saturday mornings (Fall ONLY), for football, where we see local high school athletic injuries.  This clinic is offered to all of the Team to Win high schools.  More information about the Team to Win program can be found on our web site at www.wcsportsmed.com.

The Team to Win outreach program is a community outreach program for high school athletes who cannot afford sports medicine care.  The WCSMF puts certified athletic trainers out at 22 high schools each year, and sideline physicians out at football games on Friday nights.  The fellow will be responsible for covering Friday night football, in addition to working Saturday injury clinics along side other physicians and surgeons.  In addition the fellow will be the primary team physician of a Junior College in the area.  This responsibility will require Saturday football games (approximately 5 total games per season). The WCSMF in partnership with Kaiser and Harbor UCLA runs a family practice sports medicine fellowship, and takes two (2) family practice fellows each year to assist with the Team to Win program.

The WCSMF Team to Win program is a fast paced program, and FALL (football season) is the busiest.  We slow down considerably once football is over, but we like to make sure that any MD applying for this Fellowship, understands that the fall is very busy for any orthopedic practice, but, especially one focused on high school and college sports.

The applicant must be Board-certified/eligible and obtain a California License.  This is a 1 Year Fellowship and will begin on August 1 through July 31.

Fellowship Program Details:

This Family Practice Sports Medicine Fellowship provides a truly unique teaching and learning environment.  The Sports Medicine fellow is exposed to high school, collegiate and professional athletes.

Bern/Evan (let me know what we can do here, to fill in details) as there is overlap I know…..

Harbor UCLA:

Kaiser Permanente:

WCSMF: While at the WCSMF the fellow works throughout the year in conjunction with Dr. Feder, Dr. Frey and Dr. Hohl providing coverage of multiple high school, junior college, college Div I – lll:  LA SW College, LA Harbor College and Cal State Dominguez Hills, as well as the LA Rugby Club.

The Sports Medicine fellow, oversees a high school sports medicine clinic providing care for 23 high schools (13,000 male & female athletes).

The WCSMF fellowship is unique in providing a through clinical and surgical orthopedic foot & ankle learning experience with Carol Frey, MD that includes extensive exposure to both open and arthroscopic small joint surgical procedures.  Keith S. Feder, MD provides, in addition to the basic arthroscopic sports medicine procedures, exposure to articular restoration and meniscus transplantation.

Shoulder/Upper Extremity

1. Perform complete history and physical exam of shoulder, and elbow to include subtle and provocative exam testing.
2. Understand the indications for diagnostic imaging of soft tissue injury and degeneration.
3. Demonstrate proficiency in interpreting magnetic resonance images of the shoulder, and elbow.
4. Understand indications for surgical arthroscopy and reconstructive surgery of the shoulder, and elbow in managing joint and soft tissue trauma and degenerative disorders.
5. Understand the biomechanics of shoulder function to include mechanisms of stability and cuff function.
6. Understand the rationale and basis of shoulder rehabilitation in non-operative patients.
7. Demonstrate technical proficiency in routine and complex arthroscopic and arthroscopic assisted surgery of the shoulder (acromioplasty, distal clavicle resection, instability surgery, labral surgery, rotator cuff disease, complex revision and Hemi/total shoulder arthroplasty.)

Knee/Lower Extremity

1. Perform complete history and physical exam of the knee and provocative exam testing.
2. Understand the indications for diagnostic imaging of soft tissue injury and degeneration.
3. Demonstrate proficiency in interpreting magnetic resonance images and bone scans of the knee.
4. Understand indications for surgical arthroscopy and reconstructive surgery of the knee in managing joint and soft tissue trauma and degenerative disorders.
5. Understand the biomechanics of knee function to include menisci, cruciate & collateral ligaments and patellofemoral joint.
6. Understand the rationale and basis of knee rehabilitation in non-operative patients.
7. Demonstrate technical proficiency in routine and complex arthroscopic and arthroscopic assisted surgery of the knee (Meniscectomy, loose body, chondroplasty, lateral release, meniscal repair, ACL, PCL and multiple ligament construction, OATS procedure.)
8. Demonstrate proficiency in ability to develop an appropriate initial non-operative treatment plan for the knee disorders - traumatic and degenerative.

Foot/Ankle

1. Perform complete history and physical exam of the foot/ankle provocative exam testing.
2. Understand the indications for diagnostic imaging of the soft tissue injury and degeneration.
3. Demonstrate proficiency in interpreting magnetic resonance images CT scans and bone scans of the foot/ankle.
4. Understand the indications for foot/ankle arthroscopy and reconstructive surgery of the foot/ankle in managing joint and soft tissue trauma and degenerative disorders.
5. Understand the biomechanics of foot/ankle/subtalar joint
6. Understand the rationale and basis of foot/ankle rehabilitation in non-operative –patients.
7. Demonstrate technical proficiency in routine and complex arthroscopic and arthroscopic assisted surgery of the foot/ankle (arthroscopy of ankle, subtalar joint, lateral ligament reconstruction, OAT procedure and microfracture).
8. Demonstrate proficiency in ability to develop an appropriate initial non-operative treatment plan for foot/ankle disorders – traumatic and degenerative.

Sports Team Coverage

1. Demonstrate understanding of principles of team coverage including pre-season, post-season issues.
2. Understand principles behind treatment of C-spine & head injuries during games & returning to play considerations.
3. Demonstrate the ability to diagnose acute athletic soft tissue injuries during games & in the training room & initiate appropriate care.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of rehabilitation principles following injuries and surgeries.