Year of Training/Number of Blocks
Continuity experience over both the PGY2 and PGY3 years
Community Faculty
- Kerianne Fuller, Athletic Trainer (Glacier High School)
- Brian Straub, Athletic Trainer (Flathead High School)
- Don Ericksen, MD (Flathead Orthopedics)
- Kim Stimpson, MD (Northwest Orthopedics and Sports Medicine)
- Mark Magill, MD (Northwest Orthopedics and Sports Medicine)
- P. Kurt Thorderson, MD (Northwest Orthopedics and Sports Medicine)
Rotation Locations
- Glacier High School
- Flathead High School
- Flathead Orthopedics
- Northwest Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Nature of the experience
The residents will work with Dr. Buls at the Sports Medicine Clinic on Monday afternoons. This clinic alternates between Flathead and Glacier every other week from 2:30pm to 5:30pm. During this clinic the residents will work with Dr. Buls and the athletic trainers to evaluate and treat the student athletes for acute sports injuries, acute illness, chronic medical conditions and rehabilitation of sports related conditions to ensure the optimal student athlete care. The residents will have opportunity to help with game and meet coverage for football, basketball, cross-country, soccer, track and field, wrestling and other athletic events throughout the year. The resident is expected at these sporting events to evaluate and treat injuries as they occur on the field and then follow up injuries or assess new injuries in a sports medicine clinic. The resident work with the athletic trainers to also learn rehabilitation exercises and stretching techniques to help speed recovery and prevent reinjures.
Focused goals and objectives
- Be proficient in preventative strategies to help individuals and groups avoid injuries to the musculoskeletal system.
- Perform age appropriate and activity specific pre-participation physical evaluation or PPE, as described in the PPE Monograph.
- Proficiency in AAFP Curriculum Guidelines on Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine