The Plancher Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Program – GME Office – Orthopaedic Foundation for Active Lifestyles, Inc

This ACGME-approved Fellowship is designed to offer an extensive clinical experience in sports medicine to include ligament repair/reconstruction, traumatic injuries as well as arthroplasty. It focuses on operative and non-operative care of all individuals from pediatric to the middle-aged athlete. The Fellow will gain knowledge and experience through increased clinical volume, observation of patient outcomes in the clinic and monitoring patient satisfaction (PROM’s) that are monitored on all surgical patients.
The fellow upon graduation will be proficient in arthroscopic and open procedures of the knee, shoulder, elbow, hip, foot and ankle, wrist, and orthobiologics.

Plancher Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Program

Program Fast Facts:

  • ACGME Accredited: Yes
  • Sports Medicine Fellows per year: 2
  • Duration: 1 year

How to Apply:
Application process and match service through San Francisco Match www.sfmatch.org

Deadline for Application: December 1 of the application year

Interviews held in accordance with AOSSM assigned regional time frame

*For more information please contact GME Program Coordinator Janine Bahar at jbahar@ofals.org
Then make a separate tab that goes under the Fellowship tab that has:

Fellowship Research

  • Fellowship Research
  • Requirement – Yes
      • 1 Review Article
      1 Original research project / Presentation at West Point Research Fellows

Day – Early June

  • Support staff for research – Yes / Research Director Stephanie Petterson, PhD
  • Dedicated research time – Yes / 6 weeks provided through the year
    • 6 station cadaver lab
    • 24 hours/7 days a week available for Fellow
    • Open and arthroscopic procedures