Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship
Join an ACGME-accredited program to learn about primary care for patients with acute and chronic conditions as well as patients with injuries from recreational activities that affect their daily lives.
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A Message From Our Program Director
Welcome to the St. Anthony North Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship website! As Program Director, I’d like to share with you the details of our program and to give you a better understanding of what makes our program unique, besides its incredible location in the Denver area!
As a community-based program, we have primarily an office-based curriculum with a substantial portion of the fellow’s education coming directly from clinical experience. Our musculoskeletal ultrasound teaching begins on your first day in the office where you will work alongside several experienced faculty who utilize MSK US daily for both diagnostic and procedural purposes. A formal MSK US curriculum is also included in the fellow’s weekly schedule. In addition to formal US teaching, our program has implemented a learner-centered curriculum which includes a mix of assigned readings, lectures and CAQ prep. Lectures vary, and highlights include, educational U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee lectures, the AMSSM National Fellow Online Lecture Series, as well as in person didactics.
We work very closely with our Family Medicine Residency and when at our home clinic, many of our referrals come from within our own health system. There is a robust sports medicine track within our family medicine residency. The fellow works with the residents weekly during sports medicine clinic allowing for ample teaching and precepting experience. Annually, our fellow travels to a national meeting, typically AMSSM, where they present an interesting case and/or original research completed during the fellowship year.
Our patient mix is diverse and given the wide variety of practice locations the fellow is exposed to, our fellow gains insight into the practice setting they wish to pursue post fellowship. As a community-based program, we have the flexibility to tailor the year towards any special interests the fellow may have. In addition to the above, highlights of our program also include working with a wide breadth of orthopedic subspecialties, a robust pediatric sports medicine rotation at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, a month-long ski clinic/trauma rotation, and rotation through a multi-disciplinary concussion clinic. Exercise physiology experience is gained through the Colorado State University Human Performance Clinical Research Lab. The fellow also gains valuable game coverage and training room experience working with professional to D1, D2 and HS level athletes. As part of the fellow’s experience with mass participation events, the fellow covers the Colfax Marathon where they are also involved in planning meetings leading up to the event.
We thank you for your interest in our program and look forward to meeting you during interview season. Please reach out to our program coordinator with any questions or to apply for an audition rotation.
Erin Morine, DO, CAQSM
Program Director
St. Anthony North Sports Medicine Fellowship
Additional Program Details
View the information below for additional program details.
Fellows are required to have current ACLS/BLS certification before rotations begin
Fellows in good standing may sit for the CAQ examination at the conclusion of the fellowship year
Fellows will care for athletes of all levels, from high school through professional teams and will be in various athletic training rooms throughout the year. Sports usually include football, soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, rugby, hockey, cross country and track & field. The fellow will be responsible for home game coverage and, in some cases, away games. The fellow will work closely with Metropolitan State University of Denver Sports Medicine to triage orthopedic injuries and provide primary care. They will also work with Colorado School of Mines and University of Denver.
CommonSpirit Health covers 86+ special events throughout the year. Fellows will be involved in planning and covering the Colfax Marathon. Fellows will also cover various NCAA and RMAC tournaments/ events throughout the year.
The fellow will have various opportunities to collaborate with research faculty from Colorado State University and Panorama Orthopedic and Spine Center to complete a research project by the end of the fellowship year.
The fellow completes a one-month rotation at Copper Mountain, Keystone and Breckenridge. Time is spent working with ski patrol and in the urgent care at the base of each mountain
All clinics are equipped with GE ultrasound units for musculoskeletal imaging. Primary care sports medicine faculty all use ultrasound in clinics for diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic injection. A portable tablet ultrasound will also be used throughout the year to teach the fellow.
Faculty
About Nicholas Gamble
Nicolas Gamble, MD, is on a mission to create a comfortable and caring environment for patients to reach their goals in injury prevention, care, and recovery. Dr. Gamble treats non-surgical injuries and disorders of muscles, joints, and bones and provides splinting and casting, fracture management, and joint injections. Dr. Gamble completed his undergraduate studies at Tulane University in New Orleans and attended medical school at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque. Outside of work, Dr. Gamble enjoys a variety of outdoor hobbies including fishing, hiking, skiing, and soccer.
Why he chose this program
Dr. Gamble chose this program because it has a strong family and community focus with a vast network of connected specialists who can comprehensively care for the patient and their needs. He focuses on listening to a patient's values and working to help achieve their goals in the best way possible to improve their overall quality of life.
Special interests
Injury prevention and management, sports-related injury rehabilitation, primary care for athletes and people with athletic goals
