Fellowship Director's

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AOSSM Annual Meeting Keystone, CO Friday July 10,
2009 300-500pm
Fellowship Director's Meeting
Author has no conflicting interests
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2009 Fellowship Committee

• Christopher D. Harner MD, Chair
• Kyle Anderson, MD
• E. Lyle Cain, Jr., MD
• Donald C. Fithian, MD
• Robert S. Heidt, Jr., MD
• David S. Pereira, MD
• Ned Amendola, MD
• Brian J. Cole, MD, MBA
• Neal S. ElAttrache, MD
• Richard D. Ferkel, MD
• Mark S. Schickendantz, MD

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2009 Fellowship Committee
New Committee Members (serving 8/1/09-7/31/2013) D
r. Christina Allen Dr. Brian Wolf Dr. Christopher
Kaeding Dr. David Martin Dr. Larry Field Dr.
Keith Swanson Dr. Ned Amendola will be chair
effective 8/1/09-7/31/2012 Christopher D. Harner
will serve as ex-officio until 7/31/2010.
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Agenda

• 2009 Year in review
• ACGME accreditation
• 2009 Fellow Exam
• ABOS Subspecialty Exam update
• 2009 Match (CDH DB)
• 2010 Match (Doug Brown)

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Year in Review
ACGME Accreditation Sports Medicine Fellowships
SSC 1st year
90/103 fellowships (213 positions)
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Year in Review

• 2009 Fellows Exam
• 204 signed up
• 202 took the exam
• Results
• 2008 exam Average exam score 83

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Year in Review

• Observations of 2009 Fellows Exam
• Exam content reflects Sports Medicine curriculum
  as decided by ABOS/ACGME
• Exam was easy! (p79)
• Make recommendation to committee to write more
  challenging questions (Fellows level)
• Incorporate video based questions
• Use content breakdown results to adjust
  educational programs/conferences/journal
  clubs/etc in your program
• Fellows should take the exam individually,
  closed book, score and recorded (i.e. real
  exam situation) for best feedback on the fellows
  and program

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ABOS Subspecialty Exam Update

• 2007 Examination
• 618 applicants / 613 accepted to sit / 587 took
  exam
• 529 passed (90 pass rate)
• 186 questions (min passing score 82.6)
• 2008 Examination
• 398 applicants / 397 accepted to sit / 356 took
  exam
• 330 passed (93 pass rate)
• 187 questions (min passing score 78.6)
• 2009 Examination
• 332 applicants / 330 accepted to sit
• Exam Nov. 5, 2009 (abos.org)

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ABOS Subspecialty Exam Update
Sports SC timeline
MOC
Recert
Sports SC
2007
2008
2009
2011
2020
Grandfather Period Ends
will need accredited sports fellowship
abos.orgDiplomatecertificate expiration year
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ABOS UpdateSC Cert. and MOC

• You need your primary SSC to sit combined
  MOC/Sports sub exam
• For primary SSC exam the grandfather period ends
  in 2011
• Current sports practice profile CBT
• Phasing out in 2011
• MOC/Sports SC combination
• SSC will follow MOC process
• (similar to hand)

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Subspecialty Certification Update

• Tying SC Certification into MOC
• Written pathway approved by ABOS(2008)
• Those individuals who pass the Sports Medicine
  Subspecialty Certification Exam will be eligible
  to sit a combined pathway examination to satisfy
  Part III MOC requirements when the diplomate is
  eligible to apply for recertification of the
  primary orthopaedic certificate.
• Primary and SSC Certificates will then have the
  same expiration date / time course

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Subspecialty Certification Update

• Sports Medicine Computer Based Exam
• The current Sports CBT practice profile
  recertification examination will be phased out by
  2012
• For those individuals who do not possess a
  Subspecialty Certificate in Sports Medicine and
  want to recertify their Primary Orthopaedic
  Certificate, there will be the following options
  
• General Orthopaedic Computer-Based Examination
• An oral examination based upon a 6 month case
  list of the Diplomate (Sports Medicine
  Examination Panel)
• Oral Pathway for SSC/MOC will be created

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What About D.O.s?

• Must have the big one to get the little one
• -GPaul DeRosa
• ABOS Board certified
• 2011 must graduate from ACGME accredited
  fellowship
• DO track for SC certification in sports medicine
• MD residency
• Pass Part I/II
• Pass SC exam

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Pathways to Orthopaedic Certification

• Part I
• Written exam taken July after graduation
• To sit you need basic minimum requirements
  (Credentials Committee)
• Part II
• Oral exam based on practice (subspecialty)
• Taken 2 years after successfully passing part I

Subspecialty Certification Hand (1989) Sports
(est. 2006)
Recertification (ends 2011) (every 10 years)
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) (every 10
years)
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AOSSM Fellows Page

• Sponsored by Smith Nephew
• www.sportsmed.org
• Login (username password)
• FREE access to online meetings
• Helpful links for fellows
• More to come!
• Available to Fellows on August 1 and
• for 18 months.

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2009 Match Data

• Program Participation
• 95 Programs participated (92)
• 93 submitted rank order lists
• 2 contacted the Society because they had no
  interviews. Are participating in the scramble.
  
• 224 Positions
• 209 Accredited
• 15 Non-Accredited
• 83 of all positions (184) matched.
• 71 of all programs (67) fully matched.

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2009 Match Data

• Applicant Participation
• 241 Applicants registered
• 43 withdrew or didnt submit rank list
• 198 Applicants participating
• 184 applicants matched
• 14 applicants did not match

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2009 Match Data

• Insight
• Mean number of applicants that a program ranked
  was 8.46 per position
• Median was 7.5
• Programs that fully matched ranked an average of
  9.34 applicants per position. (Median 7.5)
• Programs that did not fully match ranked an
  average of 6.36 applicants per position. (Median
  6.5)
• Programs that did not match any position ranked
  an average of 5.73 applicants per position.
  (Median 4)
• Programs that matched their 1 ranked applicant,
  ranked an average of 8.22 applicants per
  position. (Median 6)

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2009 Match Data

• 22 Programs (23) matched 1 applicant
• 7 programs were single position programs
• 15 programs with multiple positions matched
  their first choice applicant
• 4 programs with multiple positions had all of
  their ranked applicants match in order -
  representing a total of 11 positions72 of
  applicants got their 1st or 2nd choice

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2009 Match Data

• There were 9 non-accredited programs in the match
  - representing 15 positions
• 5 of those programs did not fully match
• 6 of the 15 positions did not match
• Of the 9 non-accredited positions that did not
  match, 3 positions were in programs with other
  accredited positions.

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Thank You
Good luck Ned and committee!
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