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- Hi, my name's Jackie McKenna.
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I'm one of the primary care sports medicine fellows
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here at USC Prisma Health.
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I'm originally from Long Island, New York,
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It's where I grew up and I was really drawn
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to this program because of the broad exposure
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that we get to the field of sports medicine,
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whether that's on the field in the primary care
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orthopedic sports medicine clinics or on campus.
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We just have so many different opportunities here,
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so many different people to learn from.
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- I'm Christina Rizk,
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I'm one of the primary care sports medicine fellows
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here at Prisma Health and University of South Carolina.
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I'm originally from Apex, North Carolina
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which is a small town outside of Raleigh.
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What drew me here was that it was in the southeast
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which is an environment I was pretty comfortable with
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and knew I wanted to stay in.
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And also offered a lot of opportunities
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from SEC sports coverage, to teaching,
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to different ultrasound skills,
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all of which things I knew I wanted
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out of a sports medicine program.
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- Our role through the fellowship program,
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we wear a lot of hats while we're here,
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so we spend quite a bit of time on campus
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covering various USC athletic events,
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spending time in student health.
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During the day we're in the clinic,
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where we're either working with the Prisma Health
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orthopedic teams, that's both primary care sports medicine
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and the orthopedic surgeons,
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as well as some time at the family medicine center
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where we're doing primary care.
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- We've done a lot of game coverage
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and you kind of jump in pretty early in the fall,
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especially 'cause football seasons picking up
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and you got both USC Gamecock football
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plus you're own high school football
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plus other fall sports that you're covering.
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But in that time we're also working
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with our primary care attending, seeing,
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musculoskeletal injuries, doing some ultrasound,
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doing some ultrasound guided procedures.
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And then as the year goes on
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we get more and more independent with those.
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We get to do more and more different procedures
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and then probably in the next few months
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kind of honing in of our ultrasound, our procedure skills,
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and making sure we can accurately diagnose
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and treat common musculoskeletal complaints
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so we can do those in our practices going forward.
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- I'm Zoe Foster,
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I'm the program director here
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for the primary care Sports Medicine Fellowship
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at Prisma Health Midlands.
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Our fellows are intimately involved
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with all of our varsity athletic teams here.
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They provide home coverage for our football team,
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home coverage for both men's and women's soccer,
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as well as our baseball team in the spring.
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Our fellows have the opportunity to provide
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home and away coverage
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for our men's and women's basketball team.
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It gives them the opportunity and the autonomy
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to learn how to make their own decisions on the sidelines.
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They get to work one-on-one
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with our team's athletic trainer
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and it really gives them the opportunity
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to get to know not only the athletic trainer
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but the team that they helped take care of.
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I think in addition to our sideline coverage,
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another key experiences for our fellows
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are the opportunity to do some teaching.
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So our fellows are involved with teaching medical students.
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We have medical students who rotate with us
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as part of their sports medicine elective.
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We are also responsible for the MSK rotations
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that our family medicine residents do
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as part of their time here at Prisma Health.
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Our fellows also have the opportunity to work
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with athletic training students
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at all levels of their education.
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- I think the exposure that we get
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at a division one setting and how we are truly integrated
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into the team is something that's very unique.
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Christina and I are the first call when something goes on.
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We're triaging phone calls from the athletic trainers
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and really have the opportunity
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to make the first plan of management.
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And I felt like here I could get that autonomy
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that's needed in order to feel ready
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for independent practice within 12 short months.
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And I also felt
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like there was a very positive learning environment
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in terms of the mentorship, the teachers.
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- Things I've learned so far in the program
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that will help me in the future,
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all the physical exam skills that we learn here,
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all the different injections that we learn
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so we can treat them, hopefully save them
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from having to go to a surgery,
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but still get them back to functioning.
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And also just how to talk to patients and talk to them
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at whatever level of exercise they're at,
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from like the novices to like the advanced athletes.
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Just getting those little nuances to get them to trust you,
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so they trust that you're doing the best
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you can to take care of them.
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- I think one of the strengths of our fellowship
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is we have wonderful relationships
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with people in many different departments
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at Prisma Health and at the University of South Carolina.
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Our fellows do spend at least several half days per week
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with our orthopedists and with our primary care
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sports medicine folks who work
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in the orthopedic department.
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We also have great relationships
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at the University of South Carolina.
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We're here today at Student Health
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and our fellows spend two half days here every week
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as part of their primary care sports medicine clinic,
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taking care of the general student body
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for any sports medicine concern
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and taking care of our student athletes for any concern.
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So we truly get to see the full breadth
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of illnesses and injuries.
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What I think is exciting is our fellows feel prepared
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to go on to practice in any of multiple settings
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and what we hear back from them is universally positive
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about their education here.
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