Hoag Orthopedic Institute: Thumbs Up From ACGME, Commencing Sports Medicine Fellowship

Hoag Orthopedic Institute has received an endorsement from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), and, through its Orthopedic Education and Research Institute (OERI), will now provide fellowship training in sports medicine. Hoag Orthopedic Institute will begin accepting residents in sports medicine 2016; this is in addition to its previously offered fellowship opportunities in joint and spine in 2016.

According to the August 31, 2015 news release, “Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI) and OERI obtained sponsorship, a requisite for earning accreditation from the ACGME, from Loma Linda University, which routinely has more than 650 residents in various specialties and subspecialties. Medical residents at Loma Linda University, which did not previously have fellowships in sports medicine, will now have the opportunity to receive their training from the physicians at HOI.”

“It is an honor to be given the opportunity to work in collaboration with Loma Linda to provide our unique and innovative orthopedic training to the surgeons of tomorrow, ” said Carlos Prietto, M.D., president of HOI and chairman of OERI. “We are confident that through our direction and model of care, many will become some of the most elite surgeons of their generation as a result of our mentoring.”

Dr. Prietto told OTW, “We plan to continue providing a high quality education and experience for the fellow. Hopefully in a year we can obtain funding such that we can have two sports fellows per year.”