Sports Medicine Fellowship

Letter from the Program Director

We offer a robust Division 1 athletic coverage experience at Cal Baptist University and the University of California Riverside. We provide comprehensive medical care for athletes both in training room and on the sideline. We also continue to serve our community by offering sideline coverage and training room coverage for Riverside City College and several local high schools, specifically for football. We also have a relationship with CAMO MMA and USA boxing and frequently cover amateur fight events. Our fellowship is one of the few with emphasis on the care of the combat athlete and is listed in Association of Ringside Physicians website.

Because musculoskeletal issues comprise one-third of all primary care visits, we believe in training physicians who'll care for the whole patient and who'll continue to serve the community. As a fellow at RUHS/UCR, you'll care for the medically underserved at the Perris Community Health Clinic, an FQHC. You'll partner with Riverside Medical Clinic to work free Saturday clinics available to high school students during football season. You'll have opportunities to work with our dedicated orthopedic surgeons both in clinic and in the operating room to care for the most medically indigent at the RUHS medical center. In addition, you will work one on one with our MSK radiologist to optimize your image reading.

We have a dedicated diagnostic and interventional ultrasound curriculum. This involves using ultrasound in the clinic as well as monthly lecture workshops to practice.

Our mission in sports medicine is to the underserved population of Riverside County. We help athletes and people of all skill level return to meaningful activity. We look forward to your application.

Sincerely,

Uziel Sauceda, MD

Program Director • CAQ Sports Medicine

RUHS/UCR Family Medicine Core Faculty

RUHS/UCR Sports Medicine Fellowship Program Director

USA Boxing Ringside Physician

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Welcome to the RUHS/UCR Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship

Thank you for considering our fellowship at the Riverside University Health System and University of California Riverside. We started our program in 2018 and continue to help our athletes and patients get back to optimal function.

Our Mission

The mission of our program is to recruit talented physicians and educate them in the principles and practice of sports medicine. Through our quality learning experience we aim to develop well-rounded, highly skilled physicians who are able to care for athletes at all levels of competition.

Our Faculty Staff

Meet our dedicated team of professionals

Uziel Sauceda, M.D.

Program Director

Fellowship Training: University of California, San Diego Sports Medicine Fellowship, San Diego

Residency Training: University of California, San Diego Family Medicine Residency Program, San Diego

Sarah Duan, DO

Associate Program Director

Fellowship Training: RUHS/UCR Sports Medicine Fellowship, Moreno Valley

Residency Training: RUHS Family Medicine Residency Program, Moreno Valley

Adolfo Aguilera, M.D.

Physician Faculty

Residency Training: RUHS/UCR Family Medicine Residency Program, Moreno Valley

Brett Powers, DO

Physician Faculty

Fellowship Training: Ohio State University Orthopaedic Surgery Sports Medicine Fellowship, Columbus

Residency Training: Summa Health Care System Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program, Akron

Bryon Thompson, DO

Radiology Physician Faculty

Fellowship Training: Naval Medical Center Porthmouth (Musculoskeletal Radiology)

Residency Training: Aultman Hospital/ NEOMED (Radiology)

Jason Ng, Ph.D.

CSCS, *D, EIM Faculty

Education: CSU San Bernardino Associate Professor, Dept. Kinesiology Ph.D. in Human Performance - University of Alabama

Jessika Hunt

Head Athletic trainer, UCR Athletics ATC. Faculty

Jim Clover

DAT, ATC, PTA, CES Faculty

Affiliation: Riverside Medical Clinic and CSU San Bernardino Adjunct Professor

Salary & Benefits

As of July 1, 2023 the base salaries for the Sports Medicine Fellows are as follows:

Annual Salary: $75,428.00

Fellows are paid bi-weekly for 26 pay periods per year and direct deposit of your paycheck is available. You will be given a County payroll calendar at Orientation.

Fellows will receive the following benefits, subject to the same conditions applicable to Hospital exempt employees and the terms and conditions of the County of Riverside's current benefit plans and/or policies. The benefits listed below may be modified unilaterally by RUHS from time to time:

Health and Dental Insurance: RUHS Human Resources will inform the Fellows of various medical and dental insurance plans and options at the earliest opportunity so that residents may enroll early in an appropriate insurance plan. RUHS will provide comprehensive health insurance at no charge to fellows. Fellows wanting family coverage for medical insurance shall pay the difference between the premium for the family plan and the premium for the individual plan.
Disability insurance: RUHS will provide long-term and short-term disability insurance to fellows.
Life insurance: RUHS will provide life insurance coverage to fellows.
Worker's Compensation: RUHS will provide Worker's Compensation Insurance to fellows, consistent with RUHS's benefits program.
Vacation: Fifteen days of paid vacation per academic Year. Five days of paid conference time per academic year and holiday pay for all usual county holidays.
Counseling: Counseling services are available through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Lab coats/scrub suits: Lab coats and scrub suits are provided at no cost to fellows.
Meals: Meals at no cost are provided to the resident in the RUHS cafeteria while on 24-hour call. The meal allowance is $16.50 per day.

Curriculum

The Family Medicine Residency Program hosts an ACGME accredited Sports Medicine Fellowship that was established in 2018. Fellows who successful complete our one-year program can earn a Certificate of Added Qualification in Sports Medicine. We offer two positions per year and accept applications from physicians who have completed residency training or are near completion of residency training in fields of Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.

Fellows participate in a one-year longitudinal curriculum designed to develop their skills as Sports Medicine Physicians. Fellows regularly attend sports medicine continuity clinic, orthopedic sports medicine clinic, musculoskeletal ultrasound procedure clinic and sports medicine didactic sessions. Instead of the traditional "block" model where learners focus on one service or specialty each month, our fellows continuously have exposure to a variety of sports medicine learning experiences throughout the year. The longitudinal curriculum is designed to mimic the actual practice of physicians. Our purpose for using a longitudinal curriculum is to give our fellows exposure to variety of experiences but at the same time give them the experience of what a practice in sports medicine looks like. The curriculum is designed to achieve the medical knowledge, procedural skills, interpersonal skills, teaching skills, professionalism and competence required to care for physically active patients.

Our program offers weekly didactic sessions that are focused on topics in sports medicine. The didactic sessions include but are not limited to:

Lectures from faculty members and guest speakers
Sports Medicine Journal Club
Program Improvement Talks (PITs sessions)
Dedicated sports ultrasound sessions

The fellows in our program have extensive exposure to sports ultrasound through the use of ultrasound in the clinic setting, as well as participation in our sports ultrasound curriculum. We have designed a sports ultrasound curriculum that is consistent with the AMSSM recommendations for sports ultrasound curriculum for sports medicine fellowships. The sports ultrasound curriculum includes the following:

Sports ultrasound lectures
Hands-on sports ultrasound instruction
Clinical use of ultrasound for MSK exams and ultrasound guided procedures
Supplementary sports ultrasound education

Residency Training

Cook County Family Medicine Residency Program, Chicago

2018 - 2019

Years of Training

Poyrung Poysophon, MD

Residency Training

University of Washington Family Medicine Residency Program, Seattle

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Our fellowship is in Riverside County, California. Our fellows rotate in various neighboring cites: Riverside, Moreno Valley and Perris.

We have accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

We accept ACGME accredited residency graduates in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.

We accept two fellows per year, both allopathic and osteopathic candidates.

We currently accept Family Medicine, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. We are unable to accept Emergency Medicine or Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation specialties.

You can contact our Coordinator Treva Williams for more details at [email protected]

Our program began in 2018 with one fellow and increased to two fellows in 2019. Our program as filled all slots since starting the fellowship.

We do not currently sponsor visas.

Yes, RUHS utilizes EPIC for its electronic health record.

We look for applicants with a commitment to primary care sports medicine as well as commitment to their respective primary specialty. We value applicants with experience in the care of vulnerable populations.

We follow the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) recommend MSK US curriculum with monthly lectures followed by protected scanning time.

The main difference in our program is the care of the underserved community athletes and combat sports coverage.

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