Reporting to the Chief of Athletic Medicine at Yale Health, serve as primary care clinician to Yale varsity student athletes. Provide continuing, comprehensive healthcare for all varsity student athletes. Serve as primary care sports medicine consultant for Student Health services for non-varsity athletes and other students with sports or performance related musculoskeletal conditions. Evaluates and implements programs for primary, secondary and tertiary prevention of illness and injury to the student athlete. Serves as rapid access clinician in Student Health Department part-time during Summer sessions. Provides medical care to student athletes during varsity games as assigned. Works closely and collaboratively with Orthopedics and Athletics Departments, supports and supervises the clinical care provided by certified athletic trainers. Interacts with Deans and Heads of College as well as other stakeholders and Yale Health colleagues. This is a non-faculty clinical position. Faculty appointment may be requested with the Yale School of Medicine.
Graduation from an accredited medical school. Graduation from an accredited residency in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics or Emergency Medicine. Fellowship training in Primary Care Sports Medicine. Previous experience working with adolescents and young adults, preferably in a high school or college setting. Holds or is eligible to hold a CT medical license; a CT controlled substance registration and federal DEA registration. Board certification. Qualifies for hospital and faculty appointments.
In 1971, Yale University began a unique and historic experiment in providing health services to its faculty, staff and students through a multidisciplinary health maintenance organization located on campus. Now, 50 years later, Yale Health has more than 45,000 members including students, staff, faculty and their families who come from every state in the country and almost every country in the world. Yale Health is a not-for-profit, physician-led health plan that operates a medical center on the Yale campus. The organization provides care to the entire Yale community both through its central facility at 55 Lock Street and through additional clinicians and services known as the “Yale Health Network”. Yale New Haven Hospital is Yale Health’s network hospital.
Employing more than 100 healthcare professionals in a wide-range of specialties, Yale Health is equipped to provide 24/7 on-site care through its Acute Care Department, in addition to providing emergency and acute care coverage to its members outside of the state of Connecticut. Yale Health is accredited by the Joint Commission and is recognized as a Primary Care Medical Home.
