Musculoskeletal ultrasound: taking sports medicine to the next level.

Br J Sports Med December 2010 Vol 44 No 16 1135 Society for Sports Medicine and other societies. These guidelines state that one route to competency is through a residency or fellowship that provides ‘structured MSK US training’. With interest in MSK US, high among sports medicine physicians, many sports medicine fellowship programs have been working hard to provide a curriculum which will result in skilled practitioners. The AMSSM has suggested a curriculum that residencies, fellowships and educational courses can base their training on which is presented (see page 1144). The effort was led by well-known MSK US educators and AMSSM members Jon Finoff, Jay Smith and Mark LaVallee. The curriculum consists of four parts; a didactic component, a period of direct supervision, a proctored clinical experience and recommendations for continuing education. Many sports medicine fellowships have adopted the curriculum and in some institutions it has engendered multispecialty collaboration between those with an interest in US of the MSK system: sports medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, rheumatology, orthopedics, radiology and anaesthesia. In addition to the suggested curriculum, the AMSSM sponsors several courses on MSK US. There will be US preconferences prior to the annual meeting in Salt Lake City, 30 April 2010, offering both basic and advanced learning. The AMSSM Annual meeting itself (30 April 2010–4 May 2010) will feature leading national and international experts on a variety of sports medicine issues. AMSSM is also offering a basic MSK US course with the Andrews Institute in February and an advance course in Maine this spring. Visit our website for the latest details (http:// www.amssm.org/).