TicketsCINCINNATI - The University of Cincinnati Department of Athletics and health care provider UC Health partnered together for the latest episode of UC Health: Behind the Scenes.
Head Team Physician Dr. Jon Divine was featured along with Bearcats student-athletes and sports medicine personnel. A large focus of the story is the state-of-the art vision training program and its effect on reducing concussion rates for UC student-athletes. Watch the video above, read a portion of the story below and visit UC Health's website for the complete story.
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As head team physician, Dr. Jon Divine is the primary care doctor for about 500 athletes, a job he calls "really fun."
"It's a different medical care delivery model. I'm on call basically every night for the athletes here and the providers here."
Dr. Divine, or one of the other 14 UC Health providers, staff a clinic in the UC Athletics training room Monday through Friday, and even some Saturdays.
In many ways, care for these athletes looks a lot like care you'd find at any family medicine practice.
The clinic is tucked away at the end of a hallway in the training room, located in the Richard E. Lindner Athletic Center on UC's Clifton campus. It's past the line of tables where athletes stretch or ice, past the recovery corner, where some sit against the walls wearing lower-body compression suits meant to encourage blood circulation.
The door of the clinic has an eye chart, and inside is an X-ray machine, cotton swabs, a bottle of iodide, gauze.
If an athlete has a cough or a rash, they're treated in this clinic room. If it's something more complex, they are referred to UC Health, made possible through the strong partnership with UC.
"At my disposal is every specialty available to take care of just about any problem, two blocks away," Dr. Divine says of UC Medical Center.
READ THE COMPLETE STORY ON UCHEALTH.COM: Click HEREUC Health: Behind the Scenes is an episodic miniseries that shares the life-saving power of academic medicine through an unprecedented firsthand look. Learn about the selfless dedication and compassion it takes to care for those with the most complex and critical care needs. Follow our physicians and clinicians through a normal "day in the life."