Inside HOKIE SPORTS | Vol. 13 No. 1 | August 2020

36 Inside Hokie Sports 99 Bradley Drive Christiansburg NRV Mall 540-381-8100 www.holidayinn.com/cburgnorth Full Service Restaurant Bar & Grill Game Day Catering. Dine in or Room Service Welcome Back HOKIES ! “We moved into this telemedicine phase where we did a lot of over-the- phone consults on things that didn’t need to be seen in the office,” Clickett said. “So that was a lot of GYN [gynecologist] visits. We still saw our obstetric patients in the office for the most part — basically they require more in-office care than some of the GYN consults. So that was a new phase that we needed to learn, doing these phone visits because we were used to seeing people face to face. It was interesting to deal with that, and now, we’re wearing masks all the time. That’s been an adjustment. Just a lot of different aspects now.” As a chief resident, King, a native of nearby Radford whose father ran a private practice in the New River Valley for years before retiring, ran into another issue forced by the pandemic—an inability to test new procedures on patients and teach those to residents looking to learn as they progress in their careers. “The joy of being a chief resident is to aggressively teach,” King said. “You want to start seeing younger residents progress faster, but if I haven’t completed enough of a certain procedure to feel confident to a degree, then I’m not quite ready to hand off some of that responsibility and some of those cases. So that has a trickledown effect.” VCOM STUDENTS COPE WITH CHANGES The trickledown effect reaches as far as those still pursuing their Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree at VCOM. Marie Johnston, a former Tech women’s soccer player from Midlothian, Virginia, and Tara Feehan, a former lacrosse player from Glen Head, New York—two former roommates—both concluded their third year at VCOM this summer. The first two years at VCOM consist mostly of classroom taking on COVID-19 Continued from page 35 Dr. Reginald Pinder (bottom left) is a former Tech student trainer who received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from VCOM and has been working as a sports medicine fellow, helping the Tech sports medical staff to care for the school’s student-athletes.