Each Club will have a board-certified orthopedic surgeon as one of its Club physicians (“Head Team Orthopedist”), and all other physicians retained by a Club to treat players shall be board-certified in their field of medical expertise. Each Club will also have at least one board-certified internist, family medicine, or emergency medicine physician (“Head Team Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician”). Each Club shall designate either its Head Team Orthopedist or its Head Team Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician as the “Head Team Physician.” Any Club medical physician (internist, family medicine or emergency medicine) or any Head Team Physician (orthopedic or primary care sports medicine) hired or appointed to that role after the effective date of this Agreement, must have one of the following:

• i. A Certification of Added Qualification (CAQ) in Sports Medicine; or
• ii. Certification by a current NFL Head Team Physician that the physician has:
  • a. Three (3) years affiliation with an NFL Club’s medical staff, during which the physician must have attended and participated in Training Camp(s), NFL Scouting Combine(s), and a minimum of sixteen (16) games (including preseason and away games); and
  • b. Comprehensive knowledge of the NFL Head, Neck and Spine Committee’s Concussion Protocol, the NFL Policy and Program on Substances of Abuse, the NFL Policy on Performance-Enhancing Substances, the NFL’s Behavioral Health Program, the NFL’s Pain Management Guidelines, the NFL’s policy on spinal injuries, the NFL Emergency Action Plan, the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Heat-Related Illness; and the DICON Program for Infection Prevention in the NFL.