Curriculum
The curriculum follows a block schedule with required and elective rotations. Planned elective rotations include allergy, rheumatology, lung transplant, burn unit. As owners and entrepreneurs in your fellowship training, you will have the opportunity to plan and develop your own new electives as well.
As fellows progress in skills and knowledge, their clinical and patient management responsibilities increase. Attending faculty members provide graded supervision and work closely with fellows to help them achieve established course objectives and competency goals. Fellows also will gain leadership skills as they provide supervision of residents and advanced practice providers. At all times, the fellows will work closely with an attending.
PGY-4
- 4 months of MICU
- 2 months of inpatient pulmonary consults
- 2 months of pulmonary medical procedures
- 1 month of outpatient pulmonary clinic
- 1 month of outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation & sleep medicine
- 1 month of elective
- 1 month of research
PGY-5
- 2 months of MICU
- 2 months of pulmonary medical procedures
- 1 month of STICU
- 1 month of inpatient pulmonary consults
- 1 month in neurology critical care unit
- 1 month in heart failure and pulmonary hypertension unit
- 1 month in outpatient pulmonary clinic
- 1 month of outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation & sleep medicine
- 1 month of elective
- 1 month of research
PGY-6
- 1 month of MICU
- 1 month of critical care consults
- 1 month in neurology critical care unit
- 2 months of pulmonary medical procedures
- 1 month of inpatient pulmonary consults
- 1 month in outpatient pulmonary clinic
- 1 month of outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation & sleep medicine
- 1 month of palliative medicine
- 1 month of elective
- 2 months of research/elective
Fellow Conference Series
Didactics
Didactic lectures will be held daily Monday through Friday during protected time for noon lecture. Each day will be devoted to different subspecialty topics delivered in interactive format centered around clinical cases. Lectures will be led by faculty, fellows or guest speakers.
Simulation
Multi-disciplinary simulation sessions will be incorporated quarterly. Simulations will focus on cases relevant to your level of training including focus on crucial conversations, delivering bad news, informed consent in discussing risk/benefit of procedures or treatment plan and disclosing medical errors.
Journal Club
Fellow-led journal clubs will be done monthly during noon conference protected time.
M&M
Quarterly morbidity and mortality meetings will focus on systems issues and cognitive bias and will include both fellow cases as well as faculty cases.
Longitudinal Experiences
Diversity & Inclusion
The resident/fellow-run Diversity Committee will work with the GME Director of Diversity to advocate for a strong and diverse fellowship as well as for the experiences of our minority patients. Topics such as unconscious bias, health disparities for black patients and other patients of color, and LGBTQ health will be incorporated throughout our didactic series.
Research & Scholarly Activity
For scholarly activity, fellows will enhance their research skills from our GME Director of Research and Scholarly Activity. Through this process you will develop a scholarly project that will be presented to your peers at local and national levels.
Wellness
Fellows will benefit from education sessions by the GME Director of Wellness as well done periodically as part of their didactic series. Additionally, fellows will have a chance to participate in a GME level wellness-committee that will focus on advocating for resident/fellow wellness.
CoRE Curriculum
In addition to a block schedule, this program offers the Cornerstones of Resident Education (CoRE) – a three-year longitudinal curriculum which engages residents across all programs.