Curriculum
The program provides flexibility in curriculum focus to allow achievement of each trainee’s individual learning needs:
Gainesville Rotations:
- Medical Intensive Care Unit – 3 months
- Medical Intensive Care Unit Night Float – 2 months
- Pulmonary inpatient consults – 2.5 months
- Pulmonary procedures – 1.5 months
- Pulmonary ambulatory medicine – 0.5 month
- Elective and Research* – 2.5 months
* Rotation site depends on the elective chosen
Gainesville Rotations:
- Medical Intensive Care Unit – 1 month
- Medical Intensive Care Unit Night Float – 1 month
- Pulmonary inpatient consults – 1 month
- Pulmonary procedures – 1 month
- Pulmonary ambulatory medicine – 1 month
- Neuro ICU (Critical Care elective) – 0.5 month
- Surgical and Trauma ICU (Critical Care elective) – 0.5 month
Braselton Rotations:
- Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Unit – 1.5 month
- Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Unit Night Float – 1 month
- Pulmonary inpatient consults – 1.5 months
- Elective and Research * – 2 months
* Rotation site depends on the elective chosen
Gainesville Rotations:
- Medical Intensive Care Unit Night Float – 1 month
- Pulmonary inpatient consults – 0.5 month
- Pulmonary procedures – 0.5 month
- Pulmonary ambulatory medicine – 1.5 months
- Neuro ICU (Critical Care elective) – 0.5 month
- Surgical and Trauma ICU (Critical Care elective) – 0.5 month
- Cardiovascular ICU (Critical Care elective) – 1 month
Braselton Rotations:
- Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Unit – 0.5 month
- Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Unit Night Float – 1 month
- Pulmonary inpatient consults – 0.5 months
- Elective and Research * – 4.5 months
* Rotation site depends on the elective chosen
- Sleep
- Radiology
- Anesthesiology
- Oncology/Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Heart failure/Pulmonary hypertension
- Rheumatology
- Transplant ICU
- Burn unit
Rotation site depends on the elective chosen.
The core curriculum conference series will be delivered in a weekly academic half-day format. Our academic half-day sessions will take place on Thursdays from 12 PM to 3 PM. During this protected time, fellows will be relieved of all clinical duties, with either faculty or an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) handling the pager.
The sessions will feature faculty-led didactic lectures and a variety of conferences, including thoracic oncology case conferences, thoracic radiology case conferences, lung pathology case conferences, clinical case conferences, board review series, journal club, and ultrasound case conferences. Additionally, fellows on inpatient consults and bronchoscopy rotations are expected to attend the chest board/lung nodule conference every other Thursday morning from 7 AM to 8 AM.
Moreover, simulation sessions, research and quality improvement conferences, and morbidity and mortality conferences will be conducted quarterly.
Fellows are expected to actively engage in scholarly activities, working closely with the GME Research & Quality Improvement and Scholarly Activity teams. Dedicated research blocks are allocated throughout all three years of training.
Fellows attend a pulmonary continuity clinic one half-day per week throughout all three years of their fellowship. This clinic experience is conducted at the NGPG (Northeast Georgia Physicians Group) Pulmonary Office. Clinics are canceled during non-elective ICU and night float blocks.
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.
Fellows will have education sessions by the GME Director of Wellness 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.