Our three-year curriculum combines busy clinical services with purpose-designed rotation experiences to give you the experience you need to practice excellent pulmonary and critical care medicine. Our fellows enjoy a great balance of direct and indirect supervision, with increasing autonomy as their skills grow. Specific workshops and lectures increase your medical knowledge and procedural competence in a safe learning environment. There are excellent opportunities for research, including fourth-year opportunities for those wishing to pursue a physician-scientist career.

Track Examples

During fellowship training, fellows will experience a mix of pulmonary, critical care, inpatient, outpatient, clinical, academic, and research activities. Below are sample schedules illustrating the general structure of our fellowship.

Outpatient Pulmonary Clinic

 

Research Training

Test tubes sit in an collection trayThe faculty and fellows in our section are engaged in several areas of research. During the first year of fellowship we hold an Introduction to Research rotation that provides new fellows with a view of available research activities and mentors. Each fellow identifies a primary project and mentor, and during the second and third fellowship years has ample protected time to pursue this project. 

Each fellow class participates in research workshops plus their scheduled research rotations. For fellows interested in establishing a research career, support is offered to apply for a fourth year of training. 

All senior fellows present a section conference where they summarize their work. Each year many of our fellows also present their work for national audiences at conferences such as ATS, CHEST, and SCCM. Fellow projects frequently result in peer-reviewed publications.