Curriculum

The Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship is a three-year program that trains our fellows for successful careers.

Education is an important part of training and there is a schedule of core curriculum lectures, board review sessions, pro:con debates on clinical topics between dyads of fellows and faculty members, journal clubs, quality improvement (revised M&M) and research conferences. Simulations, didactics and resident and student teaching on clinical services are all part of the curriculum.

The Division is responsible for teaching foundational sciences to pre-clinical medical students and there are numerous small group knowledge and clinical skills sessions for fellows to facilitate as part of that course.

Fellows desiring a post-graduate certificate in clinical education may apply for the two-year Health Educators and Academic Leaders, which will require additional work outside the scope of the fellowship program.

At the completion of the three-year fellowship program, trainees are eligible to sit for Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine boards.

Our five-year first-time taker pass rate for Pulmonary Disease boards is 100 percent and 100 percent for Critical Care.

Most of our graduates have gone on to private practice but all have retained a desire to be involved in resident and student teaching based in part on their educational experience.

The mix of clinical experiences and didactics provided in this program provides excellent training for the subspecialist in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.