Training Overview
Yearly breakdown
- 6 months inpatient service
- 3 months outpatient service
- 1 month of attending responsibilities
- 1 month of elective time
- 1 month of vacation
- Built-in time for research and procedures throughout the year
- Lung Transplant Didactics
- Monthly feedback sessions with program director
Fellow Opportunities:
- Spend time on the inpatient transplant service helping the attending with pre and post lung transplant management
- Help trainees and attendings perofrm procedures
- Learn to triage outside transfer requests for transplant evaluation
- Review donor offers
- Present at the weekly Lung Transplant Selection Committee Meeting
- Prepare quarterly M&M cases
- Expected to work 1 weekend per month (dates flexible)
- Follow cohort patients in clinic
- Present at national and international transplant conferences
Elective Options:
- Cardiothoracic ICU (CTICU)
- Donor Management elective
- Immunogenetics Elective and lecture series
- Pathology
- Transplant Infectious Disease
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Interventional Pulmonology
Outpatient Time
- Opportunity to provide longitudinal follow up care for lung transplant recipients
- Learn management of immunosuppression and common post transplant issues
- Perform outpatient surveillance bronchoscopies
- Opportunity to participate in academic projects based on interest
- Opportunity to attend subspecialty clinics based on interest, including COPD, pulmonary hypertension, interstitial lung disease, and cystic fibrosis