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