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 perform 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