Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

 

Required Rotations

The ACGME requires at least six months of medical and three months of non-medical critical care experience. Schedules may be individualized to accommodate individual interests while ensuring that these requirements are met without exceeding the 15-month critical care limit.

Required rotations include:

The ACGME also requires at least three months of non-medical ICU experience. This requirement is always achieved, with some individual choice, through the SICU rotation, the transplant rotation, the neurology ICU sections of the MICU at both Baylor Scott & White and the VA, and the PGY-5 and -6 consultative function in the cardiothoracic surgery ICU during MICU Fellow B rotations.

Elective Rotations

Each fellow has two elective months in the second year, and four and a half months in the third year. Any or all of this time may be used in additional months of research.

Fellows have recently chosen two-to-four-week experiences in advanced sleep, interventional pulmonology, cardiothoracic surgery, allergy-immunology, tracheostomy care (ENT), pulmonary ambulatory care clinic, interventional radiology, pediatric ICU and burns.

Fellows may structure other electives, such as pulmonary hypertension, with the guidance and approval of the program director, associate program director and mentoring faculty.

PGY-4

PGY-5

PGY-6

There are at least three weekly division conferences, attended by faculty and fellows. On a monthly basis, averaged over a year, these include:

Additional conferences addressing medical humanities, faculty development, business practices and special invited speakers are included. Fellows are also expected to attend weekly internal medicine grand rounds.

Fellows are also required to present at current case conferences, journal clubs and evidenced-based medicine reviews.

Each fellow has at least two months per year of research time. Three months are required in the first year, and elective time in years PGY-5 and PGY-6 may be added to the two required months in those years.

Interaction with faculty mentors must be demonstrated with progress towards a body of work that may be submitted for presentation at a national specialty meeting and/or publication. Completion of at least one project which is submitted for national presentation is required during the fellowship.