Curriculum

Year One

• Focus on development of clinical skills and bedside management of cases in the pulmonary service.
• Assist in all diagnostic procedures and be actively involved in the pulmonary function.
• Learn the basics of pulmonary diseases through participation in daily rounds, consultations, and lectures.
• Assist with invasive procedures, including bronchoscopy, right heart catheterization, thoracentesis, tunneled pleural catheters, bronchoscopic lung volume reduction, tumor debulking, percutaneous tracheostomy, and chest tube insertion.
• One month rotation in pulmonary physiology and physiological testing in the pulmonary diagnostic facility.
• Exposure of four months on the general floor service.
• Rotations in sleep disorders.
• Participation in weekly review of selected texts and articles in Pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, weekly didactics

Year Two

• More flexibility with three months of out-service time for electives in immunology, nuclear medicine, pathology, pediatric pulmonary disease, pulmonary neoplasms, respiratory therapy management, or sleep disorders.
• Retain the option to repeat service in pulmonary function or exercise physiology.
• Completion of a research project and prepared an article suitable for publishing in a major journal.
• Participation in pulmonary medicine symposia presentations once or twice a year.
• Participation in weekly review of selected texts and articles in Pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, weekly didactics.

Year Three/Critical Care

• Strictly dedicated to the evaluation and management of critically ill patients in the ICU’s.
• Exposure to a wide variety of illnesses, e.g., ARDS, post-bypass, neurotrauma and sepsis.
• In-depth experience in ventilator management.
• Four months of electives to gain experience for individual learning needs.
• Participation in weekly review of selected texts and articles in Pulmonary disease and critical care medicine, weekly didactics

Continuity Clinic

Fellows each spend ½ day per week in their continuity clinic located within Genesee Lung Associates, PC., Grand Blanc, MI. The clinic is staffed by a core ambulatory preceptor. Fellows serve as the primary pulmonologist for their own patient panel.