Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship

To this end, the fellowship program director and key clinical faculty have developed a competency-based, accredited educational curriculum which strictly adheres to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) “General Program Requirements for Fellowship Education in the Subspecialties of Internal Medicine” and the “Program Requirements for Fellowship Education in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine”.

• Expert clinicians who are recognized by their peers for excellence in the cognitive and technical dimensions of both pulmonary and critical care medicine. This will include structured exposure to a wide variety of Pulmonology sub-specialties in an outpatient setting including interstitial lung diseases, pulmonary hypertension, pleural diseases, lung cancer, and sleep medicine. Given the breadth of these experiences, we anticipate that graduating fellows will score in the top 25% on pulmonary and critical care medicine in-service exams.
• Committed academicians who understand that one responsibility of physicians is to contribute to the fields of pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine through participation in scholarly activity. Each fellow will, by the time of graduation, complete one scholarly activity (publishing a peer-reviewed manuscript, presenting an evidence-based conference, or creating enduring curriculum).
• Leaders in pulmonary and/or critical care medicine professional societies. Each fellow will attend at least one professional society meeting during their training.
• Transformative doctors who promote health and improve patient outcomes through structured quality improvement (QI) and patient safety (PS) activities. Each fellow will graduate having participated in a mentored QI/PS project designed to align with institutional goals of providing high-value care and/or improving patient safety.
• Practitioners of Ignatian values given that pulmonary diseases and critical illness frequently lead to end of life care wherein the Jesuit value Cura personalis is of the utmost importance. Graduating fellows will complete structured palliative care training and achieve an “Independent” proficiency evaluation in this area.
• Proficient proceduralists as evidenced by exposure to a breadth of specialty-specific procedures performed at volumes greater than the majority of comparable training programs, with specific emphasis on providing qualitative assessments of procedural competency. Fellows will receive at least 50 iterations of written objective feedback on their bronchoscopy skills during a three-year training program.