Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

Rotaciones

Fellows receive new admissions/consults, triage patients, evaluate patients, present to the attending physician and provide documentation of consult, typically between 7:00 AM and 6:00 PM daily during inpatient rotations (ICU and pulmonary consults). They also are responsible for seeing established patients prior to the daily bedside rounds. Fellows work with specially trained nurses and technicians skilled in critical care instrumentation, respiratory function and laboratory medicine. There is no overnight call.

A typical breakdown of rotations per PGY year is as follows:

PGY-4

• ED ICU (8 weeks)
• Radiology (2 weeks)
• Pathology (2 weeks)
• Pulmonary Consultants (12 weeks)
• Medical ICU (16 weeks)
• Advanced Lung Disease Outpatient (4 weeks)
• Advanced Lung Disease Inpatient (4 weeks)
• Respiratory Therapy/Lung Function Testing (4 weeks)

PGY-5

• Bronchoscopy (4 weeks)
• Neuro ICU (4 weeks)
• Elective (6 weeks)
• Cardiothoracic ICU (4 weeks)
• Medical ICU (6 weeks) 
• Pulmonary Consults (8 weeks)
• Advanced Lung Disease Inpatient (4 weeks)
• Sleep Medicine (2 weeks)
• ED ICU (6 weeks)
• Trauma/Surgical ICU (4 weeks)
• Advanced Lung Disease Outpatient (4 weeks)

PGY-6

• Sleep (2 weeks)
• Medical ICU (4 weeks)
• Advanced Lung Disease Outpatient (4 weeks)
• Advanced Lung Disease Inpatient (4 weeks)
• Pre-Boards Reading Period (4 weeks)
• ED ICU (4 weeks)
• Elective (20 weeks)
• Neuro ICU (4 weeks)
• Pulmonary Consults (6 weeks)

Conferences

Fellows develop teaching skills necessary to educate patients, families, medical students and residents by attending conferences and faculty development seminars, completing online lessons and observing experienced attending physicians in a teaching environment.

Conferences include:

• Critical Conference
• Pulmonary Radiology Case Conference
• Interstitial Lung Disease Conference
• Internal Medicine Grand Rounds
• Pulmonary Core Curriculum Conference, including M&M and Journal Clubs
• Critical Care Conference
• Airway management Conference
• Pulmonary thromboembolism Conference
• Chest Tumor Board Conference

We provide fully funded Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) training and Emergency Neurological Life Support (ENLS) training.

Investigación

Our fellows are required to participate in at least one research project during their time as fellows, with the goal of presenting and publishing their findings.

BUMC is a major center for clinical research. Clinical research opportunities are available in both the outpatient and inpatient settings, as well as the Seeger Surgical Simulation Center. Clinical research requires the successful completion of educational prerequisites from Baylor University Medical Center's institutional review board (IRB), as well as approval process of the IRB.

Fellows are mentored by experienced clinicians during their time in fellowship, and present every year at conferences such as CHEST, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and American Thoracic Society (ATS), as well as at transplant-related conferences such as the American Transplant Congress (ATC) and the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT).