Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Fellowship Programs
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The mission of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine program is to develop outstanding pulmonary and critical care medicine physicians. On the completion of their fellowship, all graduates should be highly qualified to practice pulmonary and critical care medicine competently and independently. Research-track graduates should understand their research area and methods, have presented and published, be equipped to obtain an early career grant and be prepared to assume a successful academic leadership faculty position. Clinical-track graduates should be equipped to become leaders in the clinical arena, which includes being a leading clinician, consultant, teacher, and scholar and enhancing the programs to which they belong with leadership and life-long improvement.
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Clinical rotations are offered at a variety of sites in the city including the University Hospital, Jesse Brown VA Hospital, and AMITA.
All of our fellows rotate through a very active interventional pulmonary service that offers first-rate procedural training in bronchoscopy (flexible and rigid), endobronchial ultrasound, bedside tracheostomy and PEG tube placement, temporary and long-term chest tube placement, bronchial thermoplasty, medical pleuroscopy, transthoracic needle aspiration, and comprehensive ultrasound assessment.
The University of Illinois hosts the only School of Public Health in the city affording fellows an opportunity to obtain a Masters in Public Health Degree (MPH) during their time here.
Divisional leadership continually promotes collaborative team dynamics and wellness events in a variety of ways. These are fun off-campus social events such as “happy hour” get-togethers, basketball games, and a yearly ICU volleyball tournament.