Fellows are excused one-day per month for educational sessions which are comprised of case-based lectures and didactics, journal clubs, board review and simulation sessions as well as focused workshops for academic career development.
Pulmonary Mechanics I - elastic forces, volumes, gas flow and resistance
Pulmonary Mechanics II - the ventilated patient
PFT's 101- ATS criteria and board essentials
Advanced PFT workshop
Central control of respiration
CPET talk and interactive interpretation
Ventilator Management
Rescue strategies for hypoxemia, severe asthma
Physiology of obstructive lung disease
Physiology of NIPPV
ARDS History and classification
Pathobiology and mechanisms of ARDS
Mimics of ARDS
Diagnosis and management of VAP, "The Master" Ventilator Management
The Pathobiology & (Brief) Histology of Pulmonary PH
WHO Classification/Diagnosis of Pulmonary Hypertension
Pharmacologic Therapies for Pulmonary Hypertension
Indications and Interpretation of the Right Heart Catheterization
HAPE
The Acute Right Heart Syndrome
The Diagnosis and Management of Pulmonary Embolism
HHT/PVOD/Schistosomiasis
Approach to the ILD patient
CTD-ILD
Eosinophilic lung disease
Pulmonary vasculitis
Occupational Exposures
Sarcoidosis
Chronic Beryllium
LAM/Pulmonary Langerhans
Eponym diseases
Transplant work-up, decisions, and contraindications
Immunosuppressional and the transplant lifecycle
Infectious complications in transplant - cases
Critical care and the transplant patient - cases
Surgical issues with Lung Transplant
Pharmaology of transplant immunosuppressants
Lung Cancer - the Basics
Lung Cancer Screening
Lung Cancer Cases: Diagnosis, Management, and Therapy
Asthma
Bronchiolitis
COPD
Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Pathogenesis and disease mechanisms and presentation of cystic fibrosis
Diagnosis of CF and management of pulmonary disease
Management of non-pulmonary aspects of CF and transplant
Interactive demonstration and trial of airway clearance devices and case-based discussion of inpatient management
Congenital lung disease
Non-CF bronchiectasis diagnosis and management
PSG Interpretation (Tsai)
Non-sleep disordered breathing issues: parasomnias and RLS