Program Curriculum
The three-year curriculum is designed and individualized to help fellows gain the clinical, leadership, and research experience that is best suited to their career goals. Our expert faculty, diversity of patient populations and state of the art facilities provide fellows with outstanding exposure and experience during their clinical training months. Hands-on experience, advanced simulation and ultrasound training, a challenging didactic program and fellow-tailored research/elective blocks are integral to our training program.
The clinical training emphasizes the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic respiratory diseases, with emphasis on the practical application of pulmonary physiological and biologic principles to all aspects of critical care, consultative chest medicine, rehabilitation, pulmonary hypertension, lung cancer, and sleep medicine. During pulmonary blocks, fellows will evaluate and manage a breadth of common and rare pulmonary illnesses, learn pulmonary and sleep physiology and develop expertise in advanced pulmonary procedures. During critical care blocks, fellows will manage our intensive care units gaining experience in all aspects of critical care management, end of life care, ultrasonography and procedures.
Year 1
The first year is dedicated to developing the foundations of clinical training in pulmonary and critical care medicine and subspecialty critical care medicine. This includes training in the management of patients in surgical intensive care/trauma, neuro-critical care, cardiac critical care and palliative care medicine.
Year 2
During the second year of fellowship, fellows further their clinical expertise in pulmonary medicine with rotations on pulmonary subspecialty services, including cystic fibrosis, pulmonary physiology and sleep medicine. Fellows in their second year also focus on scholarly activities and work closely with mentors to develop an individualized pathway to meet their career goals.
Year 3
The goal of the third year is to develop clinical expertise in a specific area of a fellow’s choosing, complete scholarly activity and build on educational and leadership skills.
An equally important aspect of our program is training fellows to independently and expertly perform a vast array of pulmonary and critical care procedures. Our training program includes in-depth preparation in:
- Intubation with video and direct laryngoscopy
- Management of the difficult airway
- Flexible bronchoscopy
- Endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)
- Short and long-term chest thoracostomy tube insertion and maintenance
- Pleurodesis and pleural biopsy
- Critical Care Ultrasonography/Point-of-care ultrasonography
- Interpretation of pulmonary function tests, airway responsiveness testing and cardiopulmonary exercise testing
- Pulmonary rehabilitation
- Treatment of primary and secondary pulmonary hypertension
- Percutaneous Tracheostomies
A unique aspect of our program is the pairing of a comprehensive foundation of clinical training with an individualized pathway for career development. Fellows are deeply engaged in learning research, quality improvement, teaching and leadership skills. We have an expectation that our fellows participate in scholarly projects; fellows routinely present their research at national meetings and publish in peer-reviewed journals. Our goal is to help our fellows succeed and become leaders in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Many of our graduates have gone on to become innovative clinician-educators and leaders in medical education and hospital administration.
Clinical Rotations
Our broad clinical rotations offer fellows the opportunity to work with subspecialty experts across the Mount Sinai Health System. Each clinical rotation includes high volumes and complex cases, which provides for extensive educational, hands-on clinical training and encourages exploring research opportunities.
Elective Opportunities
- Thoracic Radiology
- Anesthesiology
- Thoracic Surgery
- Thoracic Oncology
- Coronary Care Unit
- Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit
- Medical simulation
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Offsite electives (non-tuberculous mycobacteria service at National Jewish, lung transplant, interventional pulmonology)
Conferences
Our fellows are deeply engaged in a curriculum that incorporates innovative educational techniques, including multidisciplinary learning, simulation and hands-on training. During your training, you will participate in a wide range of on-site, system-wide and national conferences. Academic half day provides a strong backbone to our conference structure and enables fellows to be protected from clinical responsibilities and focus on learning.
Unique Programs/ Education
Contact Us
Geraldine Vargas Program Coordinator Tel: 212-523-3610 Fax: 212-523-3609 geraldine.vargas@mountsinai.org
Mount Sinai Morningside Ambulatory Care Center, S&R 13 440 West 114th Street New York, NY 10025