Curriculum

Our categorical fellows will study these areas over their fellowship tenure through clinical inpatient and outpatient exposure, weekly and monthly didactics including interdivisional conferences and grand rounds, symposia/national conferences, online resources, self-study, board review and journal clubs, with a foundation of daily bedside rounds and teaching. Our fellows enjoy a broad-based clinical education across the spectrum of Pulmonology as well as high-acuity, diverse subspecialty critical care education.

Resources are provided using Canvas Learning Management System. Fellows have full access to the robust medical resources of the Texas Medical Center Library as well other local resources.

Pulmonary Disease Curriculum

• Memorial Hermann -TMC Pulmonary Consultation
  • Pulmonary Disease Management
  • Bronchoscopy for diagnosis and treatment
  • Pleural Procedures
• Memorial Hermann- TMC Interventional Pulmonary Consultation
  • Advanced bronchoscopy
    • Endobronchial Ultrasound
    • Bronchoscopy biopsy/cryobiopsy
  • Pleural Procedures
    • Thoracentesis
    • Tunneled pleural catheters
    • Chest tubes
  • Percutaneous Tracheostomy
• Lyndon B. Johnson Pulmonary Consultation
  • Pulmonary Disease Management
  • Bronchoscopy for diagnosis and treatment
  • Advanced bronchoscopy
    • Endobronchial Ultrasound
  • Pleural Procedures
    • Thoracentesis
    • Tunneled pleural catheters
    • Chest tubes
  • Medical Pleuroscopy
• MD Anderson Cancer Center Pulmonary Consultation
  • Pulmonary Disease Management
  • Bronchoscopy for diagnosis and treatment
  • Pleural Procedures
    • Thoracentesis
    • Tunneled pleural catheters
    • Chest tubes
• MD Anderson Cancer Center Interventional Pulmonary
  • Outpatient Interventional Pulmonary Rotation
  • Acute Interventional Pulmonary Rotation
• Kindred Hospital
  • Inpatient Pulmonary Rehabilitation
• Ambulatory Rotation
  • Outpatient Pulmonary Rehabilitation
  • Lung Transplant Clinic
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Pulmonary Clinic
  • UT Physicians Subspecialty Pulmonary clinics

Critical Care Medicine Curriculum

• Memorial Hermann- TMC
  • Medical Intensive Care – Gold
    • High acuity MICU with Internal Medicine Residents and McGovern MSIV Medical Students
  • Medical Intensive Care – Red
    • High acuity MICU with Advanced Practice Providers
  • Transplant Surgical Care Unit (Abdominal Transplant)
    • Liver and Kidney Transplantation
  • Heart & Vascular Institute
    • Cardiac Care Unit
      • Post-STEMI Care
      • Percutaneous valves and coronary interventions
      • Mechanical Circulatory Support
    • Cardiovascular Surgery ICU
      • High acuity surgical patients
        • Cardiac surgery with CABG and valve
        • Aortic aneurysm and dissection repair
        • Thoracic surgery patients
      • Vascular surgery/Endovascular patients
    • Heart Failure ICU
      • Heart and Lung Transplantation
      • Percutaneous and durable Ventricular assist devices
      • Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
      • Veno-venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
      • Cardiac surgery patients
  • Night Float (Medical and HVI units )
• Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital (Harris Health System)
  • Medical Intensive Care Unit
    • High acuity MICU with Internal Medicine Residents and McGovern MSIV Medical Students
  • Night Float (Medical and Surgical ICU)

Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Curriculum

• Didactics on ultrasound
• Bootcamp
• Bedside teaching and learning

Sleep Medicine for PCCM Fellows Curriculum

• Memorial Hermann- TMC Sleep Disorders Center
• UT Physicians Sleep clinic
• Smith clinic (Harris Health)

Palliative Care / End of Life Curriculum

• Collaboration with Supportive Medicine in the ICUs
• Didactics on family meetings, code status, ethics and withdrawing support