The Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship at the Augusta University is a 3-year training program granting Board eligibility in both pulmonary and critical care.
Each year we choose 3-4 fellows to join our program for a total of 10 fellows in training at any given time.
Our division has 12 full time clinical faculty members (9 at AU and 3 at VAMC) who are board certified in Pulmonary or Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine. Four faculty are board certified in Sleep Disorders and one faculty is board certified in Interventional Pulmonology. We also have 4 full time PhD research faculty members and additional PhD research associates.
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Rotations are generally 4 weeks in duration and include clinical and elective rotations. The clinical rotations are divided between the Augusta University 4-ICU, VA Medical/Surgical ICU, Augusta University Pulmonary consult service, and VA Pulmonary consults service. Fellows typically have 12 months for research and elective training and 24 months of clinical training divided between MCG and the VAMC. Fellows rotate on the trauma service at Augusta University or the Joseph M. Still burn center one month during their fellowship.
During their three years of training, fellows rotate through different pulmonary subspecialty clinics during their outpatient block, that includes: ILD/ Sarcoidosis, Non-CF bronchiectasis/Non-Tuberculous mycobacterium clinic, Pulmonary Hypertension clinic, COPD/Alpha-1 anti trypsin clinic/Asthma clinic, Sleep, Chronic Ventilator Management clinic, Interventional Pulmonary Clinic, HHT clinic, Adult Cystic fibrosis clinic, exposing them to a wide broad different pathologies, management of common pulmonary outpatient disease, and also learn to work in a multidisciplinary team, as they work closely with specialty clinic nurse coordinators, respiratory therapist, registered dietitian, social work, pharmacist, etc.
July & August (Monday - Friday)
Critical Care Ultrasound Training (monthly)
Department of Medicine "DOM" Grand Rounds (weekly)
Structured Reading Program "SRP" Conference (weekly)