Welcome Letter

Welcome to the PCCM Fellowship Program at the University of Southern California.  Our fellowship program is designed to train expert clinicians who are equipped to provide exceptional care for their patients.  Practicing in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, we offer a three year training program with combined clinical and research training in a rich and diverse learning environment.  Our three teaching sites – Los Angeles County General, Keck Medical Center and Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center – provide broad-based exposure to varied patient populations with a wide spectrum of disease states.

 Our Critical Care training encompasses experience in advanced mechanical ventilator management, critical care procedures including percutaneous tracheostomy and right heart catheterization, bedside critical care ultrasound, ARDS salvage therapies, and mechanical circulatory support device management.  Our Pulmonary Disease training includes rotations through our subspecialty pulmonary programs including Cystic Fibrosis, Pulmonary Hypertension, Pulmonary Transplant, Sleep Medicine, Advanced Bronchoscopy and Interventional Pulmonary Procedures.  We also have very active consultation and outpatient clinic services with exposure to various pulmonary pathologies and advanced lung disease.  Fellows will also develop experience in interpreting pulmonary function tests and cardiopulmonary exercise tests.

 Fellows are also exposed to a wide spectrum and volume of procedural skills training as part of their patient care duties, and have both fresh tissue and simulation skills sessions throughout their fellowship. All fellows are scheduled to attend bi-annual half-day skills workshops in which they practice key procedures such as central lines, chest tube insertions, intubations, percutaneous tracheostomy, intraosseous access, pleural procedures and management of difficult airways. Fellows also attend the Southern California point-of-care-ultrasound course as well as an EBUS training program in the course of their training. The Division is also committed to didactic teaching with daily conferences including regularly scheduled grand rounds, journal club, radiology, pathology, infectious disease, morbidity and mortality review, Quality and Patient Safety and physiology conferences.

We appreciate your interest in our program and thank you for your time.

May Lee, MD
PCCM Fellowship Program Director
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine