Multidisciplinary Core Curriculum

• Includes lectures given by our PCCM, medical subspecialty, surgical, neurological and emergency medicine faculty colleagues throughout the year in both pulmonary disease and critical care medicine topics.

• Special lecture series:

  • Ambulatory lecture series

  • Palliative care lecture series

  • Quality and patient safety lecture series and interactive curriculum

  • Sleep medicine lecture series

• Simulations/workshops

  • Fresh tissue and simulation skills sessions

  • Brain death workshop with simulation

  • Southern California point-of-care-ultrasound course

  • EBUS course

  • VENT Course

  • Cardio Pulmonary Exercise Symposium

• Conferences

  • Grand rounds

  • Journal club

  • Radiology conference

  • Pathology conference

  • Multidisciplinary case conference

  • Morbidity and mortality review

  • Physiology conference

  • Thoracic oncology conference (“tumor board”)

  • Multidisciplinary ILD conference

  • Transplant Journal Club

  • Lung Transplant Conference

• Research

  • All fellows will participate in one original research project.  The research program is headed by Dr. Jan Liebler. 

  • Each fellow is paired with a research mentor during their first year of fellowship and together they generate a research project that will extend throughout the duration of the fellowship.

  • Efforts are made to allow fellows to pursue projects that are aligned with their eventual career goals.

  • Fellows are encouraged to present their research findings at regional and national conferences.