Curriculum
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Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship
Education overview
Clinical training
During your clinical training in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, the direct supervision of a Mayo Clinic physician consultant helps you make the most of your educational experiences while ensuring the best quality of patient care delivery.
You gain experience in:
- Clinical pulmonary medicine
- Critical care medicine
- Flexible fiber-optic bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound
- Pulmonary function tests
- Procedures related to pulmonary and critical care medicine
Rotation schedule
A typical rotation will vary based on the clinical track and includes the following. The amount of time spent in each rotation will depend on the clinical track.
- Outpatient consultations
- Bronchoscopy
- Hospital inpatient services
- Critical care medicine
- Pulmonary function and exercise testing
- Sleep disorders laboratory
- Pleural service and interventional pulmonology
- Electives
- Research
See sample rotation schedules for the three years of fellowship:
First year
| Rotation | Block |
|---|---|
| Orientation and bootcamp | 1 |
| Pulmonary clinic | 2 |
| Pleural hospital consults | 3 |
| Pulmonary hospital consults | 4 |
| MICU | 5 |
| Research | 6 |
| SICU | 7 |
| Pulmonary function lab | 8 |
| Mixed ICU | 9 |
| Sleep | 10 |
| MICU | 11 |
| Bronchoscopy | 12 |
Second year
| Rotation | Block |
|---|---|
| Mixed ICU | 1 |
| Research | 2 - 12 |
Third year
| Rotation | Block |
|---|---|
| Elective | 1 |
| MICU Subconsultant/Research | 2 |
| SMH bronchoscopy senior | 3 |
| Selective ICU | 4 |
| Elective | 5 |
| CCU | 6 |
| MICU Subconsultant/Research | 7 |
| Elective ICU | 8 |
| Senior - Gonda bronchoscopy/Pleural procedures | 9 |
| Pulmonary clinic | 10 |
| Chest hospital service subconsultant | 11 |
| Elective | 12 |
Call frequency
Your call schedule is different for each track rotation. Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science follows the recommendations of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
Moonlighting
You may moonlight with program director approval. Moonlighting should not interfere with the required learning and must not violate the duty-hour rules of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or visa regulations.
Teaching opportunities
Opportunities are available for teaching rotating residents and medical students. Also, fellows are given the opportunity to participate in educational workshops to improve teaching skills.
Evaluation
To ensure that you acquire adequate knowledge and develop your technical skills, your performance is monitored carefully during the course of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and feedback is offered regularly. Formal evaluation is conducted by a supervising faculty member after each clinical rotation and reviewed with the program director. In addition, you regularly evaluate the faculty to confirm that your educational needs are being met.
There is a lot of flexibility that allows us to learn from different experts in all areas of critical care and pulmonary medicine. Program leadership really strive to give us what we want and need for our future careers, and work with each fellow to ensure they have what they want to become excellent intensivists.
Jamie Felzer, M.D.
Pulmonary and Critical Care fellow