Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship

Our fellowship training program is dedicated to developing the next generation of physician leaders in pulmonary and critical care medicine, who will advance the frontiers of patient care, biomedical research, and industry.

We are a community that values commitment to clinical and academic excellence, respect, compassion, humility, and a passion for learning and growth. During the recruitment process, our program uses strategies such as multi-faceted application review and structured interviews to ensure we get to know each applicant as a person and a future colleague..  

We offer two distinct training pathways in our Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship.  The training pathways share a common foundation of clinical experiences and education, with clinical training at the cutting edge of pulmonary and critical care medicine, including a broad exposure to critical care settings/models, and world-class programs in lung transplant, interstitial lung disease, interventional pulmonary, pulmonary hypertension, home-assisted ventilation, advanced consultative medicine, and general pulmonary. Our Research Scholar and Clinical Scholar diverge to meet the career goals and aspirations.

Training Pathways

Our two training pathways are as follows:

1. Research Scholar – This pathway is for trainees interested in careers with a major focus on research. This includes trainees interested in basic and translational science, clinical epidemiology, and health services research. This pathway includes 18 months of in-depth clinical training and two years of dedicated research time (3.5 years total). Depending on career path, research scholar fellows may complete a Master’s Degree at the Perelman School of Medicine as part of their training.
2. Clinical Scholar – This pathway is for trainees interested in clinical careers, with a focus on clinical leadership, medical education, or health system sciences. This pathway includes the same 18 months of in-depth clinical training as the Research Scholar fellows, with an additional 6 months of clinical elective time, and 12 months of scholarly time (3 years total). Depending on area of interest, clinician scholar fellows may complete training programs/pathways in medical education, health equity, quality improvement and patient safety, or in a subspecialty clinical area (ultrasound, non-invasive ventilation, pulmonary hypertension, advanced bronchoscopy, etc.