Teaching Conferences and Facilities

There is a wide range of teaching conferences including weekly two-hour clinical and didactic pulmonary grand rounds, weekly rounds with the program director, case review conferences on pathology, pulmonary function testing and exercise testing and instructional sessions on radiographic interpretation in occupational lung disease with the program director who has a professorial appointment in occupational medicine and is certified by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as an expert. Fellows present and discuss at these conferences and are expected to submit at least one abstract for presentation at a national meeting and one research paper for publication each year. A major research interest of the service is development and application of clinical pulmonary function testing and basic and clinical cardiorespiratory exercise responses. We have state-of-the-art laboratories in these areas. The diverse patient experience provides ample opportunity for clinical research. Fellows obtain experience in a major new area of pulmonary medicine, early lung cancer detection, using low dose CT scan through the program director�s federally funded project to screen high risk subjects, one of the largest such projects in the world.