The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Department of Medicine Fellowship Programs - Pulmonary Disease
The two-year
Pulmonary Disease Fellowship program at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine provides the internal medicine
residency program graduate with the opportunity to obtain the education,
training, clinical skills, and research experience necessary to
become an outstanding and compassionate pulmonary consultant and
to pursue a clinical academic career or a clinical practice in pulmonary
medicine. With a fellow to faculty ratio of one to four, the pulmonary
fellow receives a great deal of individual attention and training
in a program tailored to meet the professional goals of the fellow. During inpatient
training at the University of Tennessee Medical Center, a tertiary referral center serving the entire East Tennessee region,
the fellow treats the entire gamut of pulmonary disorders. Rotations
include:
- Inpatient consult service
- Applied pulmonary physiology,
- Sleep medicine,
- Pulmonary rehabilitation,
- Chest radiology,
- Critical
care medicine,
- Surgical critical care
- Cardiothoracic surgery.
Fellows spend one month at Vanderbilt University studying lung transplantation
and cystic fibrosis. Ambulatory training takes place both in the
hospital chest clinics and in the busy offices of the pulmonary
faculty private practice, with the fellow seeing a panel of his/her
own patients in continuity clinic. Throughout the fellowship, the
fellow works closely with a research mentor on a research project
of the fellow's choosing. The well-structured research curriculum
is designed to accommodate both the novice and experienced researcher.
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