Pulmonary Disease Fellowship Program
The two-year Pulmonary Disease Fellowship program at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine provides the 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.
The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
1924 Alcoa Highway
Box U-114
Knoxville, TN 37920
Phone (865) 305-6324
Fax (865) 305-9144