Conference Schedule
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program

Weekly conference, held on Wednesday mornings, is protected time for fellows and contains a variety of learning opportunities including:

• Summer boot camp: Core lecture series, interactive simulations, and workshops focused on basic pulmonary and critical care concepts and procedures (central line insertion, intraosseous catheter insertion, thoracentesis/chest tube placement, endotracheal intubation, bronchoscopy). This series is intended to give incoming fellows an introduction to commonly seen conditions and procedures performed in the ICU and in the bronchoscopy suite.


• Faculty lectures: In-depth review of pulmonary and critical care topics, by PCCM faculty and those outside our division.


• Ultrasound Conference: Review and discussion of ultrasound images captured by pulmonary and critical care fellows and stored in Qpath. The conference is led by our nationally recognized ultrasound faculty and occurs twice a month.


• Case Conference: Fellow-driven presentations and discussions of interesting and educational cases.


• Journal Club: Fellows present a recent article, reviewing the background, methodology and results. Each journal club is mentored by a faculty member with expertise in biostatistics and epidemiology.


• MICU M&M: This is a unique peer-review of mortality and morbidity in the University Hospital MICU and occurs monthly


• Joint conferences with other departments and divisions occur throughout the year

Sample Monthly Schedule

Other Conferences:

• Medicine Grand Rounds – weekly


• Medicine Case Conference - weekly


• Medicine Morbidity and Mortality - monthly


• Tuberculosis Grand Rounds – every 2 weeks


• Thoracic Tumor Board (schedule varies depending on clinical site)