Program Overview

The Jane & Leonard Korman Respiratory Institute and the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia house an outstanding fellowship program in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine.  This program has a long-standing tradition of excellence and a reputation for graduating superior clinicians, outstanding educators, and innovative researchers. The program is supported by the Sidney Kimmel Medical College, established in 1824, and is one of the largest private medical colleges in the United States.

Armed with a new partnership with National Jewish Health (Denver), new facilities, a growing faculty and staff, new research space, and expanding training opportunities, we aim not only to prepare qualified individuals as proficient clinicians with critical rigor, but to tailor training to fit candidate needs to ensure success in any career path of their choice.  We understand medicine will not advance without discovery through research, and this justifies our renewed interest in providing trainees exposure to a strong clinical trials enterprise and translational research experiences to enhance scholarship and chances for success in academia.  Accordingly, fellows will be trained to critically review scientific literature as well as design and execute clinical and/or translational research.  

By the end of the training period, fellows will be skilled in:

• Team-based and patient-centered care
• Managing difficult pulmonary diseases and general critical care problems
• Performing complex bronchoscopy and related procedures
• Critical care procedures and ultrasound
• Conducting clinical trials or basic science research

This is a three-year program (with optional additional years for research) leading to eligibility for board certification in pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine. The majority of the training experience is at Sidney Kimmel Medical College and its University Hospital, which is located in Center City Philadelphia.

This highly flexible program enables individuals to achieve his or her personal training goals while fulfilling requirements for board certification in pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine. The division claims 100% pass rate for graduating fellows in both ABIM pulmonary and critical care medicine. The first 12 months are devoted primarily to clinical training, with time divided between pulmonary medicine, medical and surgical critical care, chest radiology, anesthesia and the pulmonary function lab.

The remaining requirements for board certification in pulmonary medicine and critical care are arranged to suit individual training goals throughout the second and third years. A number of elective clinical rotations focusing on specialized areas of interest in pulmonary medicine and critical care are also offered. Our division offers multidisciplinary research training opportunities in several areas of lung biology ranging from the study of lung development and aging to acute and chronic lung injury, while emphasizing disease modeling, genetic engineering, metabolic interventions.  Specific features of the clinical training program and the research training program are available. It is emphasized that the training experience is designed to help the trainee develop a scholarly approach to clinical problems and to laboratory or clinical investigation. Acceptance into the fellowship training program is very competitive, with over 500 applicants for five slots per year. 

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