Outpatient Clinic

The intent of the outpatient clinic rotation is to provide fellows the opportunity to manage and provide continuity of care for outpatients with a wide spectrum of pulmonary diseases.

Clinics are based at one of three site – ACMC, CPMC Pacific Campus, and St. Lukes Hospital. Each fellow is assigned to one of these clinics and will rotate amongst them on a yearly basis. The ACMC and St. Lukes Hospital outpatient pulmonary fellow clinics are every Tuesday afternoon. The fellow assigned to the CPMC clinic will join an attending physician at their private practice office on a weekly basis The goal is to provide different outpatient experiences in different office settings that will provide the fellows with a wide variety of exposure to outpatient pulmonary medicine.

Fellows are scheduled to see four to five patients in each clinic. It will be imperative that the fellows arrive on time for their clinic and that any absences (i.e. vacation or conferences) are arranged well in advance so that patients are not scheduled during those times. Fellows will be closely supervised by the faculty physician.

The other outpatient experience for the fellows are the subspecialty clinics. These consist of a pulmonary hypertension clinic on Thursday afternoon and a cystic fibrosis clinic on Friday afternoon. A lung nodule clinic, a lung cancer clinic, and an advanced lung disease clinic are all in development.