Outpatient Clinics

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

As is shown on the rotation schedule, fellows will alternate six months of rotations at CPMC and three months of rotations at ACMC throughout their fellowship. The fellow working at ACMC at that time will attend the outpatient pulmonary clinic there every Tuesday afternoon. Those fellows working at CPMC will join an attending physician at their private practice office on a weekly basis for a six-month period of time. When the fellows return to CPMC for their next six-month rotation their outpatient experience will change to a different location. The hope is that we will be able to provide a handful of different outpatient experiences in different office settings that will provide the fellows with a wide variety of exposure to outpatient pulmonary medicine.

For this new outpatient format to work, fellows will be scheduled to see four to five patients in one afternoon. 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 is the monthly series of specialty clinics at CPMC under the supervision of Dr. Noreen Henig. These clinics occur on the fourth week of every month. One fellow will be designated to participate in these clinics, but other fellows may attend if feasible. The specialty clinics consist of an alpha-1 clinic (caring for patients with -1AT deficiency) on Monday afternoon, a pulmonary hypertension clinic on Thursday afternoon, and a cystic fibrosis clinic on Friday afternoon.