Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program
Conferences
There are regularly scheduled conferences every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday at noon at CPMC. Fellows located at ACMC will also take part in these conferences via teleconference.- Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Case-Based Conference
- Core Curriculum Conference
- ICU Conference
- Research Conference
- Journal Club
- PFT / Exercise Testing Conference
- Physiology Conference
- Bronchoscopy Conference
- Division Meeting
- Medicine House Staff Noon Conference
- UCSF Pulmonary Physiology Seminar
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Case-Based Conference
Weekly: Every Thursday 12:00 – 1:00pm
Pulmonary Conference Room
Every Thursday at noon is the pulmonary/critical care case conference. Drs. Charles MacDonald, Frank Delen, and Ivan Cheng will decide on what cases are to be presented at this conference. At this point, the second Thursday of every month will be designated for a critical care case and all the other Thursday conferences will be designated for pulmonary cases. For the pulmonary-based conferences, the pulmonary consult fellow will be asked to review one or more topics prior to the conference based on the cases to be presented. During the conference, a case will be introduced with supporting laboratory and radiographic studies and the fellows will be asked to provide their opinions regarding differential diagnosis and appropriate work-up. For the critical care-based conference, a fellow will be expected to review the clinical course of an ICU patient, answering appropriate questions regarding evaluation and management, and then provide a literature review of a specific topic. All efforts will be made to vary the cases presented throughout the year for the case-based conferences to provide a broad exposure for the fellows.
Core Curriculum Conference
Weekly: Every Wednesday 12:00 –1:00pm and select Mondays 12:00 – 1:00pm
Pulmonary Conference Room
The core curriculum conference consists of lectures covering core topics in the field of pulmonary and critical care medicine. The format of most of the conferences is that lectures are chosen from the American Thoracic Society “State of the Art” lecture series. The latter part of the conference consists of a discussion of board review questions regarding the same topic. Several of the core curriculum conferences are designated pathology conferences, where cytology and histology slides of specific disease states are reviewed with a pathologist as well as a discussion of the clinical aspects of the disease state.
ICU Conference
Weekly: Every Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30 – 2:30pm
Enright Room
The ICU Conference is a rotating series of lectures provided by the Critical Care attending staff for residents and fellows rotating through the intensive care unit. Dr. Ivan Cheng organizes this lecture series.
Research Conference
Monthly: First Monday of every month, 12:00 – 1:00pm
Pulmonary Conference Room
The first Monday of every month is a research conference. Anyone in the division who is participating in research (attendings and fellows) will be asked to provide a review and status of their research projects. This conference is designed to provide an interactive forum for researchers to update the division regarding their projects and to receive feedback as well.
Journal Club
Monthly: Second Monday of every month, 12:00 – 1:00pm
Pulmonary Conference Room
The second Monday of the month is dedicated to a Journal Club. A fellow will always be responsible for Journal Club and they are expected to choose an article, distribute it one week in advance, and present and critique the article.
PFT / Exercise Testing Conference
Quarterly: Specified Monday of every third month, 12:00 – 1:00pm
Pulmonary Conference Room
The third, fourth and fifth Mondays of the month will have various different conferences including a quarterly PFT / Exercise Testing Conference. Fellows will be assigned to review a predetermined topic in the field of pulmonary function testing (PFT) and formal cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET). The latter part of the conference will be used to review interpretation of interesting studies.
Physiology Conference
Quarterly: Specified Monday of every third month, 12:00 – 1:00pm
Pulmonary Conference Room
The third, fourth and fifth Mondays of the month will have various different conferences including a quarterly Physiology Conference. Fellows will be assigned to review a predetermined pulmonary physiology topic.
Bronchoscopy Conference
Quarterly: Specified Monday of every third month, 12:00 – 1:00pm
Pulmonary Conference Room
The third, fourth and fifth Mondays of the month will have various different conferences including a quarterly Bronchoscopy Conference. The Bronchoscopy Conference will consist of a QA review of specific adverse events during any of the previous bronchoscopies performed at CPMC to assess for possible QA issues. This will then be followed by a presentation by a fellow regarding a predetermined topic in the field of bronchoscopy.
Division Meeting
Quarterly: Specified Monday of every third month, 12:00 – 1:00pm
Pulmonary Conference Room
The third, fourth and fifth Mondays of the month will have various different conferences including a quarterly Division Meeting. The division meetings represent a time when the division members and the fellows can discuss various issues. Administrative issues related to the division will be discussed at these meetings. This will also be a time when the fellows can provide feedback to the division as a whole regarding their fellowship experience. Fellows will be asked to leave the division meetings for the last 15 minutes so that the fellows’ progress and evaluations can be discussed.
Medicine House Staff Noon Conference
Monthly: Specified Wednesday of every month, 12:00 – 1:00pm
Enright Room
The Pulmonary and Critical Care Division is also responsible for presenting regularly at the medicine housestaff noon conference. There are typically 13 to 15 conferences in total and they will be divided among the fellows and attendings. The fellows will be assigned three conferences each. The topic will be of the presenter’s choosing.
UCSF Pulmonary Physiology Seminar
Weekly: Every Friday, 8:00 – 9:30am
UCSF – HSE-1303
The first year fellow is required to attend the weekly pulmonary physiology conference at UCSF. The conference topics are published for the entire year and cover the pathophysiology of lung diseases.