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

• Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Case-Based Conference
• Core Curriculum Conference
• ICU Conference
• Research Conference
• Journal Club
• PFT / Exercise Testing Conference
• Bronchoscopy Conference
• Division Meeting
• Medicine House Staff Noon Conference
• UCSF Pulmonary Physiology Seminar

Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Case-Based Conference

Every Thursday at noon is the pulmonary/critical care case conference. Faculty and fellows will decide on cases to be presented. 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. The fourth conference of each month is a pathology based conference with the expectation that at least three cases will be presented by the fellows in conjunction with a review of radiology and pathology with a member of the Department of Pathology in attendance.



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Core Curriculum Conference

Weekly: Every Wednesday 12:00 -1:00pm and select Mondays 12:00 – 1:00pm

The core curriculum conference consists of lectures covering core topics in the field of pulmonary and critical care medicine. Clinical faculty provide lectures on their areas of subspecialty expertise and guest lectures from within or external to the hospital system provide talks on topics ranging from “Hypothermia in Neurocritical Care” to “The Evidence for CVVHD in the Critically Ill Patient.”


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ICU Conference

Weekly: Every Tuesday and Thursday, 1:30 – 2:30pm

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. George Horng organizes this lecture series in collaboration with the Critical Care, hepatology and neurocritical Care Services.


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Research Conference

Monthly: First Monday of every month, 12:00 – 1:00pm


The first Monday of every month is a research conference. Faculty and Fellows will 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.
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Journal Club

Monthly: Second Monday of every month, 12:00 – 1:00pm

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, review and discuss the article with a member of the clinical faculty, and present and critique the article.

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PFT / Exercise Testing Conference

Quarterly: Specified Monday of every third month, 12:00 – 1:00pm
Pulmonary Conference Room

Quarterly, a PFT / Exercise Testing Conference is held in lieu of one of the Morbidity and Mortality conferences. 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.



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Bronchoscopy Conference

Quarterly: Specified Monday of every third month, 12:00 – 1:00pm
Pulmonary Conference Room

A quarterly Bronchoscopy Conference is held in lieu of one of the Morbidity and Mortality conferences. 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.


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Division Meeting

Division Meeting
Quarterly: Specified Monday of every third month, 12:00 – 1:00pm

A quarterly Division Meeting is held in lieu of one of the Morbidity and Mortality conferences. 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.




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Medicine House Staff Noon Conference

Monthly: Specified Wednesday of every month, 12:00 – 1:00pm


The Pulmonary and Critical Care Division is also responsible for presenting regularly at the Medicine House Staff 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.


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UCSF Pulmonary Physiology Seminar

Weekly: Every Friday, 8:00 – 9:30am

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.


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