Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

Clinician Educator Track

Pulmonary fellows practicing airway intubation on mannequins at a training table

We pride ourselves on have a longstanding tradition of training excellent clinician educators through our dedicated Clinician Educator track. The majority of the fellows in our program join this training track, which in addition to the clinical training includes opportunities for scholarly contributions, including clinical research, medical education scholarship, and hands on teaching.

OVERVIEW:

  • Fellows in the clinician-educator track have ~40% time allocated during their 2nd and 3rd years of fellowship for research and scholarly activities, including clinical research, publishing case reports/book chapters/review articles, undertaking QI projects, and other activities.
  • Fellows have the opportunity to pursue a formal 1-2-year UCLA Medical Education Fellowship offered by the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Dean’s Office.
  • Fellows on this track may simultaneously choose to subspecialize in a clinical training track, and their scholarly work is often paired with their clinical interest.
    • Available Clinical tracks (See Clinical Training tab): sleep medicine, pulmonary vascular disease, interstitial lung disease, cystic fibrosis, and global health
  • There are ample hands-on teaching opportunities through the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Department of Medicine.
    • Fellows routinely deliver education to internal medicine residents via didactic lectures, IM board reviews, and teaching hands on skills through simulation and procedure courses.
    • Fellows are given opportunity to participate in medical student teaching, from the first year pulmonary-based laboratories through fourth year student procedure-based and critical care simulations.
  • Many fellows choose to take on a medical education scholarship project, often centering around curriculum development for internal medicine resident teaching.

All fellows are expected to demonstrate productive use of their academic time, including presenting abstracts at national/international scientific meetings, publishing original research or review papers, and giving a research presentation at Pulmonary Grand Rounds at the conclusion of fellowship.