Didactics and Education

Didactics and Education

Throughout the entire fellowship, fellows will be exposed to both informal and formal didactic lectures at every site with certain conferences available to all sites via tele-conferencing, as well as a staggered hands-on workshop series. In addition, fellows also play a large role as educators, preparing teaching conferences to be delivered to residents and the fellowship program.

Didactic lecture curriculum

• 2 hours of weekly protected time on Tuesday mornings for our core didactic lectures series
• Bimonthly “journal watch” and “journal club” conferences to discuss the latest research published in the field of pulmonary/critical care
• Case-based standardized national PCCM outpatient curriculum
• Weekly Grand Rounds delivered by both internal and visiting faculty

Case-based curriculum

• Weekly case-based conference in which fellows presents a case for discussion with invited faculty experts and multidisciplinary input from radiology, pathology, and others.,
  • Our most popular conference!
• Each site has dedicated patient-related conferences that fellows attend on an optional basis – e.g. tumor board, transplant selection committee, multidisciplinary ILD conference, etc…

Simulation-based curriculum

• Quarterly simulation or hands on courses split by training year
  • 1^st year  
    • Procedural training bootcamp
    • Ultrasound curriculum – including the SoCal Ultrasound Course + 3 hands on simulation sessions + guided independent image acquisition 
  • 2^nd and 3^rd years – offered sim courses given on a rotating basis
    • Critical Care Education Research Consortium's Fundamentals of Mechanical Ventilation Curriculum (developed by Dr. Burton Lee at the NIH)
      • All 2^nd year fellows participate in this national curriculum
      • Delivered in several sessions over one academic year, both via zoom and locally in person via hands-on simulation
    • Difficult airway
    • SoCal Endobronchial Ultrasound Course
    • Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) Symposium
    • Career Development Workshop