Curriculum

Our clinical training exposes fellows to a comprehensive curriculum while caring for a diverse community. Our critical care experience is fast-paced with high patient turnover, high acuity, and with the opportunity to make new, urgently needed diagnoses and provide evidence-based care. Our fellows have a leadership role in the intensive care unit as clinicians and educators. Pulmonary medicine training occurs in inpatient consultative rotations, general pulmonary clinics, and specialty clinics devoted to pulmonary hypertension, mycobacterial disease, interstitial lung disease, lung transplantation, thoracic malignancy, neuromuscular respiratory disease, HIV related pulmonary disease, and sleep.  We have strong procedural training opportunities, and our fellows graduate with extensive experience in airway management, chest procedures, and advanced bronchoscopy.

To develop the fundamental skills to appreciate, interpret, and contribute to scholarship in medicine, our fellows participate in mentored research projects; approximately 3 months are available each year for scholarly activity. Finally, the LSU Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship trains physician-citizens.  Through our Global Pulmonary Health Scholars exchange program, we have sent fellows to Turkey, Brazil, India, and Vietnam for international exposure to comparative health systems, pulmonary diseases, and professionalism.

Rotations