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Dear Applicant:
Thank you for your interest in our fellowship program. The fellowship is a three year combined program of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. Our program consists of six fellows, two fellows per year.
The major clinical rotations are Pulmonary Consults, MICU, CCU, SlCU, Trauma, Neurosurgical Critical Care, Pulmonary Function Testing, Sleep Medicine, and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. On the pulmonary consult service, you advise the primary teams on many pulmonary issues. Tuberculosis, community-acquired pneumonia, interstitial lung disease, pleural diseases, and cancer are a few of the clinical problems we encounter. You will perform and gain expertise in bronchoscopies and pleural biopsies.
The new John Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County is sunny and beautiful. Our new computer system allows physician to enter order, retrieve of laboratory and historical data, and electronic documentation. Each computer terminal also has internet access to facilitate researching the literature sometime at the point of service. Our radiology is computerized and studies can be viewed from any patient care area in the hospital.
Our new MICU has twenty-two beds divided into two pods. Our patient mix is varied including infections, sepsis, ARDS, respiratory failure, shock, and gastrointestinal bleeding to enumerate a sampling of our diagnoses. Throughout the fellowship, you will be on call in-house and from home. Your duty on-call includes assessing and triaging admissions to the MICU, supervising the MlCU interns and residents, and being the team leader for all cardiopulmonary arrests in the hospital.
By graduation the fellows are competent in all procedures related to Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine. These are the approximate number of selected procedures that are done over 3 years: bronchoscopies: 200, intubations: 50, central lines: 150, chest tubes: 10, percutaneous tracheostomies: 10.
Our fellows attend a half-day per week continuity Pulmonary Diseases Clinic and attend the Asthma Clinic every other week. Fellows also attend the Sleep Disorders Clinic during the Sleep Medicine rotations.
By the end of the first year, the faculty will assist the fellows in choosing a mentor and a research project. During the second and third years, our fellows will have protected research time. We expect all our fellows to publish at least two abstracts by graduation. We have modified the schedule to give the second year fellows the time to advance their research project enough to produce an original research by graduation.
All applicants must use the ERAS system. I will only review completed files. A completed file must have: a Dean's letter, 3 current letters of recommendation, transcripts from medical school, ECFMG certificate, USMLE scores, a CV, a personal statement explaining why you are interested in Pulmonary/Critical Care and the ERAS application.
The deadline for accepting applications is February 10. Incomplete applications are not reviewed. It is your responsibility to ensure that your application is complete. The program interviews 35-40 applicants for 2 positions. We only acquire fellows through the national match system. At present we support all visas.
We look forward to your application, if you have further questions please contact Mrs. Taylor at 312.864.7371 or E-mail: dtaylor@cchil.org.
Sincerely,
Catherine Monti, MD MPH
Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship Program Director
Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
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