Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship Program Schedule | Hackensack University Medical Center
At Hackensack University Medical Center, our goal is to create an innovative schedule that will allow for optimal learning in both the inpatient and outpatient rotations for our fellows.
We are the first pulmonary and critical care fellowship to implement an innovative 4+1 schedule to double the outpatient experience that our fellows receive while also improving their inpatient experience.
Fellows spend 4 weeks divided between the ICU, our inpatient pulmonary service and the procedure rotation before spending a full week on their ambulatory rotation.
Inpatient Rotations
MICU/CCU
A combined medical and cardiac ICU with 20 beds. Our fellows learn how to manage complex, critically ill patients with a variety of conditions and become extremely adept at all procedures including difficult airways and management of VV ECMO patients.
Pulmonary Consults
Our fellows rotate on a very busy inpatient consult service with a wide variety of cases and diseases. We routinely assist with the care of patients with bread and butter conditions such as asthma and COPD, while also helping to diagnose more unusual conditions including vasculitis and interstitial lung diseases.
Procedure
Fellows assist with all types of procedures in the Pulmonary Lab including routine bronchoscopies, thoracenteses, chest tubes and cardio-pulmonary exercise tests as well as more complex procedures such as EBUS and navigational and robotic bronchoscopies. Fellows also learn how to interpret pulmonary function tests and cardio-pulmonary exercise tests under the instruction of our faculty.
Cardiothoracic ICU
The CTICU is a busy unit where fellows are exposed to post-op cardiothoracic patients, LVADs, VA ECMO and the management of axillary Impellas.Surgical ICU/Trauma
Our fellows have the opportunity to rotate in our surgical ICU and learn the differences in the management of medical and surgical critically ill patients. In addition, our fellows spend time with the Trauma service and learn about the management of trauma patients at our Level 1 Trauma center.Neuro-Critical Care
Fellows round with our Neuro-Critical Care Team and learn the management of critically ill patients with acute strokes, intracerebral hemorrhages as well as the care of Neurosurgical post-operative cases.
Electives
Pulmonary Hypertension and Advanced CHF
Fellows spend two weeks rounding with our team of Cardiologists who are specialized in pulmonary hypertension and advanced CHF. Here they will become adept at the interpretation of RHC and will have the opportunity to help with catheterizations in the Cardiac Cath Lab.
Thoracic Surgery
Fellows will round with the thoracic team both on the floors and in their clinic seeing preoperative and postoperative patients. Our fellows will have the opportunity to learn surgical chest tube placement and observe and assist in cases in the OR with the thoracic team.
Thoracic Radiology
Dedicated time daily with our thoracic radiologists with more in depth education on reading routine radiographs and CT scans of the chest.
Sleep
Time in the sleep lab learning how to interpret sleep studies and outpatient time with our sleep director Dr. Villa on the management of all varieties of sleep disorders.
Lung Transplantation
Fellows have the opportunity during their 3rd year to travel to Columbia in Manhattan for a month long elective in Lung Transplant. Fellows join the Transplant team at NYP and gain enormous exposure into the pre-op work up and post op care of a lung transplant patient.