Fellowship in Pulmonary Disease Critical Care Medicine

The Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine/Scott & White Pulmonary Disease/Critical Care Medicine Fellowship provides three years of training in the subspecialty of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. There are two positions available per year. The mission of the Fellowship program is to provide the fellow with skills needed to perform as a consultant or primary provider of care for patients with lung diseases and critical illness.

An ACGME-Accredited program
The Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine/Scott & White Pulmonary Disease Critical Care Medicine Fellowship is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education  (ACGME).

Applicants must have completed a three-year accredited residency program in Internal Medicine and be eligible for certification in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) prior to beginning fellowship training.

Two subspecialty residents are accepted each year. We provide the fellows with the foundation needed to succeed in the clinical-academic arena or in the private sector.

The Fellowship program is based at Scott & White in Temple, Texas. The fellow will also rotate at the Central Texas Veteran's Health Care System in Temple, which is part of the clinical teaching campus.

Affiliates
All Scott & White postgraduate residencies and fellowships are affiliated with Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. Scott & White and the Central Texas Veteran's Healthcare System in Temple are the clinical teaching institutions for Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.

Faculty
There are 11 faculty members at Scott & White and four at the Central Texas Veteran's Healthcare System. The Pulmonary and Critical Care fellows are active members of a team that teaches medical students and residents while providing care to patients with a variety of respiratory diseases.

About Scott & White
Scott & White Memorial Hospital is a 486-bed facility with a strong commitment to medical education and medical research. There are more than 21,000 hospital admissions annually, all of which are considered teaching patients. Approximately 900 bronchoscopies are performed annually.

Fellows will be exposed to patients with both common and rare pulmonary disorders. Interaction with a well-trained academic faculty of thoracic surgeons, cardiologists, invasive radiologists, oncologists, allergists and pathologists is assured.

A new Intensive Care Unit
Scott & White opened a new 70-bed intensive care unit in December 2006 in the newly-built Main Hospital. Of the 70 ICU beds, 20 are medical.

The Critical Care component of the program emphasizes the diagnosis and management of medical problems in critically ill patients in the medical intensive care unit.

A strong interactive collaboration exists with the surgical and coronary divisions. Special emphasis is paid to the identification and management of emotional problems of patients and families and to bioethical problems that may exist.

An important part of the training is to foster the interaction of the subspecialty resident with the team of multidisciplinary practitioners that works in the intensive care unit.

The Division emphasizes the practice of medicine based on evidence and pay special attention to outcomes data. The generation of new knowledge is fostered within the Division by faculty mentors. Research is ongoing in the areas of physiology, pulmonary hypertension, sleep disorders and critical care outcomes.

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