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Interventional Pulmonary Fellowship

Curriculum & Clinical Experience

Weekly Rotation Schedule (sample)

  Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday Thursday Friday
AM  Procedures Procedures
 IP Clinic

8AM - 9AM: Tumor Board

Procedures

7AM - 8AM: Bi-weekly Didactics

7:15AM (4th Friday of the month): Airway Conference

Procedures
PM

Procedures

Inpatient Consults

Inpatient Consults

PM (3rd Tuesday of the month): Protected time for Research

Procedures

Inpatient Consults

Procedures

Inpatient Consults

 Inpatient Consults

Tampa General Hospital

Clinical Training

Tampa General Hospital (primary site) - TGH has two dedicated Interventional Pulmonology faculty members, Dr. Akkineni and Dr. Goizueta. They will serve as the primary training site for the fellowship program. TGH is already a training site for robust internal medicine and pulmonary and critical care fellowship programs. Dedicated interventional pulmonary clinics are already well developed and will provide an excellent opportunity for interventional pulmonary fellows to gain experience in outpatient management of patients.

The large number of intensive care unit beds as well as robust subspecialty presence (thoracic surgery, anesthesiology, otolaryngology) make TGH ideal for the expansion of the interventional pulmonary service whose patients often require complex multidisciplinary care.

Procedural Experience

    • EBUS Linear & Radial (Olympus)
    • Robotic assisted bronchoscopy (Ion)
    • CBCT (GE with Ion Integration)
    • EMN Navigational bronchoscopy (Illumisite)
    • Cryobiopsy
    • Rigid Bronchoscopy
    • Ablation (ERBE – APC, Cryotherapy), Laser
    • Microdebrider
    • Stents
      • Y-stents (Novatech silicone, Thoracent, and VisionAir Custom 3D printed stent)
      • SEMS (Bonastent, and AERO)
    • Cryospray (TruFreeze)
    • BLVR (Spiration and Zephyr)
    • Photodynamic therapy
    • Endobronchial Brachytherapy
    • Thoracentesis
    • Chest tubes
    • IPC (Pleurx)
    • Pleuroscopy
      • Parietal pleural biopsy
      • Talc poudrage
    • Percutaneous tracheostomy
Seven USF Health Interventional Pulmonary Fellows in blue medical attire

Didactic Training

  • TGH thoracic tumor board – Thursday AM
  • Multidisciplinary Airway Conference – 4th Friday AM
  • ILD Multidisciplinary Discussion – Fridays 12 noon
  • Biweekly TGH IP educational conferences (Journal club, M&M, core lectures and case discussions)
  • IP lecture series (UCLA) – Wednesday 10 AM(EST)

Scholarly Activity

Interventional Pulmonology (IP) fellows are expected to engage in meaningful scholarly work and academic contributions, including delivering at least one presentation at a national conference and submitting one manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal.

Furthermore, fellows will actively contribute to a range of IP-related industry and investigator-initiated clinical trials at USF Health and TGH.

Teaching Opportunities

Interventional Pulmonology (IP) fellows will play a vital role in training of PCCM fellows by delivering lectures, assisting with bronchoscopy boot camp, and serving as procedural mentors.

Additionally, fellows will have the opportunity to contribute to the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine by participating in pulmonary module lectures for medical students

Evaluation

To ensure the trainee acquires adequate knowledge and develops their technical skills, performance will be monitored carefully during the course of the program training. The trainee will be evaluated formally by the supervising faculty members, quarterly, and will meet with the program director to review these evaluations on a semiannual basis. In addition, you will be given the opportunity to evaluate the faculty, anonymously, on a semiannual basis, to ensure that your educational needs are being met.

Other Evaluation methods include an in-service, written exam.