C. S. Mott Children's Hospital
Pulmonology: Fellowship
Clinical Training | Research Opportunities | Eligibility and Selection | Application | Policies | Goals and Objectives
Current Fellows
Mission and Overview
The Division of Pediatric Pulmonology directs a Fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine. This three-year program fulfills the requirements of the American Board of Pediatrics Sub-board of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine and is accredited by the Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
The goal of this program is to train outstanding academic pediatric pulmonologists – life-long learners who will be future leaders in the field. The provided training is broad in scope and includes a strong faculty, diverse inpatient and outpatient population, superb pulmonary function laboratory, and numerous educational and research opportunities. The program is under the direction of Marc Hershenson, M.D.
Clinical Training
Pediatric Pulmonary Fellows are required to take up to 14 months of clinical service; 12 months are usually spent covering the Pediatric Pulmonary inpatient, consult, and outpatient services. The remaining months are usually spent on electives. Elective services include pediatric intensive care, allergy, adult pulmonary, otolaryngology, infectious diseases and others. The outpatient experience includes one half-day clinic each week, staffed by a faculty member. Fellows are expected to see their own patients and follow them up. Fellows are trained to perform flexible bronchoscopy and to read pulmonary function tests, multichannel respiratory recordings, and allergy skin tests. Fellows take call from home only during their clinical months; the last two years of the fellowship, which focus on research, are nearly call-free.
Research Opportunities
At least 17 months of the three-year Fellowship period are spent in investigative work. During the first year of fellowship, each fellow is introduced and exposed to different programs of pulmonary research at the University of Michigan, including basic science research, mechanistic clinical research and epidemiology. Strong interdisciplinary interactions exist with the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care; Department of Pathology; Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology; and School of Public Health.
Eligibility and Selection
Eligible candidates will have either a M.D. or a D.O. degree and will have successfully completed a three-year residency in Pediatrics from an ACGME accredited program. In addition, the Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine Fellowship follows the Graduate Medical Education policy on eligibility and selection. To view the policy, please click here.
Policies
Supervision
The Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine adheres to the Office of Graduate Medical Education's Supervision Policy. To view the policy, please click here. In addition, specific guidelines relating to supervision and duty hours for the Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine can be seen here.
