Department of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Fellowship Training Program
The Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship is a three-year program, and time is equally divided between clinical and research training. Since the goal of the fellowship is to prepare physicians for careers in academic Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, an additional year of research training is strongly encouraged and is available for interested trainees.
The Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh offers:
- Outstanding clinical training that is designed to create master clinicians
- Large, diverse patient population
- Experienced and dedicated faculty clinician-educators
- Intensive experience in multi-disciplinary critical care
- Focused outpatient training in asthma and allergy, pulmonary vascular disease, interstitial lung disease, cystic fibrosis, COPD, lung cancer, lung transplantation, and sleep medicine
- Additional subspecialty training fellowships are available in sleep medicine, pulmonary transplantation, and pulmonary vascular disease.
- Outstanding training in biomedical research that is designed to prepare fellows for a career in academic medicine
- Nationally recognized basic science, translational, and clinical research programs in:
- Asthma and Allergy
- Pulmonary Vascular Disease
- Interstitial Lung Disease
- Acute Lung Injury
- Critical Care Medicine
- Cystic Fibrosis
- COPD
- Lung Cancer
- Host Defense
- Lung Transplantation
- Sleep Medicine
- Experienced, successful, and dedicated faculty mentors
- Over $17 million in research funding
- 62 MD and PhD faculty members
- 2 SCCOR grants
- Didactic training in biostatistics, epidemiology, laboratory methods, study design, and many other areas
- Outstanding record of developing funded physician-investigators
Click on the links on the left side of the page to learn more about our fellowship training program.