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Thank you for your interest in the Bridgeport Hospital Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program. Our educational mission is to prepare trainees for successful careers in pulmonary and critical care medicine in both academic and non-academic settings. Our program seeks to fulfill this mission by providing a rich and broad training experience. The faculty advances the educational goals of the program through excellence in clinical education, patient care and clinical scholarship.
The Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship is an ACGME-accredited three-year training program. The primary site is Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, where the majority of the training experience occurs. Complementary critical care and inpatient pulmonary consultative service rotations at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven provide a university-hospital experience. Fellows also rotate at the Hospital for Special Care in New Britain for training in pulmonary rehabilitation and long term ventilator management.
Completion of the three-year training program fulfills the requirements for certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in both Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine.
Application to our program is through the Electronic Resident Application Service (ERAS). The Bridgeport Hospital Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship participates in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Medical Specialties Matching Service (MSMP). The Fellowship has a total of six fellows, two fellows in each of the three years.
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Fellows spend approximately eight months on the medical ICU and an additional three months on non-medical ICU services for training in critical care. Another 12 months are spent on inpatient pulmonary consult services. Approximately four months are spent on various other rotations including palliative care, echocardiography, anesthesia, and pulmonary rehabilitation. Fellows work alongside faculty, internal medicine house staff, advanced practice providers and medical students to manage the full spectrum of critical care and pulmonary disease including, but not limited to, sepsis, cardiogenic shock, respiratory failure, acute kidney and liver failure, acute neurologic disorders, pulmonary infections, thoracic malignancy and complications of cancer therapy, airways disorders and pleural disease.
Fellows are trained to use point-of-care ultrasound, primarily echocardiography and thoracic ultrasound, to supplement their bedside clinical evaluations and assist in performing invasive procedures (such as central venous catheter placement and thoracentesis). Fellows are also trained to become highly proficient in fiberoptic bronchoscopy and related procedures as well as endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS). Simulation training in both fiberoptic bronchoscopy and EBUS is used to accelerate development of procedural competency.
A rigorous ambulatory experience provides a broad exposure to outpatient pulmonary and sleep medicine including dyspnea evaluation, COPD, asthma, lung nodules, thoracic malignancy, sarcoidosis and other interstitial lung diseases, pre-operative respiratory evaluation and sleep disordered breathing.
Research blocks are provided for trainees to have meaningful opportunities for clinical and research scholarship. Fellows are encouraged to attend regional and national meetings to present their work.
Jennifer Ortiz
Program Coordinator
Bridgeport Hospital
Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care,
and Sleep Medicine
267 Grant Street, NW6
Bridgeport, Ct 06610