The Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship at Indiana University is a combined three year program that is fully accredited by the ACGME. New Fellows are selected through the NRMP subspecialty match that occurs in June of the year preceding the beginning of fellowship. Applications for fellowship are made through ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service). See the ERAS web site for application and timeline information. Interviews are scheduled from January to April. Further information on the application process can be obtained by contacting us. The program provides training for all areas of pulmonary and critical care medicine, including basic research, outcomes research, clinical trials, and clinical teaching. Training programs are tailored to the individual needs of each fellow. Opportunities for continued training beyond the third year of fellowship are readily available. Those seeking a career in academic medicine often pursue this additional training in order to improve their chances of securing a faculty appointment. The Indiana University Methodist Hospital fellowship program has outstanding training opportunities:

1. Career development diversity and flexibility as outlined in the different tracks available to the trainee: Clinical or Academic.
   
   

   The fellowship program is composed of two tracks:

   • the research track encompasses 18 months of research time and 18 months of clinical time; the first year of the fellowship program emphasizes clinical training; the next two years of training emphasize research punctuated with an additional six months of clinical training.
     
     
   • the clinical track is divided into 24 months of clinical time and 12 months of research time; the first year is spent in clinical training plus 6 months in each of the second and third years. The clinical track fellows spend 6 months working on a research project in each of their 2nd and 3rd years of training.

   All fellows spend a half day per week in an outpatient pulmonary continuity clinic for 36 months of their training.

   (Note: 18 months of clinical time are required for ACGME eligibility to sit for both pulmonary and critical care medicine boards. It is also possible to arrange more than 12 but less than 18 months of research, with approval of the program director and fellowship committee).

2. Location diversity - Four locations that provide a broad range of clinical experience (which are likely unmatched by most programs): University Hospital as a quaternary referral center, Methodist Hospital as a large tertiary referral center and community practice hospital, Wishard Memorial Hospital (County), and the VA Medical Center (tertiary referral and primary care). All locations are accessible by a short walk or the People Mover (electric train).
   
   

   University Hospital

   Methodist Hospital

   Wishard Hospital

   VA Medical Center

   
   
3. Clinical diversity - The Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine faculty are qualified experts in pulmonary medicine and its subspecialties including interstitial and immunologic lung diseases, pulmonary hypertension, occupational lung disease/occupational medicine, public health, asthma, lung transplantation, rheumatologic lung diseases, interventional pulmonology, neuro-trauma, and sleep medicine.
   
   
4. Research diversity - Divisional researchers are actively engaged in cutting edge research in COPD/emphysema, interstitial and immunologic lung disease, transplant immunology, pulmonary hypertension, and pulmonary fungal and opportunistic infections. In addition, collaborations exist between our division and others providing numerous opportunities for interdivisional and interdepartmental research projects. The research facilities are located on the contiguous medical center campus and at the Methodist Hospital Research Institute (current research).
   
   
5. Educational priorities - The first month of fellowship is procedural and didactic with no call. Clinical educational activities are supplemented by core didactics and case conferences. Archived case presentations from Thursday morning chest conferences are available on this site.
   
   

For more information:

Mark O. Farber, M.D. (Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program Director)

Indiana University School of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Occupational Medicine
Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center
1481 W. 10th Street, 111P-IU
Indianapolis, IN 46202-2884

Phone: (317) 988-3918
Fax: (317) 988-3976