Patient Information
Pulmonary Vascular Disease Center
Fellowship Program
Cystic Fibrosis Center
Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Internal Medicine Residency Program
Patient Calls
Scheduling: (706) 721-1450
Fax: (706) 721-1459
Triage Nurse: (706) 721-1790
Administrative/Academic Faculty Office:
Section of Pulmonary
1120 15th Street BBR5513
Augusta, GA 30912-3130
Phone: (706) 721-2566
Fax: (706) 721-3069
Fellowship Program
The Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at the Medical College of Georgia is a 3-year training program granting Board eligibility in both pulmonary and critical care. Each year we choose 2-3 fellows to join our program, for a total of 6-7 fellows in training at any given time. Our division has 8 full time clinical faculty members who are board certified in both Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine. We have one part-time Nephrology / Critical Care faculty member. We also have one full time PhD research faculty member and additional PhD research associates.
Additional strengths of the program include:
- A regional referral center for pulmonary hypertension with opportunity to learn elective right heart catheterization and vasodilator treatment
- National referral center for pulmonary artenovenous malformations
- Adult and pediatric cystic fibrosis centers
- Georgia Sleep Center with multichannel polysomnography and sleep latency testingInterventional bronchoscopy techniques of endobronchial ultrasound, balloon bronchial dilatation, tissue ablation with argon plasma coagulation, electrocautery and tracheobronchial stents
- Female faculty (2) and female fellows (2)
- Rotation at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Doctor's Hospital in Augusta, GA
- Ongoing NIH funded research in vascular biology, ARDS and sepsis
Prerequisites:
1. Completion of a 3 year US Internal Medicine Residency.
2. Applicant's must have passed steps 1, 2, and 3 US MLE to be considered.
3. Applicant's with visa's pending can not be considered.
4. Applicant's with H-1 visa's can not be considered.
How to apply:
We accept applications by
ERAS only at
http://www.aamc.org/students/erasfellow/start.htm. We participate in the National Resident Matching
Program.
Application
requirements:
1. Completed and signed application
2. CV
3. Personal statement
4. Picture
5. Copy of USMLE individual exam
results and Copy of USMLE Certified Transcript of Scores
6. Copy of medical school diploma
7. Copy of medical school
transcript
8. Copy of J-1 Visa or Green Card
if not a US citizen
9. Copy of ECFMG where applicable
10. Three (3) letters of reference,
one from your current program director
11.Dean's letter
More about us...
MCG is Georgia's health sciences university with schools of Medicine,
Dentistry, Allied Health Sciences, Graduate Studies and Nursing. The School
of Medicine, founded in 1828, is the 11th oldest medical school in the
country and is the oldest in the state of Georgia.
Our training sites include MCG Hospital and Clinics and the Augusta VA Medical Center. MCG hospital is a 630-bed (including 62 intensive care unit beds) tertiary care hospital that receives referrals from all across Georgia and additionally from Florida and South Carolina. MCG Ambulatory Care Center is devoted entirely to providing outpatient care. The Augusta VA Medical Center is a 460-bed hospital with all teaching and research programs affiliated with the School of Medicine. The VA Medical Center is adjacent to and connected to MCG Hospital, and offers a complementary spectrum of patient care and support services to MCG. The MCG Department of Medicine faculty, residents, fellows, and students staff the medicine services at both hospitals.
Clinical and Elective Rotations
Rotations are generally 1 month in duration and include clinical and elective rotations. The clinical rotations are equally divided between the MCG 4-ICU, VA MICU, MCG Pulmonary consult service, and VA Pulmonary consult service. Fellows typically have 12 months for research and elective training and 24 months of clinical training divided between MCG and the VAMC. Fellows will rotate on a trauma service at MCG or The Joseph M. Still burn center one month during their fellowship.
Conferences
Monday: Department of Medicine Basic Science (monthly) and M&M/CQI (monthly)
Tuesday: Pulmonary/Critical Care lecture series based on the three year curriculum (weekly) or Pulmonary Grand Rounds case based presentation and literature review (monthly - Sept. - May)
Wednesday: Department of Medicine Grand Rounds (weekly); Multidisciplinary
Core Curriculum (weekly Sept. - March);
VA Case Conference (weekly)
Thursday: Fellow's conference series (weekly) including Board Review, Research Methods Journal Club, and x-ray conference; and DOM Research Seminar (monthly)
Friday: MCG Multidisciplinary
thoracic case conference (weekly) with Pulmonary, Thoracic Surgery,
Pathology, Radiology, Oncology, and Radiation Oncology
Program Director:
Thomas Dillard, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Program Director, Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship Program
Director, Pulmonary Function Lab and Diagnostic Suite
Fellowship Coordinator
Office Associate
Division Business Manager:
Tracy Brickey
DivisionAdministrator
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August 19, 2008