Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship


Program Overview

Loyola Medicine has a fully accredited and highly competitive three-year combined Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship program with a total complement of 13 clinical fellows. It offers a comprehensive program of quality patient care, research and education.

Our program’s strength lies in the large and varied patient base, the variety of clinical experiences offered and a faculty dedicated to teaching. Our fellows are trained to be skilled clinician educators through intense clinical exposure and opportunities to teach residents and medical students.

Our fellows rotate through multiple institutions during the course of their fellowship:

Loyola University Medical Center

Loyola University Medical Center provides a broad rang of patient experience with approximately 1,000 acute care beds of which 150 are adult intensive care beds. The hospital is rated as having the highest patient acuity level in Illinois.

The lung transplantation program is one of only seven programs to have performed over 500 transplants. We have an active Sleep Center and perform over 1,300 sleep studies. We have a busy interventional bronchoscopy program that performs stenting, laser, endobronchial ultrasound and brachytherapy.

Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital

The Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital is the largest in the Midwest and is a referral base for other VA hospitals. Large patient base with obstructive lung disease and lung cancer.

Additionally the Hines VA is one of the ALS referral centers for the region. We have a busy interventional bronchoscopy program with navigational bronchoscopy and endobronchial ultrasound available.

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Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship Overview

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