Pulmonary Medicine Lessons For Residents and Fellows

Loyola University Medical Education Network

Pulmonary Medicine Lessons

Arcot J. Chandrasekhar, MBBS, FACP, FCCP, FRCP(C)
Professor of Medicine
Pulmonary Critical Care Division

Your comments, suggestions and criticisms will be most appreciated. My email address is achandr@lumc.edu. Last update: 04/05/2000.
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Pulmonary Curriculum of Stritch School of Medicine Target audience: Loyola Medical Students

Physical Diagnosis (I lesson) By A.J. Chandrasekhar, MD Target audience: Medical students. The Pulmonary Physical Diagnosis lesson is basic. Reason for, method of exam, normal findings and significance of abnormalities are reviewed for each step.

Advanced Physical Diagnosis (Contains a large lesson with multiple sections) By A.J. Chandrasekhar, MD This lesson is developed to support the Advanced Physical Diagnosis Course, offered to medical residents. The lesson deals with in-depth discussion of advanced physical exam skills in the field of pulmonary medicine at Fellows level.

Symptom/Problem: (3 lessons) Target audience Medical students.

Cough : by John Walsh, MD and Dawn Carlson, MD
Dyspnea by John M. Walsh, MD, MS
Hemoptysis by Dawn Carlson, MD

Diseases (44 diseases) By A.J. Chandrasekhar, MD Basic information about pulmonary diseases. Targeted for Senior medical students.

Procedure (Contains 5 lessons ) By A.J. Chandrasekhar, MD Each procedure will state targeted audience. In this lesson, indications, steps of procedure, pre and post procedure management, complications and how to avoid them are discussed for each procedure. Any physician who has not yet performed these procedures will benefit by this review prior to attempting the actual procedure. Rapid changes in technology and instrumentation make some techniques and images obsolete. However, many of the fundamental principles remain pertinent.

Pathology

Lesson 1: (23 Topics) Targeted for Medical students by Dr Ralph Leischner
Lesson II: (60 topics) Targeted for Fellows. In this lesson Dr. Aliya Husain presents disease based Lung pathology.
Lesson III : Targeted for Fellows. In this lesson Dr. Aliya Husain presents an excellent overview of Lung pathology
Gross Lungs Review Targeted for Medical students By Dr Ralph Leischner, MD
Self Evaluation on Pulmonary Pathology. Targeted for Medical students By Dr Ralph Leischner, MD

Review also the website of University of Utah. Excellent Gross and microscopic lung pathology.

Microbiology:

Bacteroides and Other Anaerobes Targeted for Medical students by Dr David Hecht M.D
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: Targeted for Medical students by Tadayo Hashimoto, M.D., Ph.D.

Self Evaluation The purpose is defeated if you look up answers before making an attempt to answer yourself. It is anticipated that you will aim to correct deficiencies in areas where you have problems.

Exercise 1 By Dr. Kevin Simpson, MD Targeted for Residents. Every resident enrolled in a pulmonary rotation is expected to review these questions and attempt to answer them. Dr Kevin Simpson's discussion of answers is available.
Exercise 2: (Contains 4 lessons) By A.J. Chandrasekhar, MD Targeted for Fellows. Tests your comprehension of principles of CXR interpretation.

Pulmonary function studies (Contains 9 lessons) By A.J. Chandrasekhar, MD Targeted for Residents and Fellows. Lessons will carry you through basic concepts of PFT interpretation using real cases.

Case Studies (20 cases) Case studies are being accumulated for self evaluation . Each case will state targeted audience.

Lung Cancer (Contains 8 lessons) By A.J. Chandrasekhar, MDTargeted audience indicated for each lesson. Lessons on various aspects of lung cancer deals with in-depth discussion of the topic.

Anatomy : Dr John McNulty

Overview of Thorax Target audience Medical student

Pleural cavities Target audience Medical students

Cross sectional anatomy correlating with CT and MRI Target audience: Fellows

Histology: Target audience Medical students

Physiology (13 lessons) By Charles L. Webber, Jr., Ph.D.

Target audience: Medical students.

Chest X-ray (Contains13 lessons) By A.J. Chandrasekhar, MD

Targeted audience indicated for each lesson. Detailed discussion of the rationale of chest x-ray interpretation is reviewed with the aid of cases. Principles of clinical medicine is incorporated.

Fellow Lectures (12 lessons) Annual lectures to fellows.

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