About the Program

The Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program at Columbia University provides all fellows with a comprehensive two-year core clinical curriculum. During the first two years of fellowship, fellows complete approximately 20–22 months of clinical training in pulmonary and critical care medicine, followed by a third year tailored to each fellow’s career pathway and goals. This shared foundation provides robust exposure to pulmonary and critical care medicine, advanced lung diseases, lung transplantation, extracorporeal life support for respiratory failure, airway management, critical care ultrasound, advanced bronchoscopy, and pleural procedures. The third year is individualized according to each fellow’s career pathway and professional goals.

Fellows pursuing a research career dedicate the third and fourth years of fellowship to research training and a mentored scholarly project, supported by an NIH-funded T-32 training grant. Within the research pathway, fellows may pursue an MS at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health and focused training in basic and translational science, clinical science in advanced lung disease, global health, and critical care medicine.

Fellows may also pursue scholarly work in learning health systems, quality and safety, implementation science, informatics, and machine learning, with mentorship from faculty focused on using local clinical data, health-system infrastructure, and evidence-based tools to improve the quality, safety, and reliability of patient care.

Fellows in the clinician-scholar pathway receive additional clinical training aligned with their career interests, as well as protected time for scholarly work. Advanced clinician-scholar pathways in lung transplant, interstitial lung disease, cystic fibrosis and non-CF bronchiectasis, pulmonary hypertension, and extracorporeal life support are integrated into the three years of ACGME-accredited fellowship training. Additional information is available on our Training Pathways page.