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We're the largest center in between Pittsburgh
and Philadelphia.
We pretty much see everything from your general bread
and butter COPD all the way to advanced pulmonary hypertension
patients, as well.
So I see a lot of patients in my pulmonary clinic
that I probably wouldn't see in a large urban setting,
especially with the under served and Amish
population around here.
Our interventional pulmonary group is very advanced.
We even have our own interventional pulmonary
fellowship.
And we do a lot of procedures in our IP departments
that isn't done at a lot of medical centers.
Likewise, we do our own right heart catheterization
with Dr. Chu, which is a fantastic experience.
Another unique aspect to our program
is our critical-care ultrasound curriculum.
We have sessions that occur every month
as part of our regular conference schedule.
But, in addition to that, I provide hands-on training
with all of our fellows weekly to make sure
that they also learn image-acquisition skills
in addition to the technical skills and interpretation
skills that are needed to use bedside ultrasound in the ICU
setting and in other settings.
Then there are opportunities that we
provide for each of the individual fellows that
are unique to them.
We pay attention to you.
We talk with you on a regular basis
to find out your needs, that--
working with you to develop what you want to be in your future.
We actually have a monthly meeting
with our fellows to discuss options,
their thoughts, their concerns.
And we work on those to try to make each
of the areas uniquely theirs.
I'm part of the clinician educator track.
And that allows us to have ability
to have teaching opportunities within the communities.
You take a two-week medical education
course, which was actually fantastic,
to help hone some of those skills,
meet a lot of educators in the community.
We've added a lot more flexibility
into the second and third years with more elective time,
more time for research.
I think that's something really important,
is to have time for yourself beyond what's
required by ACGME.
If you're interested in more community
practice or private practice, you're
able to morph your rotations and your schedule
to fit what you feel is best that you need
to become a good clinician.
The program leadership really guides
you to try to figure out who you want your mentors to be.
We have a very diverse group of faculty.
Some of them are more veteran physicians.
Some of them are more younger.
Our associate program director, he's
been very, very invested in regards
to the education portion and also the mentorship.
He, particularly, is my mentor.
So he's kind of shaped me in a way to try and identify
what are my strengths?
What are my weaknesses?
And kind of build up from that.
Many of our fellows have participated
in the clinician educator track or the Hippocrates program,
which are programs that are dedicated to training
future clinician educators, that they
provide the training to understand what goes on
in medical education, the expertise to set them apart
from other potential candidates who
are applying for similar jobs.
Additionally, we have the opportunity
for people who are interested to pursue classes
with the Penn State campus in adult education.
For fellows who are interested in pursuing
a career in research, we have multiple faculty
with NIH awards who have successfully mentored fellows
in various research projects.
I think this area, in particular, offers
a lot it's up and coming.
It's expanding.
We're also uniquely positioned because we
are in a central area where we can do things in the mountains
and then go to the shore.
We can to the city.
We can go to Washington.
We can go to Philadelphia.
We can go to New York if we so choose.
There's local sports that you can go to.
The restaurant scene is very, very good.
I enjoy it a lot.
The region definitely offers a variety of things
that one can do.
We all understand what it means when
you have family emergencies and you need to take off
and someone needs to cover you.
This is what most of the people here have to deal with.
We're well prepared to do so.
We look upon what we've learned from our own programs
and look at what we have in front of us
and try to make it even better.
I think whatever you want to do, they
find a way to help you get there.
With our having our shared office, all working together,
collaborating together, I think that's one of the best
parts of training, is working with your colleagues,
relying on each other.
We really all work together and support each other.
My hope is that we give you the experiences
to help you figure out what you want to do.
And that we then provide you with the training to make sure
that you get to where you want to go with your career
afterwards.
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