Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship – Northeast
Become a well-rounded practitioner equipped to handle a diverse range of patients.
About us
Pulmonary and critical care medicine is an exciting specialty, allowing you to work with a diverse population of patients. This three-year fellowship will prepare you by providing exposure to a wide range of lung diseases, as well as readying you to manage patients with life-threatening illnesses.
As a fellow, you’ll work with faculty members at both Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton, Pa. We focus on building the foundations of a solid clinical understanding of physiological concepts, on which you will build your medical knowledge. Along with guiding your clinical experience, our faculty help you build your communication skills, develop research acumen and cultivate leadership abilities.
The population of northeast Pennsylvania spans rural and urban settings. Many patients travel great distances to be seen, expanding our program’s reach. You’ll have the opportunity to care for patients from a variety of backgrounds in the pulmonary clinic.
Geisinger was one of the first health systems in the nation to adopt Epic electronic medical records (EMR) more than 25 years ago. Epic captures most of the care for people living in our geographic region, giving you unique opportunities for the research we’ll encourage you to undertake and publish.
Our vision and mission
Vision
Our goal is to educate, encourage and shape you into a confident, compassionate physician. You’ll leave the program with a dedication to building programs to support your patients and communities, helping them breathe better and live healthier.
Mission
Our mission is developed with Geisinger’s core values: kindness, excellence, safety, learning and innovation.
Knowledge and skills
Our goal is to deliver the best learning experience for our fellows, with an integrated program that provides high quality education. We care for our patients using the foundational tenets of the ICU — excellence in communication, evidence-based knowledge, procedural skill and empathy.
Education
The word doctor derives from the Latin docēre, to teach. Education is a lifelong process in medicine. That’s why we involve our fellows from day one. We use multiple modalities to engage our learners, from didactics to practical instruction. Along with this, we’ll ask you to become a teacher, yourself. Teaching is both an art and a skill, as well as an obligation to help the next generation of physicians fulfil the oath they took to help others.
Leadership
Our program helps build a mindset of growth, change and adaptation. We want our graduates to go on to be the leaders of the future — to develop programs that will help patients and families. To discover new ways to promote healthy living and prevent harm. To build connections to others and foster cooperation within healthcare.
Message from the program director
We’re very excited to launch our new fellowship program, centered in northeast Pennsylvania. Our goal is to shape future leaders like you through innovative learning and collaborative education. We hope to inspire you with the core values that make our faculty tick — dedication, compassion, resilience, perseverance and empathy.
- Paul Arkless, MD
Program overview
Our curriculum includes:
- Outpatient pulmonary medicine
- Inpatient pulmonary consultation
- Adult critical care medicine
- Procedural instruction, including airway management, advanced bronchoscopy and vascular access
- Pulmonary function test interpretation
- Sleep medicine
- Surgical critical care specialties
- Respiratory failure clinic
First year
- Pulmonary consult service
- Intensive care unit
- Ambulatory care
- Anesthesia
- Echocardiography
- Bronchoscopy
Second year
- Pulmonary consult service
- Medical critical care
- Surgical critical care
- Ambulatory care
- Sleep medicine
- Research
- Elective
Third year
- Neurosurgical critical care
- Ambulatory care
- Sleep medicine
- Research
- Thoracic surgery
- Junior attending critical care rotation
- Night float
- Grant-funded research into sepsis outcomes
- Asthma triggers
- AI modeling in the ICU
About Geisinger
Geisinger serves more than 1 million people in central and northeast Pennsylvania. We’ve been nationally recognized for innovative practices in quality, delivery models such as ProvenCare® and the use of an award-winning electronic medical record, Epic®. Our physician-led system has approximately 25,000 employees, including nearly 1,700 physicians, 10 hospital campuses, two research centers and a health plan with more than half a million members, all of which boost our hometown economies by $7.1 billion annually.
Our home: Northeast Pennsylvania
Northeast Pennsylvania (NEPA) is a great place to live, with safe neighborhoods, an affordable cost of living and access to recreational activities. NEPA is close to New York City and Philadelphia, giving you access to major cities in just a few hours. Overall, our communities are a good bet for living a stress-free, healthy lifestyle. And more importantly, NEPA is a place where you can make a difference.