Electives

  • Difficult Airway Course – Fellows have the opportunity to attend Rich Levitan’s cadaveric airway course. For more information on this course, please reference this link: https://www.airwaycam.com/texas.
  • Foundations of Mechanical Ventilation – Fellows have the opportunity to attend this course developed and run by the NIH.
  • Research – Fellows can work with emergency medicine and critical care clinician researcher faculty on research projects that encompass translational animal models, clinical trials, health services research, medical education, data analytics, and device development. In addition, the Department of Emergency Medicine also houses the Weil Institute for Critical Care Research & Innovation, which brings together integrative teams comprised of world-class U-M scientists, clinicians, and engineers with industry partners and funding sources to develop and deploy cutting-edge solutions that elevate the care, outcomes, and quality of life of critically ill and injured patients and their families. There are ample research training and funding opportunities available during and beyond fellowship.
  • Advanced airway elective – Fellows are paired with an Otolaryngology attending specializing in advanced airway management to gain experience with difficult airways in the operating room.
  • ECMO
  • Perfusionist
  • Survival Flight
  • Lung Transplant
  • ECLS Simulation Course
  • Interventional Pulmonology
  • Pulmonary consults (general and transplant)
  • Infectious Diseases consults (general and transplant)
  • Chest Imaging