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The Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program is a three-year fellowship program that complies with all ACGME requirements, in addition to following the guidelines and recommendations of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). Mount Sinai Medical Center is the largest private, independent, non-profit teaching hospital in South Florida. Our 672-bed hospital with 99 ICU designated beds, 12 satellite offices, and three emergency centers provides care to a large local tri-county patient population. Because of our South Florida location, Mount Sinai also serves as a referral center to international patients from the Caribbean and Central and South America.

The educational mission of the Mount Sinai Medical Center Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship (PCCF) Program is to train highly qualified Pulmonary and Critical Care physicians who are

Able to provide high quality Pulmonary and Critical Care patient care
Have received specialized training and be qualified in:
- Patients with the full array and future pulmonary diseases and those requiring critical care.
- General screening for pulmonary genetic diseases, asthma, inflammatory disease, fibrotic disease, infectious disease, vascular disease, and cancer.
- Management of acute and chronic pulmonary and critical care problems
Fellows will learn about aspects of preventive health care, including exams, routine tests, immunizations, and overall evaluations for patients with pulmonary and critical conditions.
Fellows will learn about aspects of preventive health care, including exams, routine tests, immunizations, and overall evaluations for patients with pulmonary and critical conditions.

The schedule includes rotations in Medical ICU, Surgical ICU, Specialty clinic, Research electives, Cysitc Fibrosis clinic as well as Interventional Pulmonology. We also will be joining our other academic colleagues with Ultrasound didactics and Anesthesia for airway “bootcamp”.

The advantage of our program will be the attention that each fellow receives given a high attending: fellow ratio. Clinical rotations, simulation, didactics, procedures, mentored research and self-directed learning prepares our fellows to be future leaders in the field. Our faculty are outstanding triple threats as clinicians and patient care advocates, teachers, and involved in scholarly activity.

Ari Ciment, MD
Program Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship