Unlike other rotations, the fellow is on the front line, gaining more experience in initial stabilization, resuscitation, and rapid diagnosis. However, the weekly schedule meets the 80 hours per week rule of the ABIM and usually allows for a long weekend per fellow each month. Meals are provided while on long and short call. Short call is by beeper after rounds, allowing attendance at conferences, reading, as well as more opportunities for procedures. Didactic conferences daily cover the spectrum of critical care medicine including non-pulmonary topics.
Fellows typically give short presentations on specific topics.
These presentations are preserved in the CCM Resource Center, a learning room on the MCCU which houses current periodicals, a spectrum of books, and computer learning systems. Diagnostic Hospital is one of The Methodist Healthcare System institutions sitting literally across the street from The Methodist Hospital. The Sleep Lab there has been developed extensively as a state of the art clinical and research facility. Dr. Max Hirshkowitz is the Research Director and Dr. Amir Sharafkhaneh is the Medical Director. Fellows may do one or two month electives in sleep or may undertake full training in sleep leading to certification.