The Pulmonary Fellowship Program is a 2-year program
designed to provide the fellow with the education,
training, and clinical skills necessary to pursue a
clinical academic career or enter the clinical practice of
pulmonary and / or critical care medicine. In general, the
fellow will spend 4-5 months on the clinical pulmonary
service at the University of South Alabama (USA) Medical
Center and 5-6 months at the Infirmary West at Knollwood
Hospital providing pulmonary and critical care, (primary
care and consultation), and 2 months at Mobile Infirmary,
as well as attending pulmonary and sleep disorders clinics.
Teaching facilities include the USA Medical Center
containing the combined Medical Intensive Care and Coronary
Care Unit and the attached medical step-down unit. The
other major teaching facility is the Infirmary West at
Knollwood Hospital containing the Medical-Surgical
Intensive Care Unit which is under the direct supervision
of the Pulmonary Division and in which both
pulmonary/critical care consultation and primary critical
care are provided. Attached to Infirmary West is Dr.
William Broughton in the Sleep Centerthe Infirmary West
Longterm Care Hospital, a facility for non-acute longterm
care in which the Pulmonary Division provides consultative
services. Infirmary West has an active Sleep Disorders
Center that performs approximately 700 annual sleep studies
and is supervised by a pulmonary faculty member certified
by the American Board of Sleep Medicine.