Pulmonary Fellowship Training Program

​Pulmonary Fellowship Training Program

The Pulmonary Fellowship Program at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh is a fully accredited program by Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS). Our subspecialty training program is designed to provide two years of advanced clinical training in the field of pulmonary medicine. Upon completing the two-year training program, fellows can sit for the SCFHS Board Examination in Pulmonary Medicine.

Trainees are given increasing responsibility as they progress through the program and demonstrate their expanding knowledge base and expertise in diagnosing and managing pulmonary diseases. They serve as leaders of the pulmonary team, consisting of fellow internal medicine residents and medical students, with consultant supervision. The trainee is exposed to extensive clinical training in outpatient and inpatient settings, plus didactic core curriculum lectures, journal clubs, and case discussions. In addition, Trainees will have the opportunity to participate in a broad range of pulmonary clinics, including general pulmonary, Sleep, Tuberculosis, interstitial lung disease, Bronchiectasis, and pulmonary hypertension clinics.

Academic activities in the program:

Academic Half-day:

Academic Half-day Didactic lectures (Each Sunday from 1100 to 1230 hours) during the academic year, the trainees attend a mandatory academic half-day every week where core topics in pulmonary medicine are reviewed. Topics are covered on a rotating basis over the two-year fellowship and run from September to June of each academic year. The core lecture series was developed to fulfill the educational objectives as outlined in the Specialty Training Requirements.

Journal Club:

Journal club is held every week (Each Tuesday from 1100 to 1230 hours). Two fellows are assigned to review and critically appraise recent journal articles. The discussions at the journal club are often centered around the validity of the study in the context of evidence-based medicine, the conclusions of the study, and its relevance to the improvement of our practice.

Chest Radiology Meeting:

Chest Radiology Meeting is a weekly (Each Wednesday from 1230 to 13:30 hours) multidisciplinary meeting that includes faculties from pulmonary, Critical care, thoracic radiology, and thoracic surgery. An interactive case-based discussion and review of recent clinical cases. These are often working rounds, including reviewing active cases, imaging findings, and clinical decision-making and treatment options.

Clinical duties:

Depend on the number of fellows rotating in our service, but generally, the workload will be distributed among fellows as following:

1. To cover inpatients service where the fellow will be responsible for doing daily clinical rounds, managing all the cases under pulmonary service, and conducting teaching of the junior staff in consultation with a pulmonary consultant.
2. Consultations: The demand for pulmonary service is very high; average daily consultations are around 10-15 consolations. The fellow usually is the first on call for consolation; he/she will distribute the work among junior staff (residents and interns) and will review all the cases and discus all the cases with consultants
3. Clinics: The clinics' coverage will be distributed every month among all fellows. The fellow will have the chance to be exposed to general pulmonary and subspecialty clinics and different consultants.
4. Procedure:

• Bronchoscopy: Each fellow will be given a chance to perform all appropriate procedures under his consultant for all patients he cares for in inpatient services, consultations, or OPC. They also have the chance to benefit from all consultants skills and perform various bronchoscopy related procedures BAL, TBBx, etc
• Pleural aspiration, biopsy, etc
• Sleep study hook up and scoring and interpretation –
• Interpretation of pulmonary function test/ pulmonary challenging test/ walking pulse oximetry, and
• Pulmonary rehabilitation procedures and protocol.

Admission to pulmonary fellowship training program:

The pulmonary fellowship program at KAMC is part of a combined fellowship program under SCFSH.

Admission to the program requires acceptance by the scientific and organizing committee at SCFSH, which interviews all applicants applying for the fellowship through SCFSH. The second step after acceptance of the organizing and scientific committee, the candidate should guarantee sponsorship for his training.

The acceptance at KAMC- in the fellowship training mandate first acceptance by the scientific and organizing committee at SCFSH. It also requires acceptance by the pulmonary service and approval of Postgraduate Medical Education as per NGHA terms and conditions. This includes doing an interview for all applicants and choosing the best candidate for sponsorship.

The program applies the terms and conditions required by SCFSH. The fellows will be rotating among different hospitals recognized and accredited by SCFSH for pulmonary training. The rotation and period for each fellow will be decided by pulmonary fellowship organizing and scientific committee.

Contact Us:

Abdullah AlHarbi

Program Director

MC-1443l King Abdulaziz Medical City-Riyadh, P.O. Box 22490, Riyadh.11426

• Fax : 00966-1-8011111 Ext: 14229/14212
• Email : Harbia7@ngha.med.sa

M.T. Trish Lozad

Program Coordinator

MC-1443l King Abdulaziz Medical City-Riyadh, P.O. Box 22490, Riyadh.11426

• Phone: 00966-1-8011111 Ext:17597
• Fax : 00966-1-8011111 Ext: 14229/14212
• Email: LozadaM@ngha.med.sa