Traditional Pulmonary Medicine

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Credits 0 to 10. 0 to 10 Other Hours. Exposure to a pulmonary consultative experience; rotation with pulmonary consultations at Baylor University Medical Center and in a doctor’s private office; exposure to patients with COPD, dyspnea, interstitial lung disease, pleural effusions, thromboembolic disease, and lung nodules, masses, and cancer; participation in bronchoscopies, thoracentesis, and pulmonary function testing; objectives of the rotation include interpretation of pulmonary function testing, interpretation of chest x-rays and CT scans, and appropriately address and understand the evaluation and management of dyspnea; airway diseases such as asthma, COPD, and bronchitis; pleural effusions; lung masses; thromboembolic diseases; and interstitial diseases (pulmonary fibrosis); some in-patient consultations in the surgical intensive care units. Prerequisite: Doctor of Medicine classification.