Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

Program Director: Tiffany Dumont, DO
Accreditation: ACGME
Program Length: 3 years (PGY4-PGY6)
Fellowship Compliment:
9 Pulm CCM Fellows (3 per year)
1 Nephrology/CCM Track Fellow (PGY6)
1 Cardiology/CCM Track Fellow (PGY6)
2 Infectious Disease/CCM Track Fellows

Quick guide to Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine Fellowship

Application Information
Curriculum
Faculty
Fellows
Wellness
Research

About the program

Welcome to the Allegheny Health Network (AHN) Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Website. Our fellowship is accredited by the ACGME as a three-year combined program providing leading-edge training in both pulmonary and critical care medicine.  

Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) is the flagship hospital for AHN, it is a 576-bed quaternary care and educational hospital training over 500 residents and fellows across 46 accredited academic programs.  Our division has grown, under the leadership of our division chair, Dr. Tariq Cheema, which has brought expanding opportunities for our fellows.  Our fellows are an integral part of our division and work alongside the attendings in a truly collegial fashion.  Our fellows receive outstanding clinical training rotating in our, comprehensive Bronchoscopy Laboratory with hands-on training in robotic bronchoscopy, EBUS bronchoscopy, cryobiopsy, stent placement, endobronchial valve placement, and percutaneous tracheostomy placement alongside our interventional pulmonologists. 

Fellows also rotate through the Comprehensive Pulmonary Function Laboratory, offering cardiopulmonary exercise testing; our Sleep Disorders Center, a multidisciplinary ILD clinic and the 5 specialized intensive care units at AGH. Our program combines intense clinical rotations, ample teaching opportunities, and clinical research experience opportunities to train outstanding doctors and leaders.

We offer a Research Track for those individuals who are interested in pursuing careers as clinical investigators. This track provides strong clinical training aligned with the fellow’s area of basic or clinical research.

The Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship also offers a critical care track for AGH Infectious Disease Fellows, an AGH Nephrology Fellow, and a Cardiology Fellow who is interested in becoming critical care board certified. For further information regarding our critical care track please see the attached curriculum and visit their website for further details for applying.

Nephrology Fellowship program

Infectious Disease Fellowship program

Heart Failure Fellowship program

Program Mission

The Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship provides an integrative, collegial, inclusive and supportive learning environment while educating PCCM/CCM fellows to be devoted to providing passionate, responsible, ethical and humanistic care in the community.

Program Aims

• We aim to be an advanced comprehensive fellowship by providing clinical, procedural and didactic experiences for our fellows, enabling our graduates to become well-rounded confident subspecialty physicians.
• We are committed to creating an inclusive culture centered on the patient with a focus on quality, safety, and collaboration. 
• We strive for quality core conferences integrating other subspecialties to
  provide a strong learning environment.
• We aim to provide an opportunity and environment for quality scholarly
  activities that will enhance professional growth.  
• We aim to educate subspecialists who are lifelong learners dedicated to serving their community in a professional and compassionate way while meeting their own personal endeavors.
• We foster a collegial and supportive environment that promotes wellness, equity, tolerance, respect, diversity, and inclusion.

Director's Statement

Welcome! We want to thank you for your interest in our Pulmonary and Critical Care program. The division of pulmonary and critical care medicine is dedicated to excellence in patient care and education, and the fellowship is a fundamental part of this mission since its inception in 1976.  We are looking for enthusiastic, hardworking, compassionate physicians to join our PCCM fellowship program and become part of our team.

Our vision is to provide you with a comprehensive training experience exposing you to diverse pathology across all facets of pulmonary and critical care medicine.  You will be working in a collegial environment with an emphasis on lifelong learning with mentors to foster your growth in your select areas of interest. Our fellows log over 1,000 procedures before graduation, and we at this fellowship are dedicated to helping you achieve your career goals while building lifelong friendships along the way.  We would love to tell you more about our team and what our fellowship has to offer!

We look forward to meeting you!

About Graduate Medical Education

The Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship program is part of the Graduate Medical Education (GME) opportunities offered by the AHN Medical Education Consortium. Learn more about Graduate Medical Education.

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