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Welcome
To Harbor-UCLA
Harbor-UCLA
Medical Center has a unique
identity. It is both a public hospital and one of the major teaching
hospitals of
the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and our program in the
Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine
offers a highly educational, rewarding, and challenging
experience.Teaching is the major focus of
the Division, and we believe that you will get a unique perspective on
pulmonary disease and critical care medicine with a strong
"physiology-based" focus.
Our
fellows see a wide range of pulmonary disease and critical illness.
In particular, our patient population allows us to see acute and
chronic diseases (asthma, COPD, interstitial lung disease, sarcoidosis)
that most training programs have available. However, we have a
fair share of difficult-to-manage tuberculosis, patients with
refractory asthma, and lung cancer presenting in all stages. Our
ICU is an "open" model with the desireable features of a "closed ICU,"
in that fellows and attendings provide mandatory consultation on all
aspects of critical illness. Thus, we are not "limited" to
providing input into ventilator management or treatment of shock; we
participate in decision-making about the diagnosis of sepsis, severe
rhematologic diseases, acute renal failure, pulmonary embolism, and GI
bleeding. The
bottom line? Our graduates of our training program get an
outstanding education at Harbor-UCLA, and they learn the basic
physiology and pathophysiology that allow them to become "consultants
to consultants." Over 80 graduates from our program are practicing in
California, the rest of the US, and in other countries.
We hope that you will strongly consider
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center for the next phase of your medical career in
internal medicine. For more information, please download the 2010 Training Program
Brochure.
hank you for your
interest.
Kathy E. Sietsema MD, Chief and Program Director
Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
