General Information

Introduction

Fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of North Carolina is sponsored by the Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.  The division is made up of a diverse group of physicans who are dedicated to training physicians in every aspect of the clinical and basic sciences of the respiratory system. 

At the end of a three year fellowship, trainees will be board eligible for certification in pulmonary and critical care medicine.

UNC Hospitals

The clinical programs of the Department of Medicine are based in the UNC Hospital, which serves as the principal teaching institution for the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.  UNC Hospitals includes North Carolina Children's Hospital, North Carolina Memorial Hospital, North Carolina Neurosciences Hospital, and North Carolina Women's Hospital. UNC is home to the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of a small number of National Cancer Institute-designated centers in the United States. Construction of the new N.C. Cancer Hospital at UNC Hospitals is now under way, with completion tentatively expected in 2009.

UNC Hospitals is a public, academic medical center operated by and for the people of North Carolina. The Hospitals' mission is to provide high quality patient care, to educate health care professionals, to advance research and to provide community service. UNC Hospitals is the cornerstone of UNC Health Care. People from all 100 North Carolina counties and throughout the Southeast are patients at the 724-bed facility - more than 31,000 each year.  UNC Hospitals is a Level I Trauma Center with active lung, heart-lung, heart, renal, pancreas, liver and bone marrow transplant programs.

UNC Health Care extends beyond Chapel Hill and into the greater Triangle area through its network of primary care and specialty physician practices located in Orange, Wake, Durham, Chatham Lee, Vance and Alamance counties. These offices, in addition to the UNC Family Practice Center and Ambulatory Care Center, provide the basic health care outpatient services most families need, in convenient neighborhood locations. Nearly a half-million people are cared for at UNC practices and clinics each year.