The Pass Machine : Pulmonary Disease Board Review Course

Topics And Speakers:

1-Obstructive Lung Disease

Asthma: Overview & Treatment (1 Hour)
Raj Dasgupta, MD
Asthma: Special Circumstances (0.5 Hours)
Raj Dasgupta, MD
COPD (1 Hour)
Raj Dasgupta, MD
Obstructive Airway Disease (1 Hour)
Jonathan Puchalski, MD

2- Critical Care

Non-Lung (1.5 Hours)
Jonathan Puchalski, MD
Lung – Ventilator Modes & Respiratory Mechanics (0.5 Hours)
Jonathan Puchalski, MD
Lung – ARDS, Weaning & Non-invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation (1.5 Hours)
Jonathan Puchalski, MD

3-Sleep Medicine/Neuromuscular/Skeletal

Respiratory (1 Hour)
Shirin Shafazand, MD
Non-Respiratory – Physiology, Polysomnography & Insomnia (1 Hour)
Raj Dasgupta, MD
Non-Respiratory – Hypersomnia, Circadian Disorders & Parasomnias (1 Hour)
Raj Dasgupta, MD
Congenital, Neuromuscular & Skeletal (1 Hour)
Jonathan Puchalski, MD

4-Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease

Restrictive Lung Disease – Basics of Physiology & Classification (0.75 Hours)
Shirin Shafazand, MD
An Approach to Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Disease (1 Hour)
Shirin Shafazand, MD
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (0.75 Hours)
Shirin Shafazand, MD
Occupational & Environmental Disease (1.5 Hours)
Jonathan Puchalski, MD

5-Infections

Sepsis (1.25 Hours)
Robert A. Balk, MD
Abscess, Emboli & Pneumonias (1.25 Hours)
Robert A. Balk, MD
Fungal & Mycobacterial Disease (1 Hour)
Jonathan Puchalski, MD
Opportunistic Pathogens & Bronchiolar Disease (1.25 Hours)
Fayez Kheir, MD

6-Neoplasms

Diagnosis, Evaluation & Tumor Pathology (1.5 Hours)
Douglas A. Arenberg, MD
Epidemiology, Treatment & Syndromes (1.25 Hours)
Douglas A. Arenberg, MD

7-Basic Science and Physiology

Cell & Molecular Biology (1 Hour)
Douglas A. Arenberg, MD
Physiology & Metabolism (1 Hour)
Jonathan Puchalski, MD

8-Quality, Safety, and Ethics

Quality, Safety & Complications (1 Hour)
Jonathan Puchalski, MD
Ethics (0.5 Hours)
Jonathan Puchalski, MD

9-Pleural Disease

Pleural Disease (1 Hour)
Jonathan Puchalski, MD

10-Epidemiology and Statistics
Epidemiology & Statistics (1 Hour)
Shirin Shafazand, MD

11-Vascular Disease

Pulmonary Vascular Diseases (1 Hour)
Shirin Shafazand, MD
Thromboembolic Disease (1 Hour)
Shirin Shafazand, MD

12-Transplantation

Transplantation (1 Hour)
Shirin Shafazand, MD