Course Description
Pulmonary and critical care medicine review for ABIM certification. Covers obstructive and restrictive lung diseases, pulmonary vascular disease, critical care, and pulmonary procedures.
Learning Objectives
- Interpret pulmonary function tests and arterial blood gases
- Manage COPD and asthma per GOLD and GINA guidelines
- Evaluate and treat interstitial lung diseases
- Diagnose and manage pulmonary embolism
- Apply critical care principles to respiratory failure
Topics
- Obstructive Disease: COPD, asthma, bronchiectasis
- Restrictive Disease: ILD, sarcoidosis, occupational lung disease
- Pulmonary Vascular: PE, pulmonary hypertension
- Infectious: Pneumonia, tuberculosis, fungal infections
- Pleural Disease: Effusions, pneumothorax, mesothelioma
- Sleep Medicine: OSA, hypoventilation syndromes
- Critical Care: ARDS, mechanical ventilation, shock
- Lung Cancer: Screening, staging, management
Materials
- 12 hours of video lectures
- 200+ pulmonary questions
- PFT interpretation exercises
- Chest imaging case studies