BACKGROUND The Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital is a two-year program designed to be in accordance with the guidelines set forth by the ACGME and ABIM to guarantee individuals completing the program will be eligible for board certification in critical care medicine and competent to independently practice within the specialty of critical […]
Fellowship Curriculum
See specific rotations for detailed descriptions. The overall goal of the fellowships in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (CCM) is to provide trainees with the intellectual environment for acquiring the knowledge, skills, clinical judgment, and attitudes that are essential to the practice of pulmonary and/or critical care medicine. Whether you are in a combined fellowship […]
Time zone on the Pulm server
This post serves to document that up until today, Pulm server time zone was off by 8 hours (at 2pm server was recording the time as 6 am). Any fields dated before 9/25/2015 should account for this time discrepancy (i.e the Quality Rounds database).
Professional Development Account (PDA)
Attached are some important reference documents regarding PDA accounts PDA Card Quick Reference Guide current TRAVEL AND EXPENSE GUIDEDLINES PDA policy Dr Senior Staff
Orders for Sleep Referral
Sleep Studies (General Sleep Study order SLE9) There are required questions on the General Sleep Study that determines the optimal study. Also designed to submit the appropriate claims to their insurance companies and to get prior auth. I recommend documenting in your notes the Stop Bang and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale scores. Both of them […]
Outpatient Curriculum – COPD
You have a 58 yo male patient who is evaluated because of worsening dyspnea, chronic productive cough, and increasing sputum production. He has a 30 pack-year smoking history. Spirometry shows a FEV1/FVC ratio <0.7. FEV1 is 60% of predicted. He enjoys daily walks with his neighbors, but has to walk slower than others because of […]
First Post on Outpatient Curriculum – Asthma
For the first clinic discussion of the week, the topic is asthma. I have a clinical scenario for you: Your 23-year-old female patient is evaluated because of a 4-week history of cough, wheezing, and chest tightness. She reports daytime symptoms more than twice weekly, but not daily; she has had nighttime symptoms 3-4 times during […]
Coming Soon
As an FYI, we will be posting the weekly outpatient discussion topics as part of the outpatient curriculum. Look here, for the weekly updates, including links to the pertinent articles to be read prior to the discussions.
Level of Service Preferences and Modifiers for PFTs or Vaccines
For any CLINIC VISIT WITH PFTs OR IMMUNIZATION on the same day, please add the Modifier ‘25’. Please see attached for how to do this. I have created favorites (I already asked, I cannot just share this with everyone) for established and new visits with and without the modifer. Adding LOS codes PFT or Immunization […]