THORACIC MEDICINE

Components of Training

Other Specific Requirements
Attendance at Meetings
Trainees are expected to attend and take part in at least one annual scientific meeting of the TSANZ during the three years of training.

Sleep Medicine
Trainees wishing to make sleep medicine an important part of their practice (eg to manage complex sleep breathing disorders and to report sleep studies) will be expected to undertake at least one year of training in clinical sleep medicine in an appropriate centre (see Sleep Medicine Guidelines, Levels I and II).

Logbook
Trainees are required to maintain a logbook which documents clinical procedures including bronchoscopy, transbronchial lung biopsy, tube thoracostomy and pleural biopsy. The information required for each procedure includes the medical record number, the procedure performed and the outcome of the procedure including any complications or unusual features. The logbook should state whether these procedures were supervised or unsupervised. Competence will be assessed on the basis of the written record of procedures in the logbook and the written assessment by supervisors who will be asked to verify the details of the logbook and the trainee's experience and competence.

Clinical Respiratory Physiology

• Those intending to make clinical respiratory physiology an important area of their practice (e.g. to specialise in complex respiratory function testing) are expected to spend at least one year of noncore training in a comprehensively equipped and staffed laboratory performing a wide range of respiratory function tests under the supervision of physicians specialising in this area of medicine.
  
• Those advanced trainees who wish to practise predominantly or solely in clinical respiratory physiology will be expected to undertake two years of core training in thoracic medicine and two years in clinical respiratory physiology. One year of respiratory physiology training may be devoted to full-time research. Trainees who wish to consider this option are encouraged to discuss it with the CAT in advance.

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