Thoracic and Sleep Medicine

Thoracic Medicine

Components of Training

Assessment

Before completion of training, you will be expected to present a minimum of one paper to a meeting of a major national or international society eg RACP or the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ), or to prepare an article accepted for publication by a peer review journal.

Other specific requirements:

• attend and participate in at least one meeting of the TSANZ or the Annual Scientific Meeting during the period of Advanced Training
  
• maintain a log book which documents performance of clinical procedures such as lung function tests and bronchoscopy. The minimum information required for each entry will be the patient's medical record number, the procedure performed, the outcome and whether the procedure was supervised. Competence will be based on the written record in the log book and the written report by your supervisors who will be asked to verify the details of the log book and your competence and experience.

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Research

If you carry out the whole three years of Advanced Training in a supervised research position, the SAC would not ordinarily approve such training unless the clinical component was equivalent to 2 years of clinical thoracic medicine.

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Training Posts

Centres at which programs of Advanced Training in paediatric thoracic medicine are undertaken should, ideally, have the following:

• at least one full-time paediatric thoracic paediatrician
  
• a paediatric lung function laboratory
  
• facilities for flexible and rigid bronchoscopy, nuclear medicine, thoracic surgery and an intensive care unit
  
• access to a laboratory with expertise in paediatric sleep investigations
  
• regular clinical thoracic meetings designed for teaching, for discussion of patients, radiographs, and for consultation with related disciplines
  
• library facilities with a range of paediatric and respiratory journals (either hard copy or on line).

The suitability of posts will be evaluated at intervals by the SAC.

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