The primary objectives are that the trainee develop a working knowledge of the following
• Approach to the patient with the solitary pulmonary nodule
• Lung cancer screening1-4
• Non-malignant causes of pulmonary nodules
• Approach to the patient with the non-resolving infiltrate
• Approach to the patient with hemoptysis
• Current staging of both non-small cell and small cell lung cancer
• Indications for use of PET in the initial evaluation
• Use of bronchoscopic techniques including flexible bronchoscopy, endobronchial ultrasound and superdimension navigational bronchoscopy for both diagnosis and staging of suspected lung cancer
• Management of endobronchial lesions
• Basic path recognition
• Preoperative evaluation for patients undergoing definitive surgical resection of lung tumors
• Postoperative management of patients undergoing surgical resection
• Management of pulmonary complications of lung cancer therapies (radiation, chemotherapy, EGFR inhibitors)
• Management of malignant pleural effusions (pleurodesis, pleurx catheter)
• Approach to mediastinal masses
• Management of lung cancer in the elderly
• Approach to initial chemotherapeutic management of lung cancer including new agents
• Diagnosis and management of paraneoplastic syndromes
• Approach to smoking cessation counseling