Educational Curriculum Categories
CHEST's education mission is to provide formative interventions and resources based on current standards of care, promote adult learning principles, utilize a structured curriculum, and meet or exceed current guidelines of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. Our educational curriculum is based on the American Board of Internal Medicine blueprints.
- Advocacy
- Coding, billing, and reimbursement
- Digital health
- Health care access
- Legislation
- Regulation
- Social determinants of health
- Cardiovascular Disorders
- Acute coronary syndromes
- Arrhythmias
- Heart failure
- Hemodynamic monitoring
- Vascular disorders
- Valvular heart disease
- Pericardial disease
- Myocardial disease
- Mechanical circulatory support
- Transplanted heart
- Critical Care Ultrasound Scanning
- Cardiac
- Pulmonary
- Abdominal
- Neurologic
- Vascular
- Cultural Diversity
- End-of-life care for patients from diverse cultures/religions
- Inclusive health care
- Multicultural populations
- Religious perspectives in medical care
- Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease (DPLD)
- Interstitial lung disease (ILD) associated with systemic inflammatory disease
- Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias
- Granulomatous interstitial lung diseases
- Diffuse cystic lung diseases (DCLDs)
- Radiation-induced pneumonitis and fibrosis
- Drug-induced interstitial lung disease
- Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
- Constrictive bronchiolitis (idiopathic and toxic exposure-induced)
- Genetic/familial rare interstitial lung diseases
- Other rare interstitial lung diseases
- Unclassifiable
- Epidemiology
- Interpretation of clinical studies
- Pandemic response
- Gastrointestinal Disorders
- Hematologic and Oncologic Disorders
- Transfusion medicine
- Oncologic syndromes
- Hematopoietic cell transplantation
- Complications of immunosuppressive drugs and chemotherapy
- Infectious Disease
- Host defense mechanisms
- Vaccination
- Common syndromes of pulmonary infection
- Major pathogens in pulmonary infection
- Extrapulmonary infections in the ICU
- Systemic infections
- Central nervous system infections
- Head, neck, and upper airway infections
- Cardiovascular infections
- Gastrointestinal and intraabdominal
- Genitourinary tract infections
- Soft tissue, bone, and joint infections
- Infections associated with nonvascular transcutaneous catheters
- Antimicrobial therapy and resistance
- Pharmacokinetics
- Infections in immunocompromised hosts
- Virulence factors
- Bioterrorism
- Hospital infection control
- Neoplasia
- Lung cancer
- Other intrathoracic tumors
- Malignant pleural disease
- Complications
- Pulmonary nodules
- Physiologic assessment for thoracic surgery
- Interventional pulmonary medicine and thoracic surgery
- Lung cancer screening
- Neurologic Disorders
- Brain death
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Seizures and status epilepticus
- Neuromuscular respiratory failure
- Coma, encephalopathy, and delirium
- Obstructive Lung Disease
- Asthma
- COPD
- Obstructive, other than asthma and COPD
- Occupational and Environmental Diseases
- Tobacco use treatment and smoking cessation
- Occupational asthma and work-exacerbated asthma
- Indoor and outdoor air pollution
- Barometric- or thermal-related disorders
- Pneumoconioses
- Toxic inhalations
- Environmental cancer risk
- Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Basic pharmacologic principles
- Adverse effects of drugs
- Toxicology, drug overdose, and poisoning
- Pleural Disease
- Pleural-specific pathology
- Pneumothorax
- Pleural effusion
- Diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
- Professional Development and Wellness Resources
- Burnout
- Career development
- Certification/recertification
- Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
- Educator development
- Leadership development
- Mentoring
- Work force
- Pulmonary Disease in Critical Care
- ARDS/acute lung Injury
- Respiratory failure
- Mechanical ventilation
- Hemoptysis
- Quality, Safety, and Complications
- Methods of assessing quality, safety, and patient satisfaction
- Methods for improving quality and safety
- Complications of medical care
- Renal, Endocrine, and Metabolic Disorders
- Electrolyte disturbances
- Acid-base disorders
- Toxic ingestions
- Diabetes mellitus
- Acute renal failure
- Nutrition in the ICU
- Research, Administration, and Ethics
- ICU administration
- Staffing issues
- Medicolegal interactions
- Ethical considerations
- Brain death
- Conflict of interest
- Advance directives
- Patient confidentiality and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulation
- End-of-life issues
- Organ donation
- Medical futility
- Medical research
- Teaching and education
- Psychosocial issues
- Respiratory Physiology and Pulmonary Symptoms
- Respiratory physiology
- Approach to pulmonary symptoms
- Preoperative evaluation
- Altitude and diving
- Unique physiologic situations other than altitude/diving
- Sleep Medicine, Neuromuscular and Skeletal
- Sleep, Respiratory
- Sleep, Nonrespiratory
- Hypoventilation
- Surgery, Trauma, and Transplantation
- Cardiovascular and vascular surgery
- Abdominal and gastrointestinal
- Genitourinary and obstetric emergencies
- Skin and soft tissues and extremities
- Environmental injury
- General postoperative management
- Trauma
- Transplantation
- Vascular Disorders
- Venous thromboembolic disease (VTE)
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Pulmonary vasculitis and capillaritis
- Pulmonary vascular malformations
- Sickle cell disease