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Fellowships that change the job

Optional 1 to 2 year add-ons after residency.

• Critical care medicine

  Running the ICU (intensive care unit) full time. Ventilators, the sickest patients in the building, and the highest pay.

• Sleep medicine

  Sleep apnea and other sleep disorders. Reading overnight studies, daytime hours, steady income.

• Interventional pulmonology

  Advanced scopes: biopsying lung tumours, placing stents in airways, draining fluid.

• Lung transplant

  Only at a few centres. Managing the sickest lungs before and after a new pair.