We are happy to announce our 2023 - 2024 UIC IM Chief Residents! The future of the #UICIMFamily is in great hands!

We are incredibly excited to welcome these amazing individuals to the University of Illinois Department of Medicine and our #UICIMFamily! We cannot wait to meet you all and hope you have a wonderful day celebrating! Congratulations!!!

PAP was a topic of discussion at our last Advanced Lung Disease Conference! Check out this #infographic with some of the main points ⏬ #mededmonday #meded #lung #PCCM #lungtransplant #ILD

1/ 🚨🚨 It is Tuesday and time for another #RadiologyRounds! 🫁🩻 This week we'll take a look at multiple imaging modalities. Let's start with the initial CXR

Do you have a post-ICU recovery clinic in your practice? How is it structured? Many different models were found in this review by Dr. Bakhru and colleagues! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35291316/

UIC PCCM Fellows presenting at ATS 2022, and also a great time to catch up with one of our alumni from 2021 class #ATS2022 University of Illinois College of Medicine

A rare glimpse of a mythological creature makes an appearance in the #PleuralZoo today. #Nessie the #LochNessMonster. UK Pleural Society have you ever come across Nessie? David Feller-Kopman Pulm PEEPs AABIP

Congratulations to Jeffrey Jacobson UI Health attending of the year!!!

Pulm PEEPs don’t you hate it when you leave food on the counter and your #PleuralDog tries to eat it? Nasty example of an #empyema with pleural thickening. #PleuralZoo #LungPocus photo credit to Israel Acosta Sanchez uic_pccm

Excellent case conference today by one of our PGY3’s Aldon Whitehead discussing a case of DAH in a new diagnosis of aplastic anemia moderated by @patbelvitch and Irum Khan Key takeaways below University of Illinois Department of Medicine University of Illinois College of Medicine

Is there a better way to start the weekend than with an Endobronchial valve retrieval from RUL after a bronchopleural fistula by our amazing fellow Dr. Green. CHEST AABIP Chris Kapp

Wishing the best of luck to our recent graduates who took their critical care boards today and our third years on their pulmonary boards tomorrow. We are proud of you!!

Proud of our 3rd year fellows on becoming Board-Certified in Pulmonary Medicine!! Congratulations. #UIC #ABIM University of Illinois College of Medicine University of Illinois Department of Medicine UIC IM Chiefs

Airway clearance is crucial to the management of patients with bronchiectasis. Enjoy this informative infographics created by Malvika Kaul and Dharani Narendra

Kicking off our graduation week with an amazing potluck lunch by our incredible MICU staff!!! #MVP #graduates

🚨We have an unexpected PCCM fellowship spot starting next month (or later) as 1 of our new fellows is unable to join. If interested, please email your CV to our amazing coordinator Kelly [email protected] please retweet ❤️#fellowship #pccm UNMC Department of Internal Medicine

Congratulations to our exceptional graduating fellows! We are proud of you and we know you will all succeed!!! #PCCM #Attendings #MVP University of Illinois College of Medicine UIC IM Chiefs

Closing up our graduation week, with special s/o 📣 to our faculty (Dr. Binder Dr. Ferrer and Chris Kapp) and fellows (Dr. Kashyap and Israel Acosta Sanchez) who were nominated and awarded by the IM residency program UIC IM Chiefs for excellence in teaching. Congrats to all the graduates!!

From one of our greatest graduates from Class of 2022 and now faculty in our department Malvika Kaul . Go and take a look!!!

The newest addition to the #PleuralZoo? The coral reef! Note the plankton sign showing some cells floating and the hyperechoic nature of the fluid suggesting an exudative effusion. The pleura is also thickened - ⬆️ing the probability of a malignant effusion - which this was.