Allergy and Clinical Immunology Elective Rotation
Contact Information:
Pat Constant, Program Coordinator
988-5584 (office)
Laurianne G. Wild, MD, Chief, Section of Allergy, Asthma & Rheumatology
Director, Allergy & Immunology Fellowship Program
220-6692 (cell), 528-4508 (beeper)
Office location: 1700 Perdido Street, 3rd floor
Conferences:
Monday: Journal Club/Primer Review 8-9 amPerdido Street Library
Practice Parameters Review 9-10 amPerdido Street Library
Friday:Clinical Conference 8-9 amChildren’s Hospital 4th fl.
Fellows Case Conference 9-10 amChildren’s Hospital 4th fl.
Abbas Immunology Review10-11 amChildren’s Hospital 4th fl.
Reading List:Residents are provided with an Allergy and Immunology Syllabus.
The Practice Parameter Guidelines can be found at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology website:
Evaluationof resident/rotation:
The residents will be asked to evaluate the rotation and the fellow with whom they spent the most of their time, at the completion of the rotation.
The faculty will evaluate the resident at the completion of the rotation.
Goals of the rotation:
- Learn to evaluate and manage patients with different types of rhinitis.
- Learn to evaluate and manage patients with asthma with a focus on the new NHLBI asthma management guidelines.
- Learn to evaluate and manage patients with urticaria and angioedema, and the potential etiologies for this presentation.
- Learn the appropriate use and interpretation of various allergy and immunology laboratory studies, including interpretation of spirometry.
- Learn when it is appropriate to evaluate for possible immunodeficiency in patients with recurrent infection and the approach to the diagnostic evaluation.
- Learn who is a candidate for allergen immunotherapy and the risks and benefits of this form of therapy.
Teaching Methods:Residents will directly work with both faculty and fellows at various locations. They will attend Journal Club, Practice Parameters Review, Fellows’ Case Conference, and Abbas Immunology Review. They will be provided with a syllabus, which they are expected to complete by the completion of the rotation. They will perform a pre-test and a post-test that will be developed from the Syllabus.
Diseases:1. Urticaria and Angioedmea
2. Asthma
3. Immunodeficiency (the approach to the patient)
4. Allergic and non-allergic rhinitis
5. Food allergy
6. Anaphylaxis
Sites of Rotation:
Monday
$Journal Club/Primer review8:00 – 9:00 am
$Practice Parameters Review9:00 – 10:00 am
+VA clinic1:00 – 5:00 pm
Tuesday
@Ochsner A&I Clinic8:00 – 5:00 pm
Wednesday
@Ochsner A&I Clinic8:00 – 5:00 pm
Or
#Tulane Peds A&I8:30 – 5:00 pm
Thursday
^Tulane Adult A&I Clinic8:30 – 5:00 pm
Or
Tulane Peds A&I Clinic8:30 – 5:00 pm
Friday
~ Clinical Research Conference8:05 – 9:00 am
~Fellows Case Conference9:00 – 10:00 am
Locations:
$ 1700 Perdido St., 3rd floor library
+ VA Clinic, 9G – 1600 Perdido St. (9th Floor of the Garage)
@ Ochsner 2nd Floor Internal Medicine Clinic, in the Atrium, 1514 Jefferson Hwy
#Peds Clinic, Tulane Lakeside Clinic Bldg, Clearview Service Road.
^ Tulane Lung Center, 7th Floor, 1415 Tulane Ave. (Hospital and Clinics Bldg.)
Peds Clinic, 5th Floor, 1415 Tulane Ave. (Hospital and Clinics Bldg.)
~Children’s Hospital, Research and Education Bldg., 200 Henry Clay (across from the tennis courts in the back)
Patient Demographics: variety of patient payers at each location.
Procedures:Residents will observe performance of skin testing and will be able to interpret results, but will not perform the procedure.
Interpretation of Spirometry results, but will not perform the procedure.
Other educational resources:
These are websites that contain online scenarios, review questions, etc.. for resident and fellow education.