During the training program the resident:

1. Evaluates patients with lung neoplasia and recommends therapy based on their functional status, pulmonary function and tumor type;
   
   
2. Performs staging procedures (e.g., bronchoscopy, mediastinoscopy, mediastinotomy, and thoracoscopy);
   
   
3. Performs operations to extirpate neoplasms of the lung (e.g., local excision, wedge resection, segmental resection, lobectomy, pneumonectomy, sleeve lobectomy, carinal resection, chest wall resection);
   
   
4. Recognizes and manages complications of pulmonary resections (e.g., space problem, persistent air leak, bronchopleural fistula, bronchovascular fistula, empyema, cardiac arrhythmia);
   
   
5. Performs bedside bronchoscopies and placement of tracheostomies and/or minitracheostomies;
   
   
6. Recognizes and treats the early signs of non-cardiac pulmonary edema.