Challenges of training in pulmonary medicine in India.

Abstract

challenges in its growth than its sister specialities of medicine. The confusion is reflected in the very use of an array of terms used for its nomenclature (Table 1), while several of these terms are not commonly used in India.1 Consensus has somehow eluded in spite of the felt-need for an universally acceptable terminology. There is further compounding of confusion because of the lack of standardisation of requirements of attributes for training. There is an unfinished debate on the issue of treating pulmonology as a sub-(or super-) speciality of medicine. Pulmonary Medicine as a Super-speciality