Respiratory Medicine

Respiratory Medicine at Fiona Stanley Fremantle Hospitals Group provides a broad range of adult respiratory diagnostic and therapeutic services to both inpatients and outpatients.

At Fiona Stanley Hospital we provide tertiary level care with all range of acuity, with Fremantle Hospital serving as an extension of our ward as a step-down service.

The respiratory service is broadly divided into:

• General respiratory service
• Interventional pulmonology (including pleural diseases)
• Sleep medicine
• Advanced lung diseases unit.

Services at Fiona Stanley Hospital

Respiratory Medicine at Fiona Stanley Hospital provides a full range of services including assessment, diagnosis, medical treatment and management of conditions affecting the thorax and respiratory system.

Read more about these Fiona Stanley Hospital respiratory medicine services.

Services at Fremantle Hospital

Respiratory Medicine at Fremantle Hospital includes:

• comprehensive inpatient care for patients who require inpatient rehabilitation or longer-term medical treatment
• hospital consults service
• outpatient clinic
• pulmonary physiology
• pulmonary rehabilitation.

Read about Fremantle Hospital respiratory medicine services.

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Education and training opportunities

We provide educational and training opportunities for basic, advanced and post-fellowship clinical training across a wide range of sub-specialties within respiratory medicine.

We have an active research program including investigator-driven and industry-sponsored research. We also provide research supervision for medical students, basic and advanced trainees. In addition, we can tailor fellowship opportunities on a case-by-case basis.