Where do you standin pulmonology?
Twenty real cases build your private map: where you’re solid, what to brush up. You compare yourself with the field. Nobody grades you.
8 minutes. One case. One clinical decision. Go at your own pace — one case or the full season. Earn credit at every milestone and keep what you’ve earned. No schedule, no pressure.
Not a lecture. Not a question bank. Twenty patients and the calls you would make.
Part of the US Pulmonology Championship 2026. Fall Finals run 12 weeks and close December 8.
Your CME hours, aimed at your real gaps.
Sample view. Reach along a spoke = share of decision stages you called right.
Built and reviewed by practicing pulmonologists.
Cases, scoring, and debriefs are built with a faculty committee spanning pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine.
Faculty names appear here as each reviewer confirms and completes disclosure.
The committee is being assembled across pulmonary subspecialty areas.
See how you think. See where you stand.
Pulmonology is rarely about knowing one right answer. It’s about deciding what to do next.
Explore challenging patient cases, navigate evolving clinical scenarios, and compare your decisions with pulmonologists across the country.
The US Pulmonology Championship 2026 is now open.
Normal spirometry.
Breathless on the stairs.
So far: Inhalers started empirically, no response. Chest X-ray read as normal.
On testing: Spirometry near-normal. Symptoms out of proportion to it.
Question: What do you order next — and what are you ruling out?
The Fall Finals. Drop in anytime.
Enter the Fall Finals, earn CME credit case by case, and compete for a place in the national pulmonology standings for 2026.
Fall Finals
A 12-week flight of 20 branching simulations — 16 accredited for CME credit. Hidden conditions, real management decisions. Earn Faculty Honor, Top Champion, and State Champion.
National recognition. Earned, not assigned.
No nominations and no institutional gatekeeping. The leaderboard reflects the decisions you make inside the same clinical challenges as pulmonologists nationwide.
Champion of US Pulmonology 2026
Top performer in the Championship Finals, announced live in December. The national title for US community pulmonologists.
National Frontline
The physicians who first see, screen, and route the hard cases. Top 20 nationally for 2026.
State Champion of Pulmonology 2026
Top performer in each state with at least 10 participants. State Frontline awarded in states with deeper fields.
Two ways to compete.
The simulator is the core of the program — duels put your reasoning to the test head-to-head.
Clinical Simulator
Work a full patient case the way you would in clinic, with feedback at every step.
Duel
Challenge another pulmonologist to ten focused questions and earn points for the leaderboard.
Points from cases and duels rank you on national and state leaderboards. CME credit is earned only through the accredited simulations — duels and the leaderboard carry no separate credit.
CME Credit
Accumulate credits based on time spent viewing individual cases
and claim credits at your convenience.
Up to 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Earned case by case across the Fall Finals. Claim only the credit commensurate with your participation.
Up to 4.0 ABIM MOC points
Registered for ABIM MOC. Claim only the points commensurate with your participation.
The Opening Case is designated for 0.25 credits
Free, no full registration. Start it now, then claim the 0.25 credit with your name and email.
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Partners for Advancing Clinical Education (Partners) and Eximion Medical Education. Partners is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Complete accreditation information is published on each activity page.
Validated methodology The same simulation platform, in its oncology debut season, put 1,319 physicians across five countries in front of more than 19,000 real clinical decisions — a 55 percent completion rate. The same engine now runs the pulmonology season.
Questions, answered.
The practical details before you start your first case.
Yes. No fee, no membership, no payment details. It's open to any US pulmonologist with an active NPI. A one-time NPI check applies only when you enter the ranked championship; the Opening Case needs no account at all.
Up to 15 minutes per simulation. You work through cases at your own pace, one sitting or many.
Up to 4 hours total for the accredited cases in a season. You can earn 0.25 CME credits per accredited case, up to 4.0 per season.
Yes. The simulations run in your browser on phone, tablet, or desktop. There's no app to install.
That's fine. Drop in and out at any point. Every credit you claim is yours to keep, whether you complete one case or all of them.
Your decisions are benchmarked anonymously against the national field. Everyone competes anonymously under a pseudonym; your real name and affiliation are never shown to anyone, including other participants.
Start with the Opening Case.
Start with a free seven-minute challenge — no account needed. Complete it, pass a one-time NPI check, and take your place in the national pulmonology standings before the Fall Finals close December 8.