Is Pulmonologist actually your fit?

A 15-minute focused check — only the assessments that actually predict success in this role. No fluff, no full battery.

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Pulmonologist

Healthcare

Pulmonologists in India manage the full spectrum of respiratory disease — from the TB epidemic (including MDR/XDR-TB under NTEP) and high-burden COPD in smokers and biomass-fuel users, to interventional procedures like flexible bronchoscopy, EBUS (endobronchial ultrasound) for lung-cancer staging, and medical thoracoscopy. The entry path is MBBS → MD General Medicine (3 years via NEET-PG) → DM Pulmonary Medicine (3 years via NEET-SS), totalling nearly a decade of postgraduate training after MBBS. Premier training seats are at AIIMS New Delhi, PGIMER Chandigarh, JIPMER, Asian Institute of Chest Diseases (Hyderabad), PD Hinduja Hospital (Mumbai), Apollo Hospitals (Chennai), and Fortis (multiple). Daily work straddles three environments: high-volume OPD (asthma, COPD GOLD staging, TB follow-up, ILD surveillance), the bronchoscopy suite (BAL, TBLB, EBUS-TBNA), and the medical ICU (ARDS Berlin-criteria management, NIV, invasive ventilation). India's TB burden, rising lung-cancer incidence, post-COVID ILD cohort, and OSA diagnosis gap make pulmonology one of the highest-growth sub-specialities through the 2030s.

What you'll do

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Career Interests
7 min
Tells us if the day-to-day activities of this role energize you.
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Personality Profile
8 min
Reveals whether the working style this role demands fits how you naturally show up.

What you'll get — free

A clear fit verdict for Pulmonologist — strong, good, worth exploring, or stretch.
The 2-3 reasons it fits (or doesn't), based on what this role actually demands.
An honest signal on whether to keep exploring this path or look elsewhere.

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