Training bronchoscopists for the new era

Gustav Killian introduced bronchoscopy a little more than a century ago. At that time, the only way others could learn to perform bronchoscopy was by one-on-one tutoring, using a rigid bronchoscope with no side portals and no imaging devices such as a television camera and monitor. One-on-one teachi ng remains an integral part of learning how to perform bronchoscopy well, b ut many new technologies have emerged that make it far less labor intensive to train bronchoscopists. This article focuses on the training of bronchos copists for the new era.