Doctors specializing in Pneumonology need to have broad, sufficient training in Internal Medicine, and to acquire knowledge of the physiology and pathology of the respiratory system, the diagnostic techniques and the correct application, interpretation and assessment of these, and the appropriate therapeutic tools.

In addition, doctors in training must be capable of interpreting experimental and epidemiological data and collaborating on aspects of preventive medicine, public health, teaching and research in relation to Pneumonology.

Pneumonology is the medical specialty that deals with the study of the physiology and pathology of the respiratory system, and the diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive techniques necessary to achieve its objectives.

The technique most related to Pneumonology is the performance of diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopies.