Clinical/Clinician-Educator Track:  to prepare fellows for a career as an ID consultant and educator either in a private or academic setting:

1. Elective rotations in addition to those of the standard curriculum include those listed as electives under “Clinical Activities”
2. Antimicrobial Stewardship/Hospital Epidemiology electives, including participation in Infection Prevention Workgroup Meetings
3. IDSA Membership and during the second year, attendance at IDWeek
4. SHEA membership, if desired
5. Nomination to participate in IDSA Clinical Fellows Meeting or other clinical meeting of fellows’ choice
6. Participation in Department of Medicine Fellows as Clinician Educator Program (FACE), year 2, if desired
7. Tropical medicine opportunity (Brazil, India, Thailand)
8. Internal Medicine Resident ID curriculum teaching sessions, year 2
9. Participation in UIHC Quality Leadership Academy

This track prepares fellows for Infectious Disease careers with special emphasis in hospital epidemiology, health services research or healthcare quality, including antimicrobial stewardship.  It is anticipated that the majority of fellows who select this track are interested in an academic career.  Features of this track include the following (below). Components selected would depend on the professional goals of the individual trainee.

1. IDSA Membership (all) and SHEA Membership
2. Attendance at IDWeek, Year 2 (all)
3. IDSA’s Antimicrobial Stewardship basic (all) and advanced curricula 
4. Multiple months during year 2 (up to 6) participating in Antimicrobial Stewardship or Program of Hospital Epidemiology activities. The fellow would be expected to: a) embed within the AMS or Hospital Epi teams to develop knowledge and hands-on skills; b) contribute to the work of these teams or related committees; c) develop and implement quality improvement or scholarly projects mentored by faculty members from these areas. 
5. Completion of the SHEA online fellows’ course: Health Care Epidemiology, Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship (all)
6. Attendance at the SHEA meeting with completion of the Training Certificate Course in Healthcare Epidemiology or Antibiotic Stewardship
7. If an academic career is planned, paths to a Master’s of Public Health or Master’s of Science in Clinical Investigation during third and fourth research years are possible.  Usually these are combined with formal research fellowships (see below).  Coursework in statistics or epidemiology is possible for those not planning on a Master’s degree.
8. Nomination to the VA Quality Scholars Program or the VA Health Services Research Fellowship (Two-year research/QI fellowship following clinical fellowship).  (Note that federal regulations from 2022 make it difficult for visa-holders to be VA research fellows through these programs.) 
9. Participation in UIHC’s Quality Leadership Academy
10. Mentored Computational Epidemiology scholarly projects leading to published manuscripts
11. Development of ID physician surveys for the CDC’s Emerging Infections Network
12. Participation in UIHC’s Quality Leadership Academy

Physician Investigator Track: to prepare fellows for careers in ID-related laboratory science or clinical investigation.

1. Basic science emphasis
   1. Membership in specialty society related to research
   2. Support for 3rd and 4th years of research
      1. Parasitism Training Grant
      2. Immunology Training Grant
      3. T32 Training Grants at University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine (renewal due in 2025)
   3. Mentors/projects are available from within the ID division or from other divisions/departments (e.g., Microbiology, Immunology, Pulmonary Medicine, etc). Areas of focus within the ID division include:
      1. Inflammation and innate immunity [see faculty at Inflammation Program]
      2. Virology (Dr. Jack Stapleton , Dr. Jeff Meier, Dr. Sabrina Tan)
      3. Parasitology (Dr. Mary Wilson), including collaborative projects with Tropical Medicine Institute in Natal, Brazil (Selma Jeronimo, MD, PhD) and Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India)
      4. Vaccine Trials [see Vaccine Education and Research Unit]
      5. Other labs directed by Carver College of Medicine research faculty or University of Iowa departments
      6. Department of Microbiology and Immunology
   4. Scientific meeting during 2nd or 3rd year
2. Clinical Investigation
   1. Mentored involvement in clinical trials (vaccine trials, HIV, anti-viral therapies) (See Major Areas of Scholarly Work section)