The Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at the University of Iowa is ACGME accredited for two years, at the end of which the fellow will meet ABIM eligibility requirements.
Clinical training is concentrated in the first year of the program. Clinical rotations occur primarily at University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics and with lesser activity at the Iowa City VA Medical Center, which is located across the street from UI Hospitals & Clinics.
Core Curriculum Topics
Clinical topics (partial list from the didactic curriculum)
- Important viral, fungal, mycobacterial, and select bacterial infections
- Organ System Infections of CNS/Cardiovascular, head & neck, respiratory, urogenital tract, etc.
- Infections in immunocompromised hosts, including solid organ transplant and hematopoietic cell transplant patients & people living with HIV
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Vector-borne illness
- Zoonoses
- Clinical Microbiology and Lab diagnostics
- Travel & Tropical Medicine/Parasitology
- Hospital Epidemiology, healthcare-associated infections
- Tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacterial infections
- Principles of prophylaxis: vaccination or immunotherapeutics
- Pharmacy and antimicrobial stewardship topics: including pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic principles for prescribing, antimicrobial resistance, etc.
- MSK Imaging
- Toxin-mediated syndromes
- Infections related to intravenous drug use; Addiction Medicine
- Health Equity in Infectious Diseases
- Study Design
- Quality Improvement
- IDSA AMS Curriculum
Clinical Experience
Fellows will develop expertise in the evaluation and management of patients with the following disorders, clinical situations and related needs:
- Full range of organ system infections (e.g., cardiovascular, CNS, bone and joints, etc.)
- Patients who are neutropenic due to malignancies and their treatments
- Patients with solid organ or hematopoietic cell transplantation
- Patients with HIV/AIDS or immunocompromised by other diseases or their treatments
- Infections of devices/hardware
- Sepsis, trauma and/or other critical illness (Medical, Surgical, Neurosurgical, Cardiovascular ICUs)
- Healthcare-associated infections
- Array of pathogen types (Viral, Fungal, Mycobacterial, Parasitic, Bacterial)
- Infections in pregnancy
- Fever of unknown origin
- Antibiotic optimization in both inpatient and outpatient settings
- Infection Prevention, including immunizations
- Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Infections of foreign-borne persons or acquired from overseas travel
- Adverse side effects of antimicrobials