The ID curriculum includes the consult/clinical assignments, specialty rotations such as Hospital Epi, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Clinical Micro, Travel Clinic and various conferences. For more information about the consult/clinic assignments, specialty rotations or conferences, please see sections dedicated to that information. Another important component of the curriculum is the fellows’ core curriculum lecture series which follows a 2-year cycle. These conferences are given by ID faculty as well as faculty from other divisions and departments, such as GI, Pulmonary, Radiology and Dermatology. The range of topics covered include the following, which is not an exhaustive list:
- Fungal, viral, bacterial infections
- Parasitology lecture series
- HIV lecture series
- Tropical Medicine
- Principles of Hospital Epidemiology
- Calls to the Epi Pager
- Infections associated with Transplant
- Antimicrobial Stewardship
- CNS Infections
- STIs
- Health Equity
- Mimics of ID
- Outbreak Evaluation
- Pneumonia
- Infections associated with biologic agents
- NTM and TB Infections
- Viral hepatitis
- Research Study Design
- Imaging in MSK infections
- CMV/EBV infection
- Tropical Medicine cases
- Derm manifestitions of systemic infections