The educational foal is to encourage residents to assume progressively increasing responsibility as clinicians and teachers. Immunology training is provided at NSHS and includes primary immunodeficiency diseases and pediatric HIV disease. Included in the program are mandatory rotations through a private office, in pulmonary medicine, bone marrow transplantation and the department of laboratories. Resident research is an essential component of the program and academic enhancement is achieved via lectures, seminars and journal clubs. This training is provided against a clinical backdrop that enables the trainee to become a consultant in the field of diagnostic immunology.
Independent research is also an integral component of the program.