On average, division staff handle approximately 80 inpatient consults and 285 outpatient visits per month. Fellows participate in plate rounds in Clinical Microbiology on a weekly basis, and participate in an intensive training experience in clinical microbiology. Fellows participate in rounds with the solid organ transplantation team and rotate through the travel medicine clinic. During the first year, each fellow selects a faculty member who is responsible for guiding research training during the second and third years. Fellows are free to select from a broad range of research opportunities in basic, patient based, or epidemiologic research as well as in research in Clinical Microbiology.
Fellows also enhance their education by enrolling in courses related to their research interests.
These courses may include Bioethics, Biostatistics, Bacterial Pathogenesis, Basic Principles of Clinical Microbiology, Immunology, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Basic Principles of Infection Control and Epidemiology, etc. Fellows are aided in their research endeavors by a review committee which periodically evaluates the progress of each fellow. T he fellowship training program is organized primarily to meet the needs of those strongly considering an academic career. It is committed to training individuals to become critical and analytical thinkers in the subspecialty of Infectious Diseases. An NIH interdisciplinary Infectious Diseases Training Grant funded since 1988 provides stipends for candidates who choose a career path in research and related basic science coursework.