These laboratories serve the daily diagnostic needs of the hospitals but also house the regional reference laboratories of virology and chlamydiae, anaerobic bacteriology, parasitology, mycology, mycobacteriology, mycoplasmology and the central media laboratory. Residents rotate through each laboratory. There are eighteen faculty members, including Medical Microbiologists, Clinical Microbiologists and Infectious Diseases physicians. The second year includes infection control, laboratory management, anaerobic bacteriology, media manufacture and quality control, public health microbiology and further experience in the first year disciplines at the request of the resident. A basic science and clinical microbiology seminar series supplements this approach.
Performance appraisal is on-going and cognitive knowledge assessment occurs yearly.
Residents are required to design and carry-out a series of research projects. Funding to present findings is available.