Infectious Disease Fellowship Program

During year one, the Infectious Disease fellow will rotate through three general ID consultation services for an average of two to three months on each service. The idea is that fellows have a broad clinical experience in the area of general infectious disease in three different settings: a large public academic hospital (Jackson Memorial Hospital), a private academic hospital (UHealth Tower/University of Miami Hospital and Clinics Facility) and a federal hospital (Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center). Fellows will also rotate in microbiology, clinics and research electives.

During year two, fellows can choose to pursue a specialization track. All second-year fellows will have two months of clinical consultation service in the transplant and immunosuppressed units, two-month rotation as a teaching fellow, two months of infection control and antimicrobial stewardship rotation and six months of research/electives. Fellows who decide on a specialization track (including antimicrobial stewardship; HIV medicine; infection control and hospital epidemiology; transplant infectious disease and tropical medicine, among others) will have clinics, electives, meetings and research mentors all related to the topic they choose.

During the second year of training, fellows have special training courses in antimicrobial stewardship (Infectious Diseases Society of America course); infection control (Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America course); sexually transmitted diseases (Boston Department of Public Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention course) and the opportunity to assist at the annual IDWeek Conference.

Fellows are eligible for infectious disease boards after two years of training. Fellows can apply for a third year in transplant infectious disease, available in our institution (application is separate from general infectious disease). Fellows in the HIV track can apply for a third translational research year depending on the research funding opportunities, as discussed/worked out with mentors.

The HIV outpatient continuity care experience takes place during all years of fellowship at Jackson Memorial Hospital HIV clinics and the VA Medical Center HIV Clinic. Non-HIV outpatient training occurs during the second year of fellowship at the ID fellow’s clinic at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Other accessible facilities include: Miami Transplant Institute clinics; UHealth Tower clinics (travel medicine clinic); Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center clinics (immunocompromised infectious disease clinic); VA Medical Center (allergy and immunology clinic; HIV/TB, HIV/Hepatitis virus coinfection clinics; HPV and anoscopy clinic and wound care clinics); HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis clinic and IDEA exchange for needle exchange program mobile unit.
Throughout the entire fellowship, trainees will attend the following weekly educational conferences:
Journal Club: An educational conference during which prominent articles from the recent ID literature are presented and discussed.

Monthly Tropical Medicine Teleconference: Challenging tropical medicine cases are discussed by attendings from different countries. The conference is attended by ID physicians from Miami, Peru and Spain.

Transplant Meetings: A monthly case presentation and journal club are dedicated specifically to transplant and immunosuppressed hosts.

Weekly Infectious Disease Case Conference: A teaching conference with the purpose of discussing challenging ID cases.

Weekly Seminars: A longitudinal educational board review curriculum.

The fellow also has the opportunity to attend the Center for AIDS Research and Clinical and Translational Science Institute weekly educational lectures and can pursue several electives, including international tropical medicine; ocular infections; pediatric ID; tuberculosis ID; wound care and penicillin skin testing.

Fellows are expected to participate in scholarly activities and quality improvement projects throughout their training. Fellows can choose one or multiple research mentors that will longitudinally guide them throughout their experience. Abstract submission for poster presentations at national meetings and manuscript submissions are also encouraged.