Infectious Disease Fellowship
About the Program
Program Aims
The Infectious Disease Fellowship at University of Iowa Health Care has the following aims:
- To mentor trainees from diverse backgrounds to be outstanding ID clinicians, exemplary in their patient care
- To train leaders of healthcare teams that optimize patient safety and healthcare quality
- To train physician-scholars who expand medical and scientific knowledge through teaching, research, and publication
Judy Streit, MD, discusses the aims of the program.
Fellows as Clinician Educators Program (FACE)
For future clinician-educators.
Interdisciplinary Fellowship Conference
Common curriculum for fellows in a divisions of the Department.
Dr. Streit discusses where our fellows have gone after completing the program.
Ilonka Molano, MD, provides an Associate Program Director’s view of the program.
Clinical Rotations/Other Curriculum
Overview for Year One and Year Two.
Core Curriculum Lecture Series
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
Conferences
- Infectious Disease Grand Rounds (weekly): Two cases are presented by the fellows or staff as unknowns, discussed with the audience to develop a differential diagnosis, and pertinent literature reviewed
- Core Curriculum Conference (weekly): didactic lectures by faculty cover a broad range of general and specialty ID topics over a 2 year-cycle
- Journal Club (monthly)
- Research conference (weekly): progress on ongoing research activity by members of the Division is presented (ID Faculty and Fellows’ Conference)
- ID Week – Year 2
- Annual Update in Infectious Diseases Meeting
- Internal Medicine Grand Rounds and other Departmental conferences
- Clinical Micro tutorials 1-2 times per week
- Departmental Interdisciplinary Fellows’ Curriculum (twice-monthly): presentations on ethics, coding and billing, statistics, sleep deprivation, practice management or other topics that are required for all Internal Medicine fellows [view schedule]