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The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship includes 12 months
of intensive clinical training and 24 months of clinical or laboratory-based
research.
Clinical Training
The majority of your first year will be spent in clinical activities,
including the inpatient and outpatient care of infectious diseases
in children with complex medical and surgical problems. You will
provide care for many children with cancer or those undergoing stem
cell or solid organ transplantation.
You also will rotate through the international clinic, the travel
and tropical medicine clinic, the HIV clinic and the tuberculosis
clinic. In addition, two months during the first year is spent in
the clinical microbiology laboratory.
Rotations
A typical rotation schedule includes:
| Clinical microbiology
course |
2 months |
| Pediatric Infectious Diseases Hospital Service |
8 months |
| Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Outpatient Clinic |
3 months |
| Travel and Tropical Medicine Clinic |
1 month |
| Research |
18-24 months |
| Electives |
4 months |
Electives
Elective time is available for additional training in:
- Travel and tropical medicine
- Microbiology
- Adult infectious diseases
- Transplant infectious diseases
- Orthopedic infectious diseases
- Infection control
- Off-campus clinical rotations
- International clinical rotations
- Molecular biology course
Didactic Training
Mayo Clinic's Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program has
an extensive didactic training program that includes:
- Weekly clinical case conference involving
current patients on the Pediatric Infectious Diseases hospital
service
- Weekly case conference held jointly with
the adult infectious diseases service
- Weekly core curriculum lecture series
- Weekly Pediatric Grand Rounds
- Bimonthly journal club, held jointly with
the adult infectious diseases service
- Monthly Infection and Immunity Club dinner
meeting with renowned invited speakers
Research Training
At Mayo Clinic, we believe research experience is integral to the
training of an academic pediatric infectious diseases specialist.
The Mayo Graduate School course “Practical Aspects of Research
with Pediatric and Adolescent Subjects” meets for one hour every
other week from January to June. This excellent course is required
for first-year pediatric infectious diseases fellows in order to
prepare them for their research years.
You will have the opportunity to choose between two tracks.
If you are interested in patient-oriented or epidemiologic research,
you are encouraged to complete a master's degree through the National
Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Clinical Research Training Program.
Epidemiologic research has focused on community-acquired respiratory
infections, nosocomial infections (including Clostridium difficile)
and tuberculosis.
If you are interested in laboratory-based research, you can choose
a mentor based on your particular research interests. Major areas
of laboratory-based research interest include molecular determinants
of HIV disease progression, genetic determinants of immune response
to vaccines, and the development of new diagnostic microbiologic
tests.
Your research will lead to the development of a presentation at
a national meeting and the preparation of a manuscript for publication
in a peer-reviewed journal. This qualifies you to sit for the Pediatric
Infectious Diseases Board Examination
See also:
Call Frequency
Fellows take call from home on the evenings/weekends that they are
assigned to the hospital service. There is no call during the other
rotations.
Teaching Opportunities
Fellows have ample opportunities for teaching residents and medical
students in the clinical setting. They also participate in morning
report and the weekly chief's conference while on hospital service.
In addition, they are assigned to give one noontime lecture to the
residents per year. During their third year, the fellows present
their research at pediatric grand rounds/research conference.
Evaluation
At the end of each rotation, the faculty completes written evaluations
for each fellow. Faculty are encouraged to discuss these evaluations
directly with the fellow. Fellows meet informally with the program
director each month to monitor progress and discuss any programmatic
issues of interest to the fellow. In addition, fellows meet with
the program director twice yearly in a more formal meeting to go
over faculty evaluations, to review short-term and long-term goals,
and to address any areas of concern that the fellow or program director
may have. The fellow meets on the same frequency with his/her research
mentor to discuss the progress of the research project.
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