Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Infectious Diseases (Minnesota)

Description

Students work directly with the consultant and fellow assigned to the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Service at Saint Marys Hospital and at Mayo's main outpatient building, evaluating and managing a variety of infections in both the inpatient and outpatient setting.

Specific goals

1. Increase knowledge of the clinical and epidemiological findings associated with infectious diseases in infants, children and adolescents.
2. Gain experience in diagnosing and managing infectious diseases.
3. Review and gain experience in the use of antimicrobial agents.
4. Correlate clinical infectious disease problems on the pediatric wards and intensive care units with microbiological findings in the laboratory.
5. Apply basic immunology to the understanding of congenital and acquired abnormalities in the infected, compromised patient.
6. Stimulate independent thinking and self-directed learning.
7. Have opportunities to help solve problems in infectious diseases using the medical literature.
8. Have opportunities to attend conferences, seminars and teaching rounds in microbiology and infectious diseases.

Activity outline

Students are an integral part of the clinical team in pediatric infectious diseases. They have the opportunity to evaluate patients with suspected or proven infections, develop a differential diagnosis, and plan for laboratory tests and management. Students present patients to the staff consultant and follow up with patients on the hospital ward and in the outpatient clinic. Relevant journal articles are given to each student.

Clinical microbiology rounds provide an opportunity for students to become familiar with laboratory techniques used in diagnosing infections of bacterial, mycobacterial, fungal, viral and parasitic etiology. Other special teaching conferences and seminars also are available.

Conference Schedule

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8 a.m. Organ Transplantation Conference 1:30 p.m. Clinical Microbiology Teaching Rounds	8 a.m. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Teaching Rounds 1:30 p.m. Clinical Microbiology Teaching Rounds	7:30 a.m. Bone Marrow Transplantation Conference 1:30 p.m. Clinical Microbiology Teaching Rounds	8 a.m. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Teaching Rounds 12:30 p.m. Pediatric Seminar	7:45 a.m. Pediatric Grand Rounds 8:45 a.m. Pediatric Infectious Diseases Teaching Rounds 1:30 p.m. Clinical Microbiology Teaching Rounds

Method of evaluation

Student evaluation is based on overall clinical performance, attendance at conferences and teaching rounds, the completion of reading assignments and a case-based oral examination.

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