Clinical Rotation Description

General Infectious Diseases Inpatient Consultation Service (GenID)

During this formative rotation, fellows will lead the GenID consultation service in a quaternary care hospital.  Fellows will receive extensive experience in managing infections in all kinds of settings including ICUs, patients with cancer/malignancy, sick travelers, people with advanced HIV, pregnant people, surgical patients, orthopedic infections, and trauma.

Immunocompromised Host Inpatient Consultation Service (ICH)

At least half of fellows’ inpatient clinical experience will be centered on the care of people with immunocompromising conditions.  On the ICH service, fellows will care for patients with active hematologic malignancies as well as bone marrow and solid organ transplants.  Solid organ transplants performed at UChicago Medicine include heart, lung, kidney, liver, and pancreas.

Fellow Continuity Clinic

Each fellow will be assigned to a single supervising attending for their longitudinal outpatient clinic. The majority of patients seen in the clinic will be living with HIV and fellows will have the opportunities to care of patients with other chronic infections as well.   In addition, fellows will see ambulatory patients with a wide variety of infectious presentation or patients referred for prevention of infectious diseases, such as traveler’s prophylaxis and HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). There is also plenty of exposure with home IV antibiotic therapy and other home-based care for patients with infectious diseases.

Pediatric Infectious Diseases Rotation

Although the training for infectious diseases prepares specialists primarily for care of adult infectious diseases, there will also be training in pediatric infectious diseases. Each fellow will rotate for one month on the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Consultation service. Fellows will get further instruction in pediatric infectious diseases case conferences.

Clinical Microbiology

Every fellow will rotate in the Clinical Microbiology Lab at The University of Chicago. The facilities include aerobic and anaerobic bacteriology, mycology, mycobacteriology, virology, and parasitology. The clinical microbiology laboratories have experience in training both pathology and infectious diseases trainees. In addition to hands-on lab work, there will be formal instruction from the lab supervisors and lab directors in each of these areas.

Stewardship and Infection Control

All fellows will complete a four week rotation in Antibiotic Stewardship & Infection Control. In addition to didactic teaching in hospital epidemiology and infection control, fellows will interact with infection control practitioners as part of their patient care responsibilities. This rotation will also integrate the IDSA Antimicrobial Stewardship Curriculum for ID Fellows which is designed to provide ID fellows with a foundation in antimicrobial stewardship, regardless of their ultimate career plans.

Global Health Programs

Faculty members of the Section of Infectious Diseases have participated in global infectious disease programs in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central and South America since 2002. Current projects include: