Infectious Diseases Fellowship

Infectious Diseases Fellowship

Fellowship Curriculum

All of our fellows meet the American Board of Pediatrics specified 12-months of clinical experience, which includes time in inpatient and outpatient consultative medicine, diagnostic infectious diseases laboratory and infection control.

This is generally weighted with six to seven months in the first year, two to three months in the second year, and two months in the third year. Cincinnati Children’s is uniquely positioned as both a community-based hospital with a large tri-state catchment area that provides extensive exposure to the more common infectious disease cases (pneumonia, bacteremia, osteomyelitis, meningitis, etc.) as well as an internationally known referral site for complicated malignancies and immunodeficiencies providing exposure to both infections from international travelers (tuberculosis, malaria, hantavirus, etc.) and rare pathogen infections (uncommon mold infection, multidrug resistant bacterial and viral infections).

In addition to clinical skills, trainees must develop a scholarly focus during their first year, which is further developed during the second and third years. Additional one to two years of training for research may be granted for selected candidates.

Lectures and Conferences

• Fellows coordinate daily educational activities for residents and students rotating on Infectious Diseases.
• The on-service fellow presents interesting cases at weekly ID Clinical Conference while one of the off-service fellows provides a brief didactic/timely topic presentation.
• Fellows will present their research once a year at the ID Divisional Advances in Research (ID AIR) conference.
• Other academic conferences include fellow-led Red Book/Board Review, weekly combined didactic lectures from both Cincinnati Children’s ID and University of Cincinnati ID faculty, and monthly combined Adult/Pediatric ID conference.

Program Overview