Infectious Disease

Catalog description

This elective will provide an excellent learning experience in clinical infectious diseases. Upon completion of the elective, the student will be familiar with common infectious disease syndromes. The ID elective will expose the student to varied aspects of the practice of infectious diseases by integrating the student into the inpatient consultation service and the outpatient clinic. The student will be required to independently assess patients and to present them to either the infectious disease fellow or attending physician. Consequently, students will learn infectious disease topics as well as develop skills for interviewing patients, writing H&Ps, developing care plans, presenting patient cases, and writing progress notes. The student will be an integral contributing member of the team, thereby allowing him/her to become accustomed to the team-oriented approach to patient care utilized during internship and residency. The student will be expected to interact professionally not only with our team but also with the referring physicians and nursing/ancillary staff during care of the patient.