Clinical Infectious Disease

Catalog description

The Clinical Infectious Diseases elective offers an exciting opportunity for the student to participate in consultations on a variety of infectious disease problems including general medical or surgical patients, immune compromised hosts, trauma victims, and patients with hospital acquired infections. New consultations and follow-up visits of the patients assigned to the student are performed each morning. Afternoon rounds are made with the attending physician to whom patients are presented, problems are discussed on a didactic basis, and patients are seen at the bedside. Regular teaching sessions with the faculty of the division of Infectious Diseases are scheduled separately; these review a series of common infectious diseases topics and Microbiology Lab Rounds are incorporated throughout the rotation. Weekly conferences include Journal Club, Clinical Infectious Diseases Conference, Research Infectious Diseases Conference, and Internal Medicine Grand Rounds. The emphasis during the clinical elective is on the pathophysiology of infectious diseases and the host.