We also encourage our fellows to gain clinical trials experience by participating in ongoing studies of antimicrobials and vaccinations. Fellows are expected to participate in educating medical students, interns and residents rotating through the infectious diseases service.
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Senior Staff Directory. Funding Opportunities. Conference Presentations. All fellows attend a 4-day course in Mycobacterial Diseases, and 9 hours of instruction in Infection Control. During the 2nd year, fellows attend national scientific meetings and courses. This clinic provides continuity care for a panel of HIV patients, general ID outpatient consultation, and hospital follow up visits.
Fellows will maintain the same clinic for the duration of their fellowship. Denver Health Hospital is a bed city hospital located 10 miles west of the School of Medicine. It serves the medical needs of indigent patients living in the city and county of Denver.
There is a large immigrant population, principally from Latin America and Southeast Asia. Many of the Infectious Diseases faculty are employed by Denver Health and Hospitals, which addresses public health issues for the county, including immunizations, STD control and TB control.
The Infectious Diseases inpatient service typically follows patients at any given time. Fellows, in conjunction with residents and students, are responsible for the initial consultations and follow-up. Fellows attend combined I. Fellows receive 1 week of training at this clinic, as well as TB clinic training in the Public Health Section.
The referral base encompasses several states and the patient population is predominantly middle-aged males. Inpatient consultations are typically for classical infectious diseases problems, such as prosthetic valve endocarditis, nosocomial pneumonia, complicated urinary tract infections, etc. An active Infection Control program addresses nosocomially acquired infections. National Jewish Health is a national referral hospital that specializes in the care of patients with respiratory diseases.
Three populations of patients are seen at this hospital: chronic respiratory diseases, immunodeficiency diseases non-HIV , and mycobacterial infections. Fellows attend an outpatient clinic once a week to see consultations. In addition, fellows primarily manage inpatients on the Mycobacterial Diseases service and assist in the management of these patients in conjunction with faculty and staff from the ID Pharmacokinetics Laboratory, Clinical Mycobacteriology and Bacteriology Laboratories.
Fellows assist in directing the weekly Mycobacterial Diseases Case Conference, present interesting cases to the Second Opinion Conference, and may attend Clinical Immunology Case Conference, at which patients with congenital and acquired immunodeficiency diseases non-HIV are presented.
University of Colorado Hospital is the central institution affiliated with the School of Medicine and the primary teaching hospital for the training program. It is an acute care hospital, which also serves as a tertiary referral center for Colorado and surrounding states. There is an active emergency room, medical and surgical intensive care units, burn unit, bone marrow transplant unit, and solid organ transplant program.
The patient population is heterogeneous and consists of indigent patients living outside of Denver County, referral cases, and patients receiving their primary medical care in the busy outpatient clinics. The Infectious Diseases service follows approximately patients at any given time. Fellows, residents and students see hospitalized patients in consultation, under the supervision of attending faculty.
Microbiology rounds occur three times a week at UCH.
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