Our required two-year training program is designed to offer the fellow comprehensive clinical training experiences and flexible research opportunities.
The first year of fellowship training is a clinical year divided into 13 four-week blocks. During this year the fellows spends the majority of time on clinical consultation services, including General ID-HIV, Transplant ID (including Solid Organ Transplant and Bone Marrow Transplant/Oncology Service) and Inpatient HIV Service.
- Three blocks on the Mount Sinai General ID-HIV consultation service
- Three blocks on the Elmhurst ID consultation service
- Four blocks on the Mount Sinai Transplant ID consultation service
- Two blocks on the Mount Sinai Inpatient HIV medicine service
- One block of Clinical Microbiology Laboratory training
The second year of fellowship is primarily a research year. Fellows interested in additional training in transplant infectious diseases have the option to complete our new Transplant Infectious Disease (TID) Track during their second year. The curriculum for this track is described separately below.
- One block on the Mount Sinai Inpatient HIV medicine service
- One block of Clinical Rotations (Clinical Rotations include: General ID-HIV service, Outpatient ID Clinic at Elmhurst, STI/PrEP/PEP Clinic at Elmhurst)
- Eleven blocks of Research
Each fellow has a weekly continuity clinic at either Mount Sinai or Elmhurst Hospital for the entirety of the two-year fellowship. Fellows learn infection prevention/hospital epidemiology and antimicrobial stewardship throughout their fellowship and will also rotate for a total of four weeks with our Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and Infection Prevention/Hospital Epidemiology teams. All fellows will be given guidance and opportunity to pursue scholarly projects during their training. During their first year of fellowship, fellows are assigned a faculty advisor to help with career development and to discuss the fellow’s clinical and research interests. Fellows will also attend quarterly research meetings as a part of their core lecture series; these meetings have been designed to help first year fellows identify an area of interest, formulate a research question, and develop a study design and to allow second year fellows to present their research and receive feedback.
Potential areas for scholarly activity for fellows at Mount Sinai include but are not limited to:
- Antimicrobial stewardship and antibiotic resistance
- Clinical and translational research including behavioral, epidemiology, genomics and interventional trials
- HIV laboratory research including pathogenesis, therapeutics and vaccine development
- Host pathogen interactions
- Infection control & prevention and hospital epidemiology
- Molecular diagnostics and epidemiology
- Transplant infectious disease
- Virology including coronavirus (SARS CoV2), CMV, flaviviruses, influenza, hepatitis
Fellows will also gain experience in quality improvement projects during their fellowship and will be able to pursue activities in medical education with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, both in the classroom and in the clinical settings. Fellows have the option of a third year of fellowship which would be fully dedicated to research if this is in line with their career path.
Fellows have the option of a third year of fellowship which would be fully dedicated to research if this is in line with their career path.
The Transplant Infectious Diseases (TID) track is a training path available to second- year Mount Sinai Hospital ID fellows who are interested in a career in transplant infectious diseases. The TID track is an opportunity for focused clinical and research experience with the immunosuppressed host and has the following components.The Transplant Infectious Disease (TID) Track is an optional training path for fellows interested in a career in transplant infectious diseases.
Clinical component
Inpatient Fellows on the TID track will spend a minimum of two 4-week blocks on Solid Organ Transplant ID and two 4-week blocks on BMT/Oncology ID consult services during their second year of fellowship training. The track fellows function as the senior fellow when on the inpatient service and in addition to seeing patients, have the opportunity to participate in teaching for the junior MSH and visiting fellows.
Ambulatory: The TID track fellows see outpatients at the Recanti-Miller transplant institute, Cardiology VAD clinic, the General ID/Transplant ID clinic, and at the Mount Sinai Respiratory Institute. The track fellows will attend one half-day session per week in transplant clinics except when they are on an inpatient consult service.
Research component: The TID track fellow will be required to participate in scholarly projects related to transplant infectious diseases under guidance of a dedicated mentor from among the transplant ID faculty. The fellows are expected to present their scholarly work at the end of their second-year of fellowship, to submit an abstract to a relevant national or international meeting and prepare a manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed medical journal. Track fellows are also required to participate in transplant focused educational activities including the weekly case discussion meeting and monthly TID academic hour. Track fellows also have the opportunity to attend the American Society of Transplant (AST) Fellows Symposium held annually.
Supervision: This track has been developed by Dr. Sarah Taimur, Director of the Transplant ID Fellowship Track, and Dr. Meenakshi Rana, Director of Transplant ID. Fellows on this track mentored by Dr. Taimur and Dr. Rana and will be directly supervised by our Transplant ID faculty when on the TID services. Call schedule: Fellows selected for the TID track will not be required to do any additional weekday or weekend call aside from the call days assigned to them as part of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Infectious Disease Fellowship.