Training for the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai takes place over the course of three years. The first year of training is dedicated mostly to our clinical inpatient consultation service. The second and third years are focused on research activities. You may also choose elective rotations based on your interests.
Typically, fellows spend:
- 12 months consulting on inpatient pediatric infectious diseases cases
- One half-day a week for 12 months in our outpatient general pediatric infectious disease practice, spread throughout the duration of training
- One month rotating through our Clinical Microbiology laboratory
- One month on an Infection Prevention and Antibiotic Stewardship rotation, working with Adult and Pediatric Infectious Disease faculty, pharmacists, microbiologists and infection prevention practitioners
- 20 months conducting research
Fellows are also expected to attend our regularly scheduled conferences and educational activities. These activities include:
- Weekly pediatric infectious diseases meeting (half of the meeting is a case conference and the other half either a Journal Club, a topic presentation, or a board question practice session)
- Weekly discussion of Red-Book topics
- Bi-weekly microbiology rounds
- Weekly adult and pediatric ID case presentations, and weekly pediatric Grand Rounds
- Research seminars
- Core curriculum on scholarly activities, jointly with other pediatric fellowships
Core faculty from our Division, and faculty from other Departments who we work closely with and have recently served as mentors for our fellows include: