Our first-year curriculum focuses on immersing fellows in core clinical rotations and building foundational experiences in infectious diseases. Fellows spend seven months on the consultation service and engage in specialized rotations, including transplant, infection prevention, microbiology laboratory, and rotations at the outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy clinic. Six weeks are dedicated to research planning. Throughout the first year, fellows maintain a weekly HIV continuity clinic and receive ongoing career development guidance through formal mentoring meetings.

Our second year emphasizes advanced clinical expertise and scholarly project completion. Fellows divide their time, with five months on the inpatient consult service, four months conducting research, and two months on the transplant service. They continue their weekly HIV continuity clinic and take on teaching responsibilities for Internal Medicine residents. With continued faculty mentoring, fellows work toward completing their scholarly activities with the goal of a professional conference presentation and publication.

As a fellow in the Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West, you will participate in the following rotations.

Inpatient Consultation Service

During these rotations, you will work alongside our Infectious Diseases faculty and clinical pharmacy to provide recommendations on antibiotic use via the Antibiotic Stewardship Program. At both hospital sites, you will work with patients who are immunocompromised, critically ill, and/or have a wide range of postoperative complications, including device-related infections.

Transplant Rotation

To help you gain in-depth experience in both solid and bone marrow transplant infectious diseases, you will rotate at The Mount Sinai Hospital. The Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases services consult on patients following liver, kidney, heart, and small bowel transplant; the Bone Marrow Transplant/Oncology Infectious Diseases service sees patients with malignancies, as well as those undergoing autologous and allogenic stem cell transplants, and solid oncology patients. During this rotation, you will learn the infectious diseases associated with various types of transplants, as well as sophisticated methods for prevention and treatment of such infections.

Microbiology Rotation

During your month within the microbiology lab, you will receive training in diagnostic clinical microbiology and virology, with an emphasis on susceptibility testing and its interpretation, as well as the detection of antimicrobial resistance. We place particular emphasis on methods for the rapid pathogen identification of pathogens, and advanced molecular diagnostic techniques. Throughout the year, on a weekly basis, you may also attend virtual "Plate Rounds."

Infection Prevention Rotation and Antimicrobial Stewardship

For your one-month infection prevention rotation, you will engage in the routine activities of infection prevention practitioners, including infection surveillance, patient isolation, and outbreak investigation. You will also participate in special projects carried out by the infection prevention team and complete a certification course from The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, which explores health care epidemiology, infection prevention, and antimicrobial stewardship.

As a second-year fellow, you will additionally attend Antimicrobial Stewardship meetings at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West, where you will complete the Antimicrobial Stewardship Curriculum.

Our program leaders are dedicated to helping you choose investigative projects aligned with your own career goals. This begins with your exposure to a dynamic range of investigative projects across the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. During the first year of the program, six weeks are set aside for research planning and project development with faculty mentors. In your second year, you will spend four months conducting research and engaging in quality improvement projects.

We also encourage you to complete one or more scholarly endeavors which can be presented at internal, local, or national meetings, and which yield one or more abstract presentations or papers. To prepare, you will be given basic formal research education, complete several online research training courses, and meet regularly with faculty mentors.

In addition to clinical rotations and research, you will engage in conferences and didactic sessions, including the Core Lecture Series, the Mandell Club, case conferences, and wellness sessions. You are also encouraged to attend twice monthly lectures on HIV care and prevention sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Medicine and the New York State Department of Health, AIDS Institute’s Clinical Education Initiative

On a monthly basis, you are additionally expected to engage in journal club. As a second-year fellow, you are expected to regularly present project updates and research findings.