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Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Fellowship Program Curriculum
Objectives/ Specific Skills
- To be thoroughly trained in the clinical practice of pediatric infectious diseases and be able to independently assess and appropriately manage infectious diseases problems commonly seen in children.
- To develop a research project. This will involve the acquisition of skills to ask pertinent questions; independently design appropriate experiments, analyze data, and use experimental data to answer original questions.
- To learn diagnostic microbiology and its application to pediatric infectious diseases.
- To develop the skills to be a competent teacher of Pediatric Infectious Diseases to practitioners and trainees of all levels.
- To fulfill the requirements for eligibility for the subspecialty board exam.
Specific skills include:
- Competence and interpretation of stains of primary clinical material and laboratory isolates.
- Working knowledge and interpretation of routine and specialized microbiological procedures.
- Working knowledge and interpretation of the pathology of infectious diseases.
- Use and interpretation of diagnostic tests and procedures.
- emphasis on cost efficiency
- Clinical competence in the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases (inpatient and outpatient).
- Includes access to and interpretation of medical literature.
- Includes consideration of clinical trials and experimental therapeutics.
- Principles of infection control and epidemiology.
- Principles of antimicrobial therapeutics, resistance mechanisms, adverse drug reactions, and epidemiological trends.
- Management and use of intravenous catheters and other indwelling medical devices.
- Primary care of HIV infection.
- Interpretation of medial literature and basic statistical analysis.
- Fundamentals of medical investigation, either clinical or laboratory based
- study design and implementation
- problem solving
- collation and interpretation of results
- writing and publishing experimental results
- ethics in scientific research
- grant writing and accessing external funding sources
- Proficiency as a consultant
- effective communication with physicians and patients
- educational strategies
- effective coordinator of consultants and consensus building
- ethics of medical care
- Academic skills
- public speaking
- design and implementation of presentations (oral and written)
- educational strategies
- audiovisual skills: photography, computer graphics
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