Curriculum Schedule

Week of Month	Format		Notes
1	Case Conference	16:30-18:00
2	Fellow’s Education Conference	16:30-17:15	Fellows rotate quarterly Off service fellows present (4/year) Attendings provide cases + prep Q’s
	Case Conference	17:15-18:00
3	Case Conference	16:30-18:00
4	Even Months: Journal Club	16:30-17:00	Fellows rotate quarterly Off service fellows present (4/year) – Jounral Club (2/year) – Case Presentation (2/year) Attendings back-up for JC or case
	Odd Months: Fellow’s Case Presentation
	Case Conference	17:00-18:00
5 (N=~5 per year)	Guest Speaker	16:30-17:15	Fellowship director to arrange speakers
	Case Conference	17:15-18:00

 

Curriculum: Fellow’s Education Conference

Fellow’s Education Conference:

• 2nd Thursday of each month (12/year)
• 45 minutes (16:30-17:15)
• Off-service fellows rotate quarterly (4/year/fellow)
• Topics rotate across 3 years (36 total)
• Some topics may repeat on annual basis
• Self-directed, yet precepted, board review series
• Rotor to assign Red Book chapters, Long textbook chapters, or other materials
• Fellow presents overview of knowledge acquired (~30 minutes)
• All fellows expected to read chapters prior to conference
• Attendings to provide illustrative cases
• ID PREP review questions at end

Rotating Curriculum

Journal Club:

• 4th Thursday of month (even months, 6 per year)
• Off-service fellows rotate quarterly (2/year/fellow)
• Pair with attending to select 1-2 articles
• Review article and address clinical implications
• Formal PowerPoint presentation to the group (including strengths/weaknesses/take home points)
• Field questions at the end

Fellow’s Case Presentation:

• 4th Thursday of month (odd months, 6 per year)
• Off-service fellows rotate quarterly (2/year/fellow)
• Pair with attending who followed patient
• In depth case presentation with review of the diagnosis (including primary literature)
• Formal PowerPoint presentation to the group
• Field questions at the end

Guest Speakers:

• 5th Thursday of month (~5 per year)
• 15 topics across 3 years
• Fellowship Director to arrange speakers
• Topics germane to ABP content, but outside typical clinical service
• May include Grand Round Speakers as well

Example topics:

• Immunology Overview
• Rheumatology Overview
• Oncology Overview
• Kawasaki’s Disease
• HIV
• Bacterial Pathogenesis
• Antimicrobial Stewardship/Infection Control
• Microbiome
• Public Health and ID
• Tropical Medicine
• Clinical Trial Research
• Vaccine Development

ID Meetings/Conferences

• Local Meetings at UC San Diego/Rady Children’s: Encourage attendance based on interests
• Infection Control Meeting
• Antimicrobial Stewardship Meetings
• International Morning Report (first Wednesday of month 7:30-8:30)
• AAP Chapter Meetings
• National Meetings: Program to support attendance (1/year)
• IDSA
• PIDS/St. Jude
• SHEA
• American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
• Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH)
• PAS
• AAP