First-year Fellows devote the year to performing Infectious Diseases Consultations under the guidance of the Attending Staff. Consultations are made at Kings County Hospital Center, University Hospital of Brooklyn, Brooklyn Veteran's Administration Hospital and Brookdale Hospital Medical Center. Consultations are made on all adult services, not just on the Medical Service. A remarkably broad array of unusual, as well as common diseases, are encountered, providing the Fellow with a broad base of experience in the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases problems such as bacterial pneumonia, meningitis, endocarditis, and tuberculosis, as well as fungal and parasitic diseases, and opportunistic infections. Each Fellow sees about 40 new patients in consultation each month. Each Fellow follows a panel of HIV-infected patients during a weekly half-day continuity clinic during the entire fellowship.
The second-year of Fellowship training is devoted primarily to research. At the present time, our major areas of interest include hospital epidemiology, sexually transmitted diseases, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, chlamydial infections, multi-drug resistant bacteria, and mechanisms of antibiotic resistance. The second year also includes a one-month rotation through Pediatric Infectious Diseases, one afternoon each week in our Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic and a month serving as an Attending Physician supervising one of the first-year fellows under the guidance of a faculty member. An elective rotation at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is also available.
Close cooperation exists between the Infectious Diseases Division and the Department of Pathology, which maintains active diagnostic laboratories including bacteriology, virology, mycology, mycobacteriology, and parasitology laboratories. These laboratories, as well as an antibiotic laboratory, and a sexually transmitted diseases laboratory operated by the Infectious Diseases Division are available to the Fellows for clinical, teaching, and research activities.
Our regular conference schedule includes a weekly clinical conference with discussion of two interesting and challenging cases that are being followed on the consultation service, a weekly didactic session for fellows covering basic infectious diseases topics, a weekly research seminar covering a wide range of infectious diseases topics of clinical and research interest, and two journal clubs.
We participate in ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service). You can go online to their website at www.aamc.org/eras. Applications should be submitted at least 15 months before the beginning of the Fellowship. We require three letters of recommendation. One letter should come from your Internal Medicine Residency Program Director. Letters and other documents should be sent to the ERAS Fellowships Document Office at 3624 Market Street, 14th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19604-2685.
We also participate in the NRMP (National Residency Matching Program) for Subspecialty Fellows. Their website is www.nrmp.org.
William M. McCormack, M.D.
Chief, Infectious Diseases Division
Box 56
State University of New York
Downstate Medical Center
450 Clarkson Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11203
Telephone: (718) 270-1432
Fax: (718)-270-4123
Email: william.mccormack@downstate.edu
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