About the Program

The Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine/ UC Health aims to train outstanding, compassionate and thorough infectious diseases clinicians and clinician-investigators who will be leaders in their field and advocates for public health.

We provide a two or three year fellowship of subspecialty training in clinical infectious diseases and research.  While becoming excellent clinicians in two years, our graduates will also be well-schooled in research methodologies.  For those interested in pursuing a career in academic medicine, we offer an additional third year of training with further protected research time. 

Fellowship Training Consists of:

• Inpatient Infectious Diseases Consults at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center (UCMC) and Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC)
• Outpatient Infectious Diseases Consults and Clinics (UCMC and VAMC)
• HIV Continuity Care Clinics
• Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT)
• Transplant Infectious Diseases (Solid Organ and Bone Marrow Transplants)
• Infection Control and Prevention
• Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Diagnostic Microbiology (Bacteriology, Virology, Mycology and Parasitology
• Clinical, Translational and Laboratory Research
• Certificate in Clinical and Translational Research
  

Active Participation in Conferences:

• Infectious Diseases Clinical Case Conferences
• Department and Division Research Conferences
• Infectious Diseases Journal Club
• Combined Clinical Conferences with Pediatric ID Colleagues
• Didactic and Board Review Course
• Infection Control Committees (UCMC and VAMC)
• Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee
• Microbiology Steering Committee

Third Year of Fellowship:

Fellows interested in academic medicine are encouraged to consider a third year of fellowship with additional protected time for research and scholarly activity in a certain subspecialty of ID.  Recent fellows who have completed this funded year of fellowship have focused on areas of Transplant Infectious Diseases, Atypical Mycobacterial Diseases, Bioinformatics and HIV/Hepatitis C Co-Infection, among others.

Additionally, for those interested in Critical Care Medicine, the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine/UC Health also offers a one-year fellowship in Critical Care after completion of a fellowship in certain Internal Medicine specialties, such as ID.