Infectious Diseases Clinical Fellowship Second and Third Years

On this page: Overview | Research | Continuity Clinic | Compensations | Research Training | Mentoring

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NIH Clinical Center Building

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Overview

The second and third years include clinical and/or bench projects under the direct supervision of faculty mentors.

Research

  • We train academic infectious disease (ID) physicians who will be prepared for careers involving clinical, basic, or translational research after the completion of their fellowship
  • We offer two funded years of research with an option for additional years to continue work on their projects
  • We provide a myriad of translational, bench and clinical trial research opportunities within NIAID laboratories from which a fellow can choose.
  • Additional Clinical Research Training Opportunities

Continuity Clinic

Weekly infectious diseases clinics

  • Second year clinic is held at either George Washington University Hospital or Washington Hospital Center
  • Dynamic urban clinics to further solidify HIV knowledge
  • Second year fellows see a high volume of patients and a great diversity of cases
  • Precepted by full-time faculty

Compensations

Board Review Course - All fellows have the sponsored opportunity to attend in their second and third year.

Infectious Diseases Board Certification Exam - We will reimburse fellows who successfully complete their ID board certification exam

IDSA conference - Each fellow is funded to go to one national meeting in their second year.

In addition to the above scheduled weekly conferences/lectures, there are weekly teaching conferences centered on topics relevant to the NIAID inpatient ward, HIV clinic, and parasitology service. Additional clinical talks include the weekly NIAID Grand Rounds; the weekly NIH Clinical Center Grand Rounds; and the monthly meeting of the Greater Washington Infectious Disease Society (GWIDS), in which all infectious diseases programs of the metropolitan Washington, DC, area rotate in presenting their more interesting cases. Numerous other conferences and didactic lectures are offered on a wide range of research and clinical subjects daily at NIH.

Research Training

Second and third years focus on a research project, under the direction of a faculty research mentor, allowing fellows to take advantage of the staggering breadth of research opportunities at NIH, including collaborative projects both within NIH and around the world.

Mentoring

Research Mentoring

  • Fellows consult individually with the laboratory Chiefs within NIAID to meet the potential mentors
  • Fellows choose a research mentor by springtime of their first year

Career Mentors

Each fellow selects a career mentor from among the ID faculty, someone who is not involved with the fellow’s research area. The fellow and mentor meet and discuss the fellow’s career trajectory, including grant-writing possibilities and future job options.

ID Fellow Research Projects

Examples

  • One Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Part 2
    An Exploration of Immunity Against Pandemic Potential Influenza
  • A Respiratory Infection Computable Phenotype for Genomic and Phenomic Discovery
  • Safety and efficacy of a monoclonal antibody against malaria in Mali
  • Selectivity of NDH-2 inhibitors for mycobacterial vs human NDH-2s
  • Using cell-free DNA methylation to detect HHV8-related pathologies
  • Characterizing the inflammatory milieu of subarachnoid neurocysticercosis
  • Helicobacter pylori and the Esophageal String Test
  • Pvs230D1-EPA/Matrix-M: Phase 1 evaluation of a transmission blocking vaccine for Plasmodium vivax
  • Lab of Malaria Immunology and Vaccinology - Focus on Plasmodium vivax
  • Phase 2 Randomized, Double-blind, Controlled Study of Pfs230D1 with R21 in Matrix-M1 for Interruption of Malaria Transmission
  • A novel radiotracer used for PET imaging to detect invasive aspergillosis and mucormycosis in vivo
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